2 Gigs Faster Then 3?

[toledo_speedo]

I have two 1 Gig cards in the first RAM bank in my Dell Dimension 510 and two 512mb cards in my second bank for a total of 3 gigs. I have heard that I should just pull the 512 cards and use a one gig card in each bank. Any thoughts?

 

[dagger]

It's the same speed. That is a parallel setup. It's still running in dual channel, assuming they're ddr2 ram. If it's 3 1gb sticks, it would be downgraded to single channel.

 

[toledo_speedo]

What if I ran a 1 gig and a 512 mb in each channel?

 

[dagger]

What if I ran a 1 gig and a 512 mb in each channel?

What do you mean? It's fine as is. Keep the ram.

 

[Dekasav]

Perfect as it is. Only reason to change anything is if you were going to go to 4Gb, which is relatively useless.

And going 1 gig and 512 mb would be slower. If you have the same amount in each channel, that's good. Anything else is worse.

 

[JohnnyMash]

Leave it as it is. BTW, the word is THAN.