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toledo_speedo   11-08-2008 at 02:08:26 AM

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?

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dagger   11-08-2008 at 03:52:55 AM
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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.

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toledo_speedo   11-08-2008 at 04:42:59 AM
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What if I ran a 1 gig and a 512 mb in each channel?

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dagger   11-08-2008 at 05:26:08 AM
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toledo_speedo wrote :

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.

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Dekasav   11-08-2008 at 05:31:17 AM
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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.

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JohnnyMash   11-08-2008 at 05:49:53 AM
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Leave it as it is. BTW, the word is THAN.

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