i thought nowadays pc can support up to 4gb allready and 1gb is considered normal and minimum for a gaming righ right ?

2gb and more should not be a problem to any new desktop , i have tested 4x 512mb ram on my asus p4p800 deluxe and abit ic7 and msi board , all working fine , maybe that dfi mobo has a jumper or setting in the bios needed to be changed perhaps ?

i saw some 1G ram with CL3
normal ram non high performence
izzit normal having CL3?

U guys think it's better to have high performance 1G or 2Gs or regular RAM?

my situation now.. plz sifu out there help..!

if i'm not mistaken there is not much difference with CL2 vs CL2.5 . a few percentage points difference onli..

the onli big difference that i see is from running 2T compared to 1T which could be big difference of upto 10%

mine tests shows that:-

(X2 3800+, twinx3200XL, kingston, neo2 plat, default DDR400 speed)
2x512MB CL2@1T = ~5200MB
4x512MB (twinx + kingston) CL3@2T = ~4750MB

coz as far as i know, AMD will revert to 2T when all 4 memory slots filled with double sided ram

This post has been edited by jinaun: Nov 10 2005, 05:34 PM

Actually, if you have the money always go for 2 sticks. 4 sticks will default to 2T.

However, the difference between these two configs are not very evident in games but are more evident in synthetic benchmarks.

So if you do not wish to pay double to get the extra couple hundred of points in sisoft sandra, you could get 4 sticks of normal ram as well.

infenion ram good?

is it possible for a 1 stick 1 gig to run at 1T ?

just ordered OCZ EL PLATINUM PC3200 1024X2
gonna cost me 1k

Without a problem.

oooooo , great , means my new stick of ram will be jusssst great

thanks bro

infeneon user here..2 x 1GB CL3..no problem for normal use..but bad in overclocking..now using 5:4 divider at 250 fsb..so the rams run at ddr400 2.5-3-3-7 (ddr333 timings)..

Well, 2GB ram is the way to go, but it depends on your needs, finacial, and also timing. Unless for the hardcore gamer, or those who did video editing, it's probrably not the best time to buy 2GB ram. Too dear!!

Yeah , too mahal .

Egads, i just realized i'm going to have to play FEAR with 512 mb of memory, stupid DFI bios.

check out a similar thread in the Overclockers forum... i use2x1GB Infineon BE-5, at 2.5-3-2-7 240Mhz (DDR480) @1T

i was wondering
how to check whether 1T or 2T?
i didnt see anything something looks like 1T or 2T is bios

Normally, AMD motherboards have 1T or 2T settings in bios. If you set to 1T instead of Auto, your system will hang or become very unstable/not able to POST with 4 sticks of double sided RAM.

As for the ppl out there, which is the best 2GB kits, try Ballistix. This page was shown to me by kcnyc and I'm more determined to get a Balistix Z503. It can hit more than 300Mhz in a lot of user systems. Check it out here on real life user experience... XtremeSystems

OMG. 2X1Gb running at 300mhz! That's insane man. My daily use oso 250HTT oni.

Yeah, but it got me thinking as well.

300HTT x 3 = 900HTT is faster? or
250HTT x 4 = 1000HTT?

As we all know, the HTT should not exceed 1000 before stability is affected, so we can't run like 300 x 4 = 1200HTT; very much unlike what we expect from Intel platforms.

Anyone has any information on this, please share.

This post has been edited by jarofclay: Nov 21 2005, 12:07 AM