Ram

[Cole]

I know Amd processors have some ram limitations or something..
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103533
Would it be possible sticking 2 gigs(512x4) of ram in a motherboard with this processor and having them all run as PC 3200.

 

[Da-Muffin-Man]

That should work fine. My brothers got a 3500 with 2 gigs of RAM and 2x6800s and it doesnt show any signs of slowing the CPU.

P.S. the RAM will always run at PC3200, but if the CPU cant keep up with it, it will seem to be slower.

 

[Asus]

I wouldn't count on it. Generally with 4 sticks it runs at a step down (PC2700). Double check the motherboards manual as it will say. I would get 2x 1GB if you want 2GB of memory on a regular desktop system. You won't run into that problem then.

FYI doing 4x512MB on an Intel system will be worse. It keeps the speed at PC3200 but the latency takes a big hit.
Only Workstation and Server systems avoid this problem completely by using Registered (or Buffered) memory.
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[Shamrock]

But there is no reason to have 2 GB of RAM, well, just yet anyway. I mean of course down the road there will definetly be applications/games that will need and utilize 2 GB of RAM, but until those actually come out, 1 GB should be just perfect for another year or so.

 

[Cole]

Thanks, I was thinking on 2x1Gig but I couldn't find any latencies that were as good as the 512's I found.
I'll probably just stick with 1gig or maybe 1.5gig?

 

[Da-Muffin-Man]

Alot of the new games coming out need more than 1 gig of RAM with all your other programs running.

 

[sinkoman]

Alot of the new games coming out need more than 1 gig of RAM with all your other programs running.

Only idiots run games with another app open.

The only apps I have open when i'm playing a game is Xfire, which is sitting in the taskbar usually, and on rare occasion (usually just gmod) my firewall, also sitting in the tray.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

But there is no reason to have 2 GB of RAM, well, just yet anyway. I mean of course down the road there will definetly be applications/games that will need and utilize 2 GB of RAM, but until those actually come out, 1 GB should be just perfect for another year or so.

I agree with shamrock, its best just to get 1Gb of low latency RAM. Look to Corsair Ram. Sometimes Ram comes with numbers similar to this: 1-2-2-9 (on the lines anyway), the first number is the cash latency where the lower the number, the better it is. However I'm not entirely sure how low the number goes, someone with a high spec computer could enlighten me?