one stick at 3200 or two at 2700?

[tipoo]

ok heres the deal... i just got a gig of ram advertised at pc3200 speeds, and i have left another 256mb stick in the slot running at pc2700. should i loose the old stick and run at higher speeds or should i keep both in for 1.25 gigs? my mainboard is a kt4v on a kt400 chipset.

 

[31computers]

If you keep all the sticks in, they will all default to the lowest rated speed i.e. 2700.
Forget the 256Mb of PC2700, and run your 1Gb at 3200

 

[Mondoman]

If you are running Windows, keep the extra RAM for 1.25GB. Although it won't be a big speed improvement, any RAM is so much faster than virtual (hard drive) memory that more RAM is almost always better than faster RAM.

 

[tipoo]

so i have one reply each way... any more opinions?

 

[XMSYellowbeard]

so i have one reply each way... any more opinions?

I agree with Mondoman in this case, and especially since you don't need to worry about dual channel. For this system, more memory is gooder 8)

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

+1 Windows will use the memory increase more then the speed increase.


However, you might want to benchmark a game or something and see what you like.

 

[tipoo]

two sticks it is then. thanks guys!