2Gigs or 3?

[St1m]

I’ve planned to do ram upgrade for a while now, but today I saw prices on new egg doubled for corsair’s memory. So I ordered corsair ddr2 800 2x1gig for $130 with $30 rebate on zoomfly. I already have 2x512mb sticks on my system with room for two more. I read on forums that installing 3 gigs is not recommended and it's better to have 2gigs instead. Should I cancel my order and get 2x512 sticks for $75 instead? My main concern is will they work in dual channel? I’m planning to do some editing/photoshop and gaming.

 

[sgtdisturbed47sgtd]

I somehow doubt that you could use Dual Channel with 2 gig sticks plus 2 512 sticks. For better results I would say just stick with 2 1GB sticks.

 

[Mondoman]

With good quality RAM like that Corsair XMS2, you shouldn't have any problems. There's no requirement to have all modules be the same to run in dual channel mode; even the picky systems should be OK with pairs of identical modules (as you will have), even if one pair is different from the other.

 

[St1m]

Paldies Draugs ))

 

[Mondoman]

Ne par ko!

 

[darious00777]

I've been working on the same thing. My next upgrade will be adding two 1.024 gigabyte sticks of RAM to repalace two of the four 512 megabyte sticks I have. It should still allow for dual channel usage, as long as I keep the same size of modules in each channel. I'm planning on going all G. Skill, so it should be fine.