Adding more RAM

rixarena · 25 Jul 2009 at 01:37

This may be of interest to you http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=218304

You could try adding your RAM as suggested there and check the timings with those shown.

Slot 1: 512MB
Slot 2: 512MB
Slot 3: 1GB
Slot 4: --

manic111 · 25 Jul 2009 at 01:39

Anxiety86 said:
Does anyone know if I can put any in the purple slots?

Here it was it happening now.

I put the 1gb in the green slot and a 512mb in the green slot, all boots up fine and shows as 1.50gb of ram. Then I put the other in the 512mb slot and it dont see it?

I've never used an AMD board, but are you sure that the purple slots are actually RAM slots...

The other possibility is that when you add the third stick it requires too high a voltage for the mobo to handle at its current settings (although this is easily changed). Have you tried putting the 1GB stick in a purple slot alone, and not putting the 512mb sticks in? This will give us an indication of whether the purple slots work.

rixarena · 25 Jul 2009 at 01:43

manic111 said:
I've never used an AMD board, but are you sure that the purple slots are actually RAM slots...

You just made my night

Anxiety86 · 25 Jul 2009 at 02:00

Well Iput the 1gb in the purple on its own and no boot up. So I guess the only solution here is to buy another 1gb and put it in the green slots.

Ah well thanks everyone who put up with me

Anxiety86 · 30 Jul 2009 at 07:00

It's me again

Anyway can someone please look back at my specs and tell me what PSU power/watt I would need? I think mine is too low I am not sure...

RJC · 30 Jul 2009 at 07:22

200w psu would be more than enough to power your rig.

Anxiety86 · 30 Jul 2009 at 20:13

Hmmm what could make my WoW FPS better?

Could it be my cpu upgrading or my GFX?

teulk · 31 Jul 2009 at 05:50

This is taken from your Mobo specs

MSI Reminds You...
• Dual-channel DDR works ONLY in the 3 combinations listed in the table shown in the previous page.
• Please select the identical memory modules to install on the dual channel, and DO NOT install three memory modules on three DIMMs, or it may cause some failure.
• Always insert the memory modules into the GREEN slots first, and it is strongly recommended not to insert the memory modules into the PURPLE slots while the GREEN slots are left empty
• This mainboard DO NOT support the memory module installed with more than 18 pieces of IC (integrated circuit).
• The Maximum memory speed decreases when the following two memory combination is selected:
- Each channel is installed with two double-sided memory module
- Both DIMM1 and DIMM3 are installed with double-sided memory module
• Due to the South Bridge resource deployment, the system density will only be detected up to 3+ GB (not full 4GB) when each DIMM is installed with an 1GB memory module

MasterPlan1 · 31 Jul 2009 at 06:53

more RAM won't effect WoW's FPS that much, if any, but it will make it smoother - loading times, being able to deal with AoE slightly better, WoW is a memory intensive game as opposed to anything else.

cb_linus · 31 Jul 2009 at 09:24

MasterPlan1 said:
more RAM won't effect WoW's FPS that much [...] WoW is a memory intensive game as opposed to anything else.

That's a bit confusing

I thought it was more cpu intensive?

MasterPlan1 · 31 Jul 2009 at 11:22

cb_linus said:
That's a bit confusing I thought it was more cpu intensive?

No, it's RAM intensive, spunking more RAM over WoW will decrease loading time, reduce stuttering in heavy AoE situations (partially graphics too), I remember when I went from 1 to 4Gb, WoW was insanely fast at doing anything, places like IF AH for instance (this was way back in the day) became usable, it was insane prior to that. WoW doesn't even touch my CPU (~10% load accross 4 cores), but eats 2Gb of RAM.