...from NewEgg last year when I built my system. I am now looking to upgrade it by adding another one of those (I knew I should have just sprung for the 4GB in the first place) but it says the item is no longer available.
I was under the impression that it was important that your memory sticks be compatible with each other... so what should I look for to make sure that another 2GB of RAM will work in my system?
I would have posted earlier but I thought this was about SD memory cards and their various form factors. Just clicked on in due to a morbid curiosity about just how many types there are.
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Why is it you couldn't buy one 1 meg stick of DDR2 RAM and two 512MB sticks of DDR2 and have them work together as 2 gigs? This seems like something that should have been solved by now.
Why is it you couldn't buy one 1 meg stick of DDR2 RAM and two 512MB sticks of DDR2 and have them work together as 2 gigs? This seems like something that should have been solved by now.
You can, the 1 gb stick will just be slower than the two 512 mb sticks. The way dual channel architecture works is that it interweaves data between two identical sticks of ram, which helps reduce latency when retrieving sequential chunks of data.
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You can, the 1 gb stick will just be slower than the two 512 mb sticks. The way dual channel architecture works is that it interweaves data between two identical sticks of ram, which helps reduce latency when retrieving sequential chunks of data.
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