Remind me how Ram works again...

Skirrow · 13 Dec 2006 at 00:20

Sorry for the newbie question. I have an Abit NF7-S 2.0 with a 2800XP+ processor, out of date a know but that's another issue.

I currently have 512 meg PC3200 DDR ram, (2 sticks of 256).

I want to upgrade to a gig, can I just put in a stick of 512 in the third slot so I have 1x 512 and 2x 256?

Cheers,
Dave

FreeStream · 13 Dec 2006 at 08:25

Yes, the two 256mbs go on channel 1 (two slots together) and the 512mb goes into the single slot.

Defcon5 · 13 Dec 2006 at 09:03

Would that still run in dual channel?

steve258 · 13 Dec 2006 at 11:08

No it won't be running dual channel if you have 3 sticks of RAM.

But tbh dual channel doesn't make much difference at all on socket A.

Zefan · 13 Dec 2006 at 11:10

steve258 said:
But tbh dual channel doesn't make much difference at all on socket A.

Had a huge argument with a guy about this that just wouldn't believe me. Glad someone knows what they're talkin about

charltonfan1 · 13 Dec 2006 at 11:15

steve258 said:
No it won't be running dual channel if you have 3 sticks of RAM.

But tbh dual channel doesn't make much difference at all on socket A.

This board only has 3 RAM slots so it would run in dual channel with the suggested config. Makes little difference tho

Skirrow · 13 Dec 2006 at 13:44

Thanks guys, that's what I needed. Cheers for the info!

FreeStream · 13 Dec 2006 at 13:48

charltonfan1 said:
This board only has 3 RAM slots so it would run in dual channel with the suggested config. Makes little difference tho

aye it would.

512mb per channel.

postmanfw · 13 Dec 2006 at 17:38

Will work but will need to have same make of ram with same timings also for best chance.

Only makes about 10% differance though on socket A

Skirrow · 14 Dec 2006 at 10:55

Well, what do you know, I already had a gig of ram, just had one of 512 sicks in the wrong slot so it wasn't working! So when I plugged my new one in, all 3 slots were full and I now have 1.5gig.

I'm annoyed at myself for buying extra when I didn't really need it, but I must say that the boost from 512 to 1.5 gig is rather nice! Finally I can run the programs I need use for my work without waiting ages for them to open and close.