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#21 Guest_HAL9000_*
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Posted 09 September 2004 - 10:07 PM
BTW, my PC came with 512 MB DDR 333 ram. I'm going to add two 1 GB sticks of the same memory spec for future use. Any recommendations? My pc has 4 slots, capable of 4096 MB RAM
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Posted 09 September 2004 - 10:15 PM
are you sure just because it has 4 slots it supports 4 gigs. I have 4 slots, 2 are for ddr and 2 for sdram...... You should get a nice board for that amd64 then put a lotta memory in there. That'll be liek a great multipurpose station.
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Posted 09 September 2004 - 10:36 PM
2 for DDR and 2 for SDRAM? That's weird. Why would they do that? SDRAM is pretty much obsolete (except for old IBM thinkpads *drool*)
HAL9000, you should check if your motherboard supports it first. Even if it does, I don't recommend buying that much anyway.
DDR333 is already kind of old and 1gb sticks aren't exactly cheap. You're better just getting another 512mb stick. 1gb is a nice amount of RAM for now. Anything more is just wasted. Save your money for someone better.
Whatever you decide, go with Crucial. You can't go wrong with Crucial. 8)
HAL9000, you should check if your motherboard supports it first. Even if it does, I don't recommend buying that much anyway.
DDR333 is already kind of old and 1gb sticks aren't exactly cheap. You're better just getting another 512mb stick. 1gb is a nice amount of RAM for now. Anything more is just wasted. Save your money for someone better.
Whatever you decide, go with Crucial. You can't go wrong with Crucial. 8)
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Posted 09 September 2004 - 11:51 PM
My computer manufacturer lists my pc as having a 4 GB capacity. While I am not sure, i think I could put DDR400 sticks in, but I need to check.
In my home network, my PC is a server. Some will scan documents into searchable pdf's and tiff's and organize them in a database of some kind that can OCR them, and that particular program needs at least 2 GB to be effective. That is why I an going to get two 1 GB sticks to complement the two 256 MB sticks in my PC. I'm not concerned about latency, overclocking, I just want a stable DDR333 or DDR400 stick so I have more RAM than all of you :twisted:
Also, when I get Longhorn...eventually...i could possibly run it, but it may be hampered by a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 with the 800 MHz bus (since it has that bus I am not sure about memory speed, since it actually comes with a slower mem spec).
In my home network, my PC is a server. Some will scan documents into searchable pdf's and tiff's and organize them in a database of some kind that can OCR them, and that particular program needs at least 2 GB to be effective. That is why I an going to get two 1 GB sticks to complement the two 256 MB sticks in my PC. I'm not concerned about latency, overclocking, I just want a stable DDR333 or DDR400 stick so I have more RAM than all of you :twisted:
Also, when I get Longhorn...eventually...i could possibly run it, but it may be hampered by a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 with the 800 MHz bus (since it has that bus I am not sure about memory speed, since it actually comes with a slower mem spec).
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Posted 10 September 2004 - 12:16 AM
Doesnt look like longhorn is coming out for a while, maybe like 06. But on a 2.8 p4 it would be like running a xp on a pentium. I dont even know if it will run at all it will be meant for like 5 ghz cpu's.
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Posted 10 September 2004 - 12:39 AM
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In my home network, my PC is a server. Some will scan documents into searchable pdf's and tiff's and organize them in a database of some kind that can OCR them, and that particular program needs at least 2 GB to be effective. That is why I an going to get two 1 GB sticks to complement the two 256 MB sticks in my PC. I'm not concerned about latency, overclocking, I just want a stable DDR333 or DDR400 stick so I have more RAM than all of you :twisted:
Oh, I didn't know it was a server. Nevermind what I said then. Servers need all they can get. :wink:
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Posted 10 September 2004 - 08:49 AM
It isn't itself a server, but it has the functionality of such.
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Posted 10 September 2004 - 05:18 PM
Why are you going to waste your money on unnecessary memory?
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Posted 10 September 2004 - 07:09 PM
to be better than us:D. If i had the money i would buy 4 gigs, even if i didnt need it, i have nothing better to spend my money on.
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Posted 10 September 2004 - 07:41 PM
Spend your money on low latency Dual Channel DDR2. Such is perfect if you like to multi task; e.g. video editing, music, games...I usually run many programs at once, so it helps. Like a game, then i'm scanning, running some music, on the web, plus the other latent processes. I gig is enough. I also create movies on DVD, so it's great!
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Posted 10 September 2004 - 10:30 PM
I don't have a 915/925 chipset, Drugsummit, I have an ASUSTeK P4SD-LA MoBo, which is an 845 variant.
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Posted 11 September 2004 - 08:42 AM
Well you can get dual channel ddr1. I'm just saying; like when you turn 18 or something, whenever you wish to buy a pc...
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Posted 11 September 2004 - 11:29 AM
When I am that age, that is, college age, I'll probably have a kick-@$$ laptop and a good desktop, but probably a $1000 desktop that at the time will be fast, since my laptop would be my primary machine.
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Posted 11 September 2004 - 11:43 AM
labtops are to compact for me, they don't seem to interact well with linux either.
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