On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Neal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As far as price, it doesn't matter wether you buy PC3200 or PC2700 > non-ECC memory. It's the same price. > > Be aware that the PC2700 can be faster than the PC3200. If you're > running at PC2700 speed and the PC2700 is CL2.5 while the PC3200 is > CL3, there will be a performance hit with the PC3200. > > Also, the speed of the other modules will effect maximum memory speed. > I haven't played around with three module configurations but making > sure the two 512MB modules are interleaved may help a bit, depending > on the sophistication of the chipset, the BIOS, phase of the moon, > etc. > > Burn a boot disk with Memtest86+ and play musical DIMMs to see what works > best. > > http://www.memtest.org/ or many Linux install disks offer it as a boot > option. > > NealS > >
I am thinking with a system this mature. RAM speed is not going to do much either way. Did you mention CPU speed? Marvin _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
