2 512's or 1 gig?

[FartComa]

I'm about to buy a gig of pc3200 ram, and I'm not sure if it's better to get 2 512's or just 1 stick of 1024.... i guess I'm kinda nub, but this is what my motherboard says about ram, dunno if it actual has real meaning...

it "supports Dual Channe l Technology. When Dual Technology is activated, the bandwidth of memory bus will be double the original one....One memory module installed Dual Channel Technology will not operate and will only work as a single channel. Two DDR memory modules are installed, the Dual Technology wil operate [some words omitted for easier read]"

 

[Flinx]

<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.html?i=1839" target="_new">http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.html?i=1839</A>
You get performance increases using memory in a dual channel configuration.
and
<A HREF="http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20030701/index.html" target="_new">http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20030701/index.html</A>

The loving are the daring!<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Flinx on 07/31/03 08:22 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[marneus]

how much depends on what you do with your PC, as long as it is W9x systems will have problems with more than 512mb, 2000/XP OSes are fine up a gig no worries... me 1/2 a gig is sufficient for anything I am doing...

Trust me I know what I'm doing... ooops, grab the cat...