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In a message dated 6/27/2006 4:28:26 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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Very interesting. My MB, a MSI RS482M4 (MS-7191) with 4 memory banks, can
according to the manual run @ 400MHz with all 4 memory blocks polulated, but
will in real life only do it with two blocks, which brings me to a question:
what is preferable - 1GB @ 400 or 2 GB @ 333 ?
Hi,
That would depend on what you are running. If everything you run
simultaneously requires less than 1GB of RAM, then the 1GB @ 400 would be faster (by a
little bit). However, if your memory usage goes over the 1GB limit, then it
would have to start swapping to virtual memory, i.e. the hard drive. That
slows things down tremendously (compared to RAM, a hard drive moves data at a
snails pace). In this case, the 2GB @ 333 would be significantly faster.
HTH,
Peter Hogan
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