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speak_see_hear
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 Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2003 11:46 am Post subject: RDRAM Questions |
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I have a Gateway with a P4 1.4Ghz and 128MB of PC800 RDRAM, does anyone know if I buy another 512MB (2X256MB) PC800 RDRAM should I be able to just plug it in and use it? and will it make compiling much faster?
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Sarah
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2003 5:09 pm Post subject: Re: RDRAM Questions |
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| speak_see_hear wrote: | I have a Gateway with a P4 1.4Ghz and 128MB of PC800 RDRAM, does anyone know if I buy another 512MB (2X256MB) PC800 RDRAM should I be able to just plug it in and use it? and will it make compiling much faster?
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I would recommend making sure your motherboard can take a 512MB stick if you haven't already checked. You can check your documentation or perhaps Gateway's site.
As far as speed improvement goes I can only say that in going from 256MB to 512MB, I saw dramatic improvement in performance across the board. I rarely see my machine dip into swap now.
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Malakin
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2003 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | should I be able to just plug it in and use it? and will it make compiling much faster? |
You should probably look up your model on Gateways website and make sure it will take the extra memory but it should work just fine and everything will run faster.
After installing it I'd run memtest86 just to make sure there aren't any errors.
| Quote: | | I would recommend making sure your motherboard can take a 512MB stick if you haven't already checked. |
He said 2X256MB, RDRAM has to be used in pairs. |
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Sarah
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2003 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Malakin wrote: |
| Quote: | | I would recommend making sure your motherboard can take a 512MB stick if you haven't already checked. |
He said 2X256MB, RDRAM has to be used in pairs. |
You're correct. I had SDRAM on the brain  |
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pjp
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Tuna
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| Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 10:07 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | He said 2X256MB, RDRAM has to be used in pairs |
*warning: not fool prove information ahead*
actually that is not quite right. the 16bit rdram modules have to be used in pairs. lately there are 32bit versions (which of course need a different mobo type) which can be put in as a single. but due to the fact there is a 1.4ghz p4 on it - it is most likely a 16 bit type.. but then again.. did they really delivered these things with 2 x 64 mb modules? oh my goodness  |
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