I have confused myself again.
After deciding to stay with my 2.8e "anything but a dual channel cpu" setup, It occured to me I may want to fill in the last two memory slots with two more 512mb kingston so it would be 4x512 all exactly the same, until this system is deemed exctinct and so far behind I have to upgrade....
I am assuming at this point I will lose a bit of speed .memtest86 v3.4 for 45 minutes showed 2805MB/s on two sticks, not even close to an overheat (I have killed my memory on old sdram and memtest 86, going for the silent pc approach back in the wrong day) the ddr is spread smartly. I still do not want 1gb in each slot without ddr2 first...
Anyway, I really like the ddr spread out, hence no go for the gusto 1gb in each slot, lose xp and its 3gb weirdness with my total of four gb. I just want two GB with 4x512 kingston KVR ddr400(as if I could bury one GB with all the crazy things I do with my pc).
Is this a pro thing to do, or a newb waste of time?
I also run two twin ata100 hdd, with the pagefile dedicated etc etc to help things along.
After deciding to stay with my 2.8e "anything but a dual channel cpu" setup, It occured to me I may want to fill in the last two memory slots with two more 512mb kingston so it would be 4x512 all exactly the same, until this system is deemed exctinct and so far behind I have to upgrade....
I am assuming at this point I will lose a bit of speed .memtest86 v3.4 for 45 minutes showed 2805MB/s on two sticks, not even close to an overheat (I have killed my memory on old sdram and memtest 86, going for the silent pc approach back in the wrong day) the ddr is spread smartly. I still do not want 1gb in each slot without ddr2 first...
Anyway, I really like the ddr spread out, hence no go for the gusto 1gb in each slot, lose xp and its 3gb weirdness with my total of four gb. I just want two GB with 4x512 kingston KVR ddr400(as if I could bury one GB with all the crazy things I do with my pc).
Is this a pro thing to do, or a newb waste of time?
I also run two twin ata100 hdd, with the pagefile dedicated etc etc to help things along.