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Originally posted by: drob
Just to be sure, under Vista 32bit, will i be better off with current 2x1gb + new 2x512mb or cornet 2x1gb + new 2x1gb? price deference are minor so best option price wise is getting 2x1gb more, however would i still have the benefits of dual channel even if the system sees only about 2/3 of actual ram?
Originally posted by: BlingBlingArsch
make it 8.
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
For what it's worth, my 4GB of memory shows up as 3326MB in 32-bit Vista. I don't think it's worth $200 to unlock that extra 600MB of memory.
Originally posted by: n7
3x1 GB or 3x2 GB, etc, work in flex mode or asyncronous dual channel on all current Intel chipsets, so you really lose very little performance from not having 2 or 4 dimms.
My suggestion for anyone is Vista x64 w/ 4 GB, or more if you want to spend money.
Makes for an insanely fast machine.
Originally posted by: Caminetto
Originally posted by: n7
3x1 GB or 3x2 GB, etc, work in flex mode or asyncronous dual channel on all current Intel chipsets, so you really lose very little performance from not having 2 or 4 dimms.
My suggestion for anyone is Vista x64 w/ 4 GB, or more if you want to spend money.
Makes for an insanely fast machine.
Seriously, do you really notice a difference in Vista 64 with 8 GB over 4 GB?
Originally posted by: bomax
I've read the article, but was wondering if anyone here has first hand experience. Plus 3GB seems so.... uneven.
Originally posted by: Caminetto
Originally posted by: n7
3x1 GB or 3x2 GB, etc, work in flex mode or asyncronous dual channel on all current Intel chipsets, so you really lose very little performance from not having 2 or 4 dimms.
My suggestion for anyone is Vista x64 w/ 4 GB, or more if you want to spend money.
Makes for an insanely fast machine.
Seriously, do you really notice a difference in Vista 64 with 8 GB over 4 GB?
Originally posted by: asdfqwertyuiop
<blockquote>quote:
Originally posted by: bomax
Ok... after several hours of reading, I have come to understand the issues here fairly well. From this point forward I assume other people understand as well, so I won't bother paraphrasing.
Since my video card is 512MB, I'm afraid that's really going to eat into the 4GB address space I have to work with. And since PAE is unreliable at this time, I am leaning towards the 3GB that crossrode an Anandtech are recommending. 2x1GB and 2x512MB.
I think this subject would be worthy of a dedicated article on Anandtech, as the issue is only going to come up more and more as RAM prices fall.
Please continue to post useful links as you come across them.</blockquote>
Not sure how well mixed sizes will OC. I have 4*1GB.
I also have a 512MB vcard. I get 2.93GB RAM available in Vista....