2x512Mb Generic or 1x1Gb Corsair?
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 - 1:15pm
I've got 2Gb RAM right now, 1x 1Gb Corsair and 2x512Mb from some generic brand. A friend gave me another pair of 2x512Mb, brand Aeon.
Now I was wondering which would be best: leave in the one Gb stick, or replace it with the 2x512Mb?
When working in pairs, RAM is faster they say, but hey! It's Corsair memory!
So there you have my conundrum. Any memory geniussessessssss in da house?
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I wouldnt think you would see much difference with mixed and matched memory. Probably the best thing to do is look at the timings on the three sets and throw out the slowest one...your memeory is only as fast as the slowest piece.
Warrior Asherr
Hunter Ghorin
noob question:
How can I "see" the timings exactly?
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cpuz will show you memory timings, but I dont know if it will display individual stick timings, or just the cumulative result.
easiest way is to just look it up by the part numbers on the sticks.
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Hunter Ghorin
Damn, I'm starting to feel mighty incompetent :-s
There's a whole lotta numbers on the sticks, but you mean on the stickers right? There's a SN (serial number?), PN (?) and then some. On the little blocks some numbers, ...
How do I compare them in any case?
Sorry, really, but my curiosity has awoken with my lust for the Ultimate Gaming System. Now I wanna know everything!
edit: Cpuz shows info on sticks one by one, and the Corsair is faster. But I still wanna know everything
Thanks a lot!
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Some manufacturers dont mark things very clearly unfortunately. Try taking whatever numbers you have and just dropping them into google. You can come up with most of the info you need that way.
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Hunter Ghorin
The timings will disply in CPU-Z as a string of numbers like this, 5-5-5-12. It will also show you the speed that the memory as either DDRXXX (XXX being a like 266,333,400 if its DDR ram) or DDR2XXX same deal there too just higher. From a personal standpoint you can't go wrong with matching brand and GB amount and Corsair is very nice ram. Is the board a Dual Channel motherboard by chance? If it is definately go for the matching size ram as it should at least run dual channel, albeit at whichever stick is a little slower.
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