RAM question..? which is faster?

**flash** · 3rd February 2006, 14:21

Originally Posted by WRT

Have no fear, I am well familiar with what memtest is and what it does - however, I think you are missing the point of what Feint is asking. He doesnt care about testing the memory for flaws or seeing how much is being transferred between the north and south bridges, he merely wants to know (as Marmoot so elequently put it) which is faster for downloading porn! (or whatever other tasks he shall choose to use his computer for.)

thats why i sugested the game benchmarks cause that will tell him which way is better for high demanding graphics....

simjen: your totally right, cant windows only use upto like 512mbs? (not including other applications)

**Pathos** · 3rd February 2006, 14:25

wtf...

The 1500mb will ONLY be noticably faster if you are running out of memory and using harddisk virtual memory.

Run the program that uses the most memory and switch to task manager and see how much memory is used.
If its more than 1024mg then go for the 1500mb otherwise it doesn't matter.

DDR 400 runs at 200mhz not 400mhz

My motherboard has two DDR400 slots and one DDR333, yours may also have mismatching memory slots and thus the motherboard on noticing the extra memory has to reduce the speed on all slots.

**SimJen** · 3rd February 2006, 14:53

Originally Posted by flash

thats why i sugested the game benchmarks cause that will tell him which way is better for high demanding graphics....

simjen: your totally right, cant windows only use upto like 512mbs? (not including other applications)

Well, benchmarks aren't really going to show much of an improvement between the memory sizes but memory speed will have a greater effect.
Windows XP can use the whole lot....but whats the point. I've got 2-256 (512mb) of Dual channel at home running at 225mhz or DDR450 if you like and for what I do, webdesign, cad and graphics the differences between 512 and 1024 were so small it wasn't worth the cost. I also had issues cranking the 2-512s (1024mb) to the same speed.
I work on 50mb graphics files regularly and don't really suffer any problems, as long as you have a good overall system.

**N4CR** · 3rd February 2006, 15:04

Okay, how many programs will use the extra .5gb? Not much unless you are a 3d modeler/CAD etc.

400 vs 333 wont make much difference on an AMD platform but it will on an Intel one as the chipset/chip etc will be different in general.

edit: I'd go for 400.... more overclockable anyway in the future

**Lou Girardin** · 3rd February 2006, 16:17

Originally Posted by cowpoos

you'll find that texel's are the fastest....followed by suffox's.... although a freashly shorn perindale has a good turn of speed but run out of puff quickly...but quite hard to get a hold of because they a freashly shorn... rommeny's are just too bulky and big to move quickly... but that makes them easy to catch :spudbooge

Do you know if their gigs hurt?

**Marmoot** · 3rd February 2006, 16:59

Originally Posted by tristank

Okay, how many programs will use the extra .5gb? Not much unless you are a 3d modeler/CAD etc.

There would be a lot of programs using the extra 0.5gb if your comp is infested with so many spywares and viruses

**TwoSeven** · 3rd February 2006, 17:07

Check that your bios settings are 'by spd' - which means get the timings off the ram sticks. Then use everest home edtion to check the spd settings on the ram.

Under the motherboard spd settings you'll get a whole bunch of values - you'll find that there will be values for 200mhz (ddr400), 166 (ddr 333) etc.

Its likely that one of the types of ram has a mismatch spd setting on the ddr200 rate, so the board is dropping down to the next highest setting.

**kro** · 3rd February 2006, 17:22

Show me an operating system that can effectively utilise more than 1gb of ram, and you get a free blowy.

Go the higher mhz frequency speed, that DDR400 will pillage the other option.