Hello Peter  Hogan,

On 27-06-2006 09:23:57 you wrote:

 > Another caveat, many motherboards will only run memory at full 
 > speed  with 1 stick installed, as more sticks get installed, the 
 > speed drops to  maintain stability due to the loading effects of 
 > the extra RAM. (They don't tell  you this up front, you only read 
 > about it in the manual, AFTER you've bought the board...:)
 > 
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 ?


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Mogens

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