Hi I have a just bought 2 x Corsair 1 gb DDR2 800mhz 2 X Kingston 1 gb DDR2 800mhz I am currently using them together on a MSI K9N Neo - F Mobo I was wandering if I d been very stupid in trying to use 2 diferent makes of RAM together .... The pc does not seem to run any quicker then when I had only the 2 Gb of Corsair installed.
no, what OS are you using, becaus i think WinXP 32bit can only address (see) upto 3.5GB of RAM on XP you won't gain much performance wise
Vista 64 can address up to 4GB so thats fine, CPU doesn't make much difference, i know something but i cant remember what, you should throw SP1 at it, here's why BTW: i haven't read the MS page i linked to, i just gave it a quick scan, i think it's relevent
Thanks for that ... I have SP 1 installed already ... ... So I m ok with using different makes of RAM on the same MOBO? And If I m expecting a boost in performance i should nt be ... I take it 2 x 2GB cards would be better than 4 x 1 GB cards ...
no probs good yes, the difficult part is choosing the RAM to upgrade with, when upgrading RAM it is much easier to replace all you RAM rather than trying to match the timming settings in the BIOS with your old & new RAM, but you've being very lucky or you've done your homework or you are running your new RAM at the same speed as your old RAM - to check this download & install PCWizard doing this would provide with upgradability but the performance boost would only be seen in a benchmark test, however, upgrading to dual channel memory would (in theory) give extra kick[ot]i'm not to sure about dual channel & Vista cos i've only run Linux on 1GB DDR2 for years now, no hardware upgrades for me[/ot] BTW: i'm tight with money
