1veedo Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 My motherboard says "Supports 2 DIMM for DDR 400/333/266 memory up to 2GB" so does this mean it can only take 2G per slot or 2G total -- can I buy two 2G and have a total of 4 or am I limited to just 2G total. Also with the 400/333/266, is 400MHZ RAM much faster than 266? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 2G total. yeah 400 is much faster than 266 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Demosthenes- Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 Does more than a gig of RAM really do anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 well 2 gigs willoffer an improvement over one gig. but its only really worth it if you do very intensive stuff like simulation and gaming. its not as much as an improvement as you would notice from 512mb to 1 gig. 4gigs is only used by certain programs so isn't really worth getting unless your running a server or some all powerful simulator. no games support it yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 2GB total. 400 is the fastest and that is what you want to go for, no question! As for do you actually need 2GB? Depends on the cost and what you use your computer for. 1GB is normally enough. 1.5GB if you wanna give high performance games the extra boost, for a game which used that much RAM you'd need a damn good graphics card for. 2GB is generally overkill, IMO, for home users. But hey, if you're a heavy gamer or have loadsa spare cash go for it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1veedo Posted July 26, 2006 Author Share Posted July 26, 2006 400 is the fastest for DDR. DDR2 can go quite a bit faster than that. If you want to know why I need 2G, try playing Civ4 on any map larger than "tiny." 512 really doesn't cut it, despite what the box sais. With 2G though I'm also going to try to run my gentoo in RAM. It's 712MB compressed w/ sqash which leaves more than a gig free (still more than I have now). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marapets2 Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Oh right, that explains why my civ4 operated so slowly :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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