my system, gigabyt mobo nforce4 4gig ram max, 2gig ocz gold edition pc3200, amd athlon64 3800 2.2ghz,gforce 7800gt, wd 250gb sata. my system seems faster when one gig ram taken out, memory is exact same, could it be that a 2.2 ghz cpu can not keep up with 2gb ram?
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No motherboard supports 40 Gigs of RAM. Not even servers with perhaps the exception of the World Enviroment Simulator in Japan.\n\nMost don't support more then 4 gigs because it's not feasible. 2 gig RAM chips are hard as hell to find and very expensive ($502 on newegg), therefore putting RAM slots that can read 2 gig chips is a cost that doesn't make any sense and has virtually no market appeal. Hence why the highest is 4 ram slots that can read 1 gig chips apiece for 4 gigs of total ram. \n\nThere are motherboards that can support more but they are very difficult to find and very expensive.
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The increase in ram will really only affect how memory is available for windows and other programs to use.  The increase in speed that you get is negligible.  If you want a big increase in speed then you need to upgrade the processor.
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I've always felt like there's no such thing as too much RAM, but I thought I'd check with the experts to see what they say. I went to my old reliable "Tom's Hardware Review."\n\nSurprise! From testing reported in December, 2005, it comes down to "how do you use your machine and what do you want to do."\n\nFor single applications run one at a time, there's apparently very little difference between 512 meg of RAM and 2 gigabytes! They suggest it's not cost effective if this is your style and the money would be better placed into a video card.\n\nThe story's different for multitasking, though, something that I do frequently. It's not unusual for me to have four or five video/audio editing and assembly applications going at the same time, along with a browser and notepad and maybe even burning and downloading at the same time. It looks like more RAM would be beneficial for me.\n\nHere's the link to the specific page I used for my conclusion. (1)\nYou can use just this summary to make your decision, or you can read the whole article.\n\nHappy computing!
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Your processor speed will certainly affect the speed that the computer can process functions.  Your RAM is an allocation of memory that is needed when running programs.  The more you multi-task, or run multiple programs, the more this will tax your system.
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There is no Athlon 64x2 3200+, the lowest end Athlon 64x2 is a 3800+ with two cores running at 2.0GHz.  First of all, the socket 939 motherboards only support up to PC3200 so you're fine there.  It's true that a single application can only use one core at a time but Windows can split different applications between the two cores.  Like all your background stuff (firewall, anti-virus and so on) run on one core and if you're playing a game, it runs on the other core so one doesn't slow the other down.  If you do a lot of multi-tasking a dual core will speed things up because put simply half will be running on one core and half on the other.  But if you only run one or two applications at a time then a single core is probably best.  An argument can be made for both, single cores are good for now.  But when multi-threaded applications come out at the end of this year and next year a single core will begin to show its age, oh it'll still run them without the multithreading but you'll see a performance decrease for sure.  I reccomend taking a look at Tomshardware and seeing which processor you like best (but keep in mind all these applications are single threaded so they slow the dual cores down, had they been multithreaded the dual cores would have appeared faster), http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/11/21/the_mother_of_all_cpu_charts_2005/page24.html
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Okay...  The difference between a 3.0 and a 2.8 is negligible.  However, if the 3.0 were tapped with HT, or Hyperthreading, the difference would be enormous.  Hyperthreading virtually turns one processor into two.  It will significantly increase the PC performance when it comes to multi-tasking.  Look for it.\nFSB... or Front Side Bus...  Imagine a funnel.  The CPU speed, like 3 GHz, would be the top of the funnel.  The FSB would be the bottom.  No matter how big the top is, the bottom can only allow so much out at one time.  There are FSB's up to 2000 now.\nMemory... the speed is what you're looking at.  This means that the memory clock is set at 533 MHz/sec.  The higher the speed, obviously, the faster information can be retrieved from memory.  The DIMMs are the number of slots availible.  If you have 2 DIMMs, then you have 2 slots for memory.  A maximum of 2 GHz of memory is availible.  At 4 DIMMs, your maximum is 4 GHz.  The more memory, the faster you can get programs to load, or the less lag you'd see in high res games.\nHard Drive...  As a hard drive reads its disks, it writes information to the cache.  The larger the cache, the more information you can access before the HDD has to read more.  So, the higher the Cache, the better.  As far as RPMs, this is the speed at which the disks spin, and logically, the higher the RPM, the faster the HDD can access new information.\nYour options are all dependant on your budget.  You will get great performance with the 2.8, with 512 Megs of memory, with a 7200 RPM hdd with an 8MB cache.  But, the more you can afford to put in it, the longer it will take before you are way behind tomorrow's technologies.\nIf you have further questions, feel free to email me at this yahoo screen name.  I build and repair PCs for a living.
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The numeral portion of DDR memory represents the "MB/s" of the RAM, so PC2700 is rated at 2.7GB/s (2700MB/s) and so forth. However, when configuring your RAM the names of the memory are actually related to their speeds as follows:\n\nPC2100: 266Mhz\nPC2700: 333Mhz\nPC3200: 400Mhz\nPC3500: 433Mhz\nPC3700: 466Mhz\nPC4000: 500Mhz\nPC4200: 533Mhz\n\nNote that many of these RAMs are NOT officially recognized by standards committees because technically anything above DDR400 speeds are not officially supported by chipsets.\n\nMost of the really high speed RAM such as 433Mhz and above (PC3500 and above) go beyond standard specs and are useful for FSB overclocking above 200Mhz.
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An socket 939 AMD board that supports the latest/fastest 64-bit processors,has gigabit LAN and takes up to 4 gigs of memory. It is blazin' fast and won't choke(freeze) on anything.\nRemember, actual computer speed = processor speed x Front-side bus speed....this has a 2000 fsb!http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1517248&Tab=0&NoMapp=0
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Yes, you must have an onboard Graphics on your mainboard that uses part of your installed RAM for it to function. Hence the discrepancy. You can install a separate graphics card if there is a slot for it on your computer mainboard. Then, you will have all your installed RAM for use.
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You have not stated WHAT ram slots your Motherboard has.\nGuessing by the PII 333, I would say SDRAM, the older style.\nThe newer style, DDR ram, is able to use 2 cards of ram at the\nsame time - one can read, the other can write, so that 2 cards\nof identical ram will add speed to the motherboard ram system.\nSDRAM will not add speed to your ramm system by using two identical cards - MORE ram will certainly help.\n You really should find out what the motherboard is, and go on the website to the manufacturer ( ASUS, etc. ) and get the manual PDF file, and read what ram your computer uses, at what speed.\n ( All ram comes in sizes, and SPEEDs, so that you would waste money buying faster RAM speeds than your motherboard can use ).\n The SDRAM and the DDR ram slots are slighlty different, and\nsome newer boards have both - SD is usually about 3.3 VOLTS\nwhich is clearly, but microscopically written on the edge of the ram plastic holder, about the middle of one edge on the top, and\nthe PINS are marked clearly, but microscopically on the ends from 1 to 168 pins. The DDR, is usually about 2.1 volts, and again, is clearly but microscopically marked on the plastic...\n Don;t buy any ram unless you first find out what ram sticks are allowed by the motherboard, and exactly what speed is allowed.\nIf the motherboard only sees 3 , 128 meg, PC100 ( speed ) ram\nsticks and you buy , 3 , 256, PC 133 sticks, your motherboard can happily "see" 3 128 meg sticks ( and stop counting ), and\nstate that they are running at PC 100 speed ( that is all the motherboard can do ), and you are wasting a lot of money on\nextra ram and speed that you are not using!\n There are other issues with ram, in that there are hundreds of manufactuerers, and although the amount ( 128 Meg ) and\nthe speed ( PC100 ) may be the same, the manufactuerers \ncan arrange the ram chips on 1 or 2 sides of the chip, in sets of 2 BIT rows by 64, 4 bit rows by 32, 8 bits by 64, etc. etc. and the\nram card you buy may not work in " YOUR " computer, even though it meets the Size/Speed requirements.... \n I often take the tower into a computer store, put it on the counter, and ask the salesperson to put in the ram I am buying, and\ntest it on a monitor. Sometimes I have to get 3 sticks of ram to find one that actually works...  \n Some salespeople actually build the units, and know as a rule of thumb, the "kind" of ram that fits a certain motherboard, but the best bet is to actually try the ram in the first place... There is an\nexception to every rule...\n\nHope this helps\n\nrobin
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No, the motherboard can only handle 1 type of RAM.  Look up your motherboard model number to see how much and what type of RAM it takes.
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DDR2 is the second generation memory (240 pin DIMMs) as opposed to DDR (184 pin DIMMs).\n\nDDR3 is the latest, and has much faster clock speeds and not yet due for release.  \n\nHowever, several graphics card manufacturers are using GDDR2 and GDDR3 memory on their high end graphic cards, but the technologies are quite different.\n\nDDR3 400-800 MHz (800-1600 Mb/s)\nDDR2 200-533 MHz (400-1066 Mb/s) \nDDR  100-300 MHz (200-600 Mb/s)\n\n\nHope this helps.\n\nBattery Wizard
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For every combination of motherboard and processor, there is an optimum level of memory (RAM). It depends on the processor cache and also the speed of the buses of the motherboard. So, if the optimum memory for a particular combination is, say 1 GB, then increasing memory beyond 1 GB will not give proportionate payoffs in terms of increase in performance.\n\nSo, you need to take these things into account before you decide on the optimum RAM.
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Can I just ask why do you need more than 256MB or even 128MB memory in your graphics card? Trust me, if you're looking for better performance in video games or graphical programs this is not the solution as 128MB - 256MB is perfectly well for high details video games.\n\nAnyway, I do not think it can be done. If that's what your motherboard accepts that that's it.
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don't do it. slows stuff down. RAM is cheap. if you use multiple sticks, match by size, speed and manufacturer.
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Unfortunately for all of us, RAM is not something you can increase like you can your processing speed.  You must install more RAM physically into your computer in order to meet this requirement.  If you can't afford more RAM, the best remedy i can think of is increasing your Virtual Memory (this is the memory that a computer uses from your hard drive to act LIKE RAM).\n\n*Virtual Memory is no where near affective as actual RAM.  It is not a good nor effective way to fix your problem, however, it may solve your problem temporarily if you simply/absolutely CANNOT afford more. (RAM is really cheap.  Go to www.tigerdirect.com)\n\nTo increase your Virtual Memory, Go to My Computer and right click somewhere inside that box *click properties*.  Go to the "Advanced" tab on the box that pops up.  Under the Performance section, click Settings.  Under that Settings box that pops up, go to the Advanced tab and look at the bottom section labeled "Virtual Memory", click Change.  Now you can add whatever amount of memory desired in order to increase your virtual memory.  Remember, this will NOT completely fix your problem, only lessen the effect of not having enough RAM.  Once you save up enough memory, I would recommend fixing all your problems by buying a single 1024mb (1gb) RAM chip (you won't have to worry about problems any more)