DDR RAM Question.......

[Franklin P Patchey]

I have a Jetway S447 Motherboard that support non ecc memory.

Whats would be better having 1.5Gb of 266MHz DDR RAM or

1.0 Gb of 333MHz DDR RAM?

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"Franklin P Patchey" <REMOVETHIS101001@talk21.com> wrote in message
news:bol9ie$71s$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk... I have a Jetway S447 Motherboard that support non ecc memory. Whats would be better having 1.5Gb of 266MHz DDR RAM or 1.0 Gb of 333MHz DDR RAM?

If you find yourself using more than, about, 768MB, then you should go for
the 1.5GB even though it is slower. If you don't frequently go beyond 768MB
(even if you only are going to, say, 850MB, you are more likely to go beyond
the 1GB), then get the faster stuff.

If you have XP, right-click the task bar, and go to task manager, then on
the performance page, it shows you physical memory (K). If you subtract the
Available from the Total, you find out how much you are actually using at
that time.

Keep that thing running, and when you launch programs and do some
multi-tasking, then check it and see what sort of usage you are getting.

If you aren't using about 768MB (its just the half-way between 0.5GB and
1.0GB), then you don't need 1.5GB. If you are using more than 1GB now, then
you definetly need the 1.5GB. What you'd have in that case is disk
swapping, and you can well imagine that the hard drive isn't nearly as fast
as a stick of RAM.

Anyways, if you can afford it, 1.5GB of DDR 333 is what you'd really want I
image :)