memory question

[Anthony Acri]

I have 512KK DDR ram. My son instead of bringing anoher chip of 512K
bought 2 more. Is it any advantage to put up to 1.5 megs of ram or 1.2
should be okay?

[Peter Duniho]

"Anthony Acri" > wrote in message
...
>I have 512KK DDR ram. My son instead of bringing anoher chip of 512K
> bought 2 more. Is it any advantage to put up to 1.5 megs of ram or 1.2
> should be okay?

I don't really understand the question. Where do you get "1.2"?

1GB of RAM should be entirely sufficient for most programs, including flight
simulators, but there's no harm in having 1.5GB instead.

There are issues related to memory performance depending on your exact
motherboard configuration and the number of DIMMs installed, but in all
cases simply having the memory at all is a much more significant performance
change than whether the memory is operating at full speed.

Pete

[Anthony Acri]

Just asking if I should stay with 1 gig of memory or install the other chip
my son bought which would bring it to 1.5 gigs.


"Peter Duniho" > wrote in message
...
> "Anthony Acri" > wrote in message
> ...
>>I have 512KK DDR ram. My son instead of bringing anoher chip of 512K
>> bought 2 more. Is it any advantage to put up to 1.5 megs of ram or 1.2
>> should be okay?
>
> I don't really understand the question. Where do you get "1.2"?
>
> 1GB of RAM should be entirely sufficient for most programs, including
> flight simulators, but there's no harm in having 1.5GB instead.
>
> There are issues related to memory performance depending on your exact
> motherboard configuration and the number of DIMMs installed, but in all
> cases simply having the memory at all is a much more significant
> performance change than whether the memory is operating at full speed.
>
> Pete
>

[Brett I. Holcomb]

More is better with Ram <G>. It won't hurt to have that much. However,
you need to make sure it's compatible with your motherboard and that the
motherboard can take it.

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:33:00 -0400, Anthony Acri > wrote:

> Just asking if I should stay with 1 gig of memory or install the other
> chip
> my son bought which would bring it to 1.5 gigs.
>
>
> "Peter Duniho" > wrote in message
> ...
>> "Anthony Acri" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> I have 512KK DDR ram. My son instead of bringing anoher chip of 512K
>>> bought 2 more. Is it any advantage to put up to 1.5 megs of ram or 1.2
>>> should be okay?
>>
>> I don't really understand the question. Where do you get "1.2"?
>>
>> 1GB of RAM should be entirely sufficient for most programs, including
>> flight simulators, but there's no harm in having 1.5GB instead.
>>
>> There are issues related to memory performance depending on your exact
>> motherboard configuration and the number of DIMMs installed, but in all
>> cases simply having the memory at all is a much more significant
>> performance change than whether the memory is operating at full speed.
>>
>> Pete
>>
>
>

[Peter Duniho]

"The Outsider" > wrote in message
...
> [...] If you put three sticks in then it won't run in dual
> channel mode anymore and will negatively affect performance.

He had an odd number of DIMMs already (one). Adding an even number (two)
isn't going to adversely affect his performance.