My First Build - Computer Forum

groom03 · #1 (**permalink**) 20/08/06, 22:13

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2Ghz Socket 939
1.5gb Kingston pc3200 400Mhz RAM
160Gb Maxtor SATAII Hard Drive
CD-RW
Ricoh DVD+RW
Inno 3d Geforce 6800GT 256Mb GDDR3 RAM
MSI K8N SLI Motherboard
WIN XP Home SP2

My first build, What do you think?

syphus · #2 (**permalink**) 21/08/06, 19:43

Is that 1 GB of RAM in 2x512 MB plus 2x256 MB?

groom03 · #3 (**permalink**) 21/08/06, 20:05

it's 3x512s

syphus · #4 (**permalink**) 21/08/06, 20:34

Then you have disabled Symmetric Dual Channel.

You must run your RAM in pairs, or else the memory bandwidth is half of what it should be. Read this for basic explanation.

groom03 · #5 (**permalink**) 21/08/06, 20:42

If i get another 512 'stick' but someone gave me a gb from their old pc so i wasn't gonna complain

syphus · #6 (**permalink**) 22/08/06, 11:05

The point is, you'll get better performance out of 2 x 512 MB than 3 x 512 MB, due to improved memory bandwidth.

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