How much RAM do you have? (MS Windows)

Franklin, i suggest u read up on the differences between memory. google and wikipedia are your friends

DDR and DDR2 dont need to be run in pairs, but it does improve performance.

 

1G - Plenty for me, but 2G's will soon be the standard I think. Blame the game makers

 

........and Windows Vista.

 

Wow, all comment is really smart machine !!

Desktop Win2K - 1Gb
Laptop WinXPP - 1Gb
Server Win2K3SBS-R2 - 2Gb (later increase to 32Gb !!..Psst She is XEON Dual Core !!)

Other Seven WorkStations is Maximum 512Mb. Too bad Staffs ! (hehe)

 

Here is my two cents on the pairing of memory when done for performance instead of compatibility. Doing so provides some gains however you must be mindful of chip timing and if SIMMS chip rows are single/double sided and to match speed ratings, issues affecting performance will develop if you use differently timed chips in the wrong sequential order in the sockets.

However there is a "Bus" technology providing improved memory performance and it Is called "Dual Channel" and if your motherboard has supports for dual channel it does substantially improve memory performance. You don’t need to purchase “Special Dual channel kits” to get the benefit but you must try and match timings to get optimal performance gains. (The best and highest "Dual Channel" performing boards are AMD based).

 

Bit of an ad for Corsair towards the end but quite a good presentation on the workings of ram.

http://www.corsairmicro.com/memory_basics/153707/index.html

 

This really is great presentation with nice simple graphs. I thought they did oversimplify things a bit…

Here’s Kingston version of the “Ultimate Memory Guide”. This paper does drill in quite a bit of details on configuration and pre requisites as well as comparative load.

http://www.kingston.com/tools/UMG/default.asp

Hope this helps!

 

Thanks for the link to the info. Have always been a Kingston user.

 

1024 installed never use more than 350 though.

 

1024 too

 

I have now upgraded to 2048MB (dual channel mode) mainly to have spare memory for VMWare. But I have recently discovered the yahoo widgets toys. They take some memory, but they are fun it is nice not to have to worry about memory consumption anymore

I did try 1.5GB but I did get BSOD´s with that amount for some reason, but when I installed one more 512MB stick the BSOD disappeared.

Kingston Valueram 512x2 and Samsung 512x2

 

very soon i go to ad one 1024 more

 

I've got 2048MB in my machine

 

Same here.With only three ram slots seems I will have to get two sticks of 1 gig ddr to upgrade for Vista.

Knowing what I know now I would have made sure my mobo was able to take 4 sticks which was bought just over 2 years ago.

Motherboard ECS 648FX-A

Might be time to hand down this pc to one of the kids and go all out on a newie.

4 gig ddr2 sounds good just for starters.LOL

 

I'm running windows 2003 with 1024mb RAM (2 x 512mb @ 667mhz).
24 running processes, around 750mb free.

 

My 2 year old Dell has 1024gb of ram. I got it for the future, rather than get 512 and 3 years from now have to buy more. Remember in 1997 when 16mb of ram was enough?

 

Ahem! well believe it or not, I just upgraded my 3,62Ghz Machine to 4GB of RAM and a 500GB Hard Drive Purrrsssss Like A Kitten

 

XP Pro: 384 MB. Athlon XP2000+ chip. Runs faster than many 3GHZ machines with 1GB. It's all how you set 'em up, baby.

2K Laptop: 96 MB. Celeron 400mhz. Not fast, but fast enough.

 

Thats a heck of a lot of ram, what exectly do you need it all for?

 

Ahem.....beat ya to it. Got me on the HDD though.

 

OK 3 or 4 gigs. Farmerlee doesn't care, he wants to know why?

 

2 Giggies here

 

1 gig of ram here.

The next PC I build for myself will have 2 gigs

 

2256 mb RAM here.

 

Do you mean 2x256=512?