Higher speeds or just more of it?

[jellydoughnut217]

what would be better: 1 gig of dual channle pc3200 ram at 400 mhz OR

1.5 gigs of non dual channle pc2700 ram at 333mhz?

 

[Lahire149]

1gig for games.
non dual sucks

 

[duffers20]

1gb ddr400 dual channel.

 

[3ssence]

Thirded

 

[NikolaX]

More memory allways helps..
Try to benchmark it and find what is better for you.

 

[Lahire149]

More memory allways helps..
Try to benchmark it and find what is better is for you.

ya but, it takes longer to load applications that way.
1.5gigs is only good for video editing, and for games like FEAR at max texture resolution (assuming you lack the video ram).
But really anything in single channel is teh suXx0rz.

 

[NikolaX]

hmm, show me some bench of dual vs single.

 

[Lahire149]

hmm, show me some bench of dual vs single.

proof
http://www.tcmagazine.info/articles.php?action=show&id=128&perpage=1&pagenum=3
much better in synthetics, and in HL2
but depends on various other things in other games

 

[duffers20]

I stick with dual channel 1gb and if you find that you need more, then get 2gb of dual channel ram. Just make sure you choose the 1gb dimms carefully as some will actually slow down your pc.

 

[PickledGecko]

Please excuse my semi thread hijacking.

I’m thinking about getting a AMD Athlon 64 X2. Should I get a 4400+ or a 4600+?

The 4600+ is 200MHz faster but the 4400+ has 1mb cache per core rather than the 4600+’s 512kb.

Some reviewer said that the extra cache makes no difference, but a reviewer of the other chip claimed that the cache is better.

Also he claimed he could overclock the 4400+ the extra 200MHz which effectively makes it a 4800+.

 

[Lahire149]

it's about the same, i'd get the cheaper one and put a slight OC on it

 

[Asus]

I'd get the cheaper one, personally. If you are thinking about OCing then I'd get the 4400+ for sure.

 

[PickledGecko]

Yeah, I’d half convinced myself to buy the 4400+ already. The only thing putting me off is that motherboards are enough of a pain in the arse to shop for without taking overclocking into account. So many features and figures and stuff to compare, and most internet sites have really crappy filtering/searching options.

 

[socK]

I remember reading dual and single difference is almost nothing on AMD64s. :O

 

[jellydoughnut217]

well from the benchmarks it looks like dual and single channle doesnt produce a difference. However i wonder what the difference in performance between pc2700 at 333mhz and pc3200 at 400 mhz is?

By the way i have the 4400+ im pretty satisfied with it so far, its pretty cool how much stuff you can do at the same time without any slowdown

 

[PickledGecko]

I take it you both mean there is not difference in game performance, not performance overall. I realise this, after all, for software to use both cores it would have to be written in the code and games never have been and wont until dual core chips in most gamers PCs. I use my comp for more than gaming, that’s why I’m considering dual core.