On 18 Jul 2005 08:33:13 -0700, "msim" <msim2020@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Hey Kony,
>
>Sorry about sounding confused again.
>
>I heard earlier fromsomebody that for a dual channel MoBo which mine
>is, buying two 512MB sticks is better than buying one 1GB stick. Did
>you just indicate otherwise in your post above?

You would need, at a minimum, two memory modules. I don't
remember if your board (chipset) uses the dual mode for the
first 512MB per each module (which is all of one, only half
of the proposed 2nd module) or if two dissimilar modules
would not be in dual channel mode. Read your motherboard
manual.

>
>Otherwise I am good. I will get CAS2.5 and either a 512MB x 2 or a 1GB.
>May be 1GB can do it for me, however given how I leave applications
>running, the extra can well be used for general caching like you
>mentioned.

Yes the best performance increases come after having a
system running for awhile, so far fewer things need (re)read
from HDD.