I originally had a 256MB Stick of PC133 Kingston Value Ram in my Asus A7V MB. Lately I stuck a 200GB HD in there and it has basically become a file server for my whole house. It started slowing down a lot, so I decided to put some more memory in there. I bought a 512MB PC133 Cas2 Stick of Crucial Memory the other day. I stuck the new stick in there with the other and tried setting the memory to the 7ns setting which sets it to 2-2-2. The machine booted fine, but after a few minutes and trying to play divx video it started giving me some file corruption error and then suddenly rebooted. So I figure at least the Kingston RAM cannot handle that kind of speed. So I set it back to the default which sets it to 3-3-3 and it was more stable but still rebooted on its own after about 30 minutes. So then I set the memory to some setting it has in there for 8ns memory which also sets it all to 3-3-3. I am not sure what the difference is but it seems stable this way.
Now my real question is, should I leave both sticks in there running at 3-3-3, or try to just run my machine with the one 512MB stick and run it at 2-2-2. What would give me better performance and extra 256MB of memory or faster but less memory. Any opinions, experience, suggestions are appreciated. Thanks
Now my real question is, should I leave both sticks in there running at 3-3-3, or try to just run my machine with the one 512MB stick and run it at 2-2-2. What would give me better performance and extra 256MB of memory or faster but less memory. Any opinions, experience, suggestions are appreciated. Thanks
