What should I do.

[MBrown]

I have another GB of memory sitting around here. I took it out, because I have a winchester and if you use 4 sticks it slows the memory down to 333. So I have 2 sticks of 512 at 400. Im im wanting to get 2GB in my system but its so friggen expensive. So I was just wondering. Is running 4 sticks of 512 at 333 that much worse than running 2 sticks of 512 at 400?

 

[pkme2]

So you're saying that buying 2 sticks of 1GB RAM is too expensive than 2 sticks 512MB RAM?
If you get 2 more 512MB DDR400 sticks and your system reads them as 333, why would you do that? I believe you gain one way but give it back another, so what was your question?
IMO, you're not getting better, but getting a slight improvement. At today's prices, WHY? Get the 2 sticks of 1GB.
Samsung
Corsair

 

[MBrown]

Originally posted by: pkme2
So you're saying that buying 2 sticks of 1GB RAM is too expensive than 2 sticks 512MB RAM?
If you get 2 more 512MB DDR400 sticks and your system reads them as 333, why would you do that? I believe you gain one way but give it back another, so what was your question?
IMO, you're not getting better, but getting a slight improvement. At today's prices, WHY? Get the 2 sticks of 1GB.
Samsung
Corsair

I already have another 2 sticks of 512 that I bought a while ago but I took them out my PC for this reason.

 

[akshayt]

Me too i kind of same situation. Have 2 X 1GB and 2 X 512MB where both are of different brands.

333 is not a problem because I anyways use 333 divider and my overclock makes it 399 anyway.

The thing is I am not sure whether A64 likes 4 RAM modules.

 

[stevty2889]

I would go ahead and use the 4 sticks of ram anyway, assuming you are running programs that are using more than 1gb of memory. A lot of newer games run better with 2gb of ram. While running at 333mhz 2T will give you a slight performance hit, it will be outweighed by the performance improvement you get by the increased amount of ram. 333mhz 2T ram is still way way faster than hitting the page file on your hard drive.

 

[MBrown]

I just put them in. Well worth it.