Have I messed up with buying memory?

[ken]

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I just bought the Asus A8N SLI board and put in 2 sticks of 1 gig corsair
memory - 2 gigs in total. I have a Athlon 64 4000 processor and a 6800 GT
card

Someone told me that the system would have been much quicker with 4 sticks
of low latency 512 meg dimms instead.

Is this true?
How much quicker would the system be with 4 sticks -(roughly)

 

[Guest]

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Whoever told you that was not correct. With 4 sticks of memory the memory
will only run at 333 Mhz, whereas with 2 it will run at 400 Mhz. So keep
your two.

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"Ken" <Too much Spam> wrote in message
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>I just bought the Asus A8N SLI board and put in 2 sticks of 1 gig corsair
>memory - 2 gigs in total. I have a Athlon 64 4000 processor and a 6800 GT
>card
>
> Someone told me that the system would have been much quicker with 4 sticks
> of low latency 512 meg dimms instead.
>
> Is this true?
> How much quicker would the system be with 4 sticks -(roughly)
>

 

[Guest]

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aimbie wrote:
> Whoever told you that was not correct. With 4 sticks of memory the memory
> will only run at 333 Mhz, whereas with 2 it will run at 400 Mhz. So keep
> your two.
>
> <<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> "Ken" <Too much Spam> wrote in message
> news:10v87tvd9f35d60@corp.supernews.com...
>
>>I just bought the Asus A8N SLI board and put in 2 sticks of 1 gig corsair
>>memory - 2 gigs in total. I have a Athlon 64 4000 processor and a 6800 GT
>>card
>>
>>Someone told me that the system would have been much quicker with 4 sticks
>>of low latency 512 meg dimms instead.
>>
>>Is this true?
>>How much quicker would the system be with 4 sticks -(roughly)
>>

It will run at 333 by default with 4 DIMMs, but if you are using decent
RAM you should be able to set the DRAM clock to DDR400 in the BIOS. I'm
using 4 512MB Corsair ValueSelect DIMMs in mine and it's working fine on
DDR400.

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