better memory performance

[r0ul3tt3]

I have an asus p4s8x-x and I recently upgraded my CPU from a Celeron 2.4GHz 400MHz fsb to a p4 3.06 GHz 533MHz fsb and there is a noticeable performance increase, although it's not as good as others with similar systems get, when I first built my system I was dumb and naive and got the cheapest gig of ram I could get, I have 1 1GB PC2700 DIMM, I’m still uneducated in the field of ram, but I am wondering if the memory is getting bottle necked in the 1 dimm and causing the studdering when i have high detail on games, i was wondering if adding 2 512MB DIMMs or even another 1GB DIMM would increase performance, also the RAM is 1GB 1024MB true PC2700 (64x8) 333Mhz DDR, what does the 64x8 mean? is 64x8 good/bad/meaningless to performance? also i use a nvidia geforcefx5600

i get 2398 3dmarks and 303CPUmarks on 3dmark03

Any answers on what would increase performance would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!

 

[Ned_Flanders]

64 * 8 means there are a total of 8 RAM chips on your RAM stick, each one with a capacity of 64Mb, totaling in 512Mb

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[Crashman]

I don't think that's what the designators mean! My 4x32 chips (old RAM) have 8 chips and total 16MB. My 32x64 SDRAM has 16 chips and is 256MB.

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[fishmahn]

The 64x8, 4x32, etc. designators on ram chips are the matrix used inside that chip. Basically, it's meaningless to us today, but back before DIMMs & SIMMs, it was important that you got the right 'matrix' in addition to the right capacity.

Mike

 

[jammydodger]

Your motherboard is based on the SiS648 chipset, this means that it does not support dual channel mode in RAM. Now since no game I know of requires more than 512-1gig it would be pointless to upgrade your RAM (people only need more than a gig for video editing, servers etc.).

Your chipset offically supports PC2700, but can also use PC3200 (although not officailly because it was not JEDEC specified at the time of release). So there is no real point in getting faster RAM, it might give you a 4% speed increase.

I would say the best way to go would be to change the graphics card, you can get 9800Pro's well cheap now. That should bring your score up to about 5500+ 3d Marks.

 

[folken]

I agree with jammydodger that you should probably go for a new video card for the highest performance increase. That SiS chipset will still be hindering performance but it isn't hurtin you as much as that FX5600 is.

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