will a 2gb single stick of DDR2 memory hurt windows home server performance?

[KLC]

The title says it all. I'm assembling a home server PC that will use Windows Home Server. Fry's store special this week has an AMD 4850e CPU and Asus M3A76-CM motherboard for $100. The mb has integrated video, with shipping I'd pay $56 for the cpu and about $70 for the mb at Newegg.

They also have a single 2gb stick of Crucial-2GB-DDR2-PC6400-Memory for $20. The three sound perfect for a home server at a nice price. Single stick of memory is not as good as two matched sticks, right? But will that make a significant impact on server performance?

 

[dguy6789]

It shouldn't make much of a difference in performance.

 

[RebateMonger]

Unless you are doing things like ripping DVDs on it, 2 GB should be plenty. I have about six WHS servers that I manage, all with 512 MB of memory, and they fulfill their primary functions (backups and shared data storage) just fine.

 

[California Roll]

My single stick of 2gb on my WHS is overkill. It was spare ram I had leftover. If I was building a new WHS box and buying ram, I'd probably buy a 2gb stick anyways because it's so cheap. Using dual channels for WHS isn't necessary imo.

 

[KLC]

Thanks, I'm going to buy them tonight along with WHS software. I'm thinking of an Antec 300 case and an 80+ power supply, probably Seasonic 330W. Newegg has WD 1 tb drives right now for $95 and free shipping.