Are gigahertz bigger than  gigabytes?
819635
Gigahertz is used for the frequency of the processor and Gigabytes is used for for the storage of the computer. There is no connection between the two.
568751
The 64 MB is better.\n\nIf you ask me though, they're both horrible cards. I hope you don't plan on using it for gaming.
1071402
a gigabyte is 1024 megabytes, which is 1024 kilobytes, and again a kilobyte is 1024 bytes, which is 8 bits. so if you buy a MP3 that holds 512 MB, it's 1/2 of a gigabyte
907269
Well the second guy is half right, you can of course install them in different sizes.  However to call the performance gain "amazing" is a bit of a stretch.  Plus, you would be forfeiting dual channel mode if you install in different sizes, which is a bad thing.  My suggestion is to save up until you can afford the full upgrade to 2GB.
795605
Different in speed. do the 2x1Gig for dual channel purposes..
231641
There's nothing wrong with your drive or computer. The discrepancy you're seeing occurs because Windows (and nearly all other operating systems too) calculates hard drive sizes in a different manner than do drive manufacturers. One uses binary and the other uses decimal. Rather than writing it all out, read this below:\n\n""Marketing" capacity versus true capacity\n\nHard drive manufacturers often use the metric definition of the prefixes "giga" and "mega", whilst nearly all operating system utilities report capacities using binary definitions for the prefixes. This is largely for historical reasons, since when storage capacities started to exceed thousands of bytes, there were no standard binary prefixes. The IEC only standardized binary prefixes in 1999, so 210 (1024) bytes was called a kilobyte because 1024 is "close enough" to the metric prefix kilo, which is defined as 103 or 1000. This trend became habit and continued to be applied to the prefixes "mega," "giga," and even "tera." Obviously the discrepancy becomes much more noticeable in reported capacities in the multiple gigabyte range, and users will often notice that the volume capacity reported by their OS is significantly less than that advertised by the hard drive manufacturer. For example, a drive advertised as 200 GB can be expected to store close to 200 x 109, or 200 billion, bytes. This uses the proper SI definition of "giga," 109 and can be considered as an approximation of a gibibyte. Since utilities provided by the operating system probably define a gigabyte as 230, or 1073741824, bytes, the reported capacity of the drive will be closer to 186.26 GB (actually, GiB), a difference of well over 7 percent. For this very reason, many utilities that report capacity have begun to use the aforementioned IEC standard binary prefixes (e.g. KiB, MiB, GiB) since their definitions are unambiguous.\n\nAnother side point is that many people mistakenly attribute the discrepancy in reported and advertised capacities to reserved space used for file system and partition accounting information. However, for large (several GiB) filesystems, this data rarely occupies more than several MiB, and therefore cannot possibly account for the apparent "loss" of tens of GBs."\n\n\nIf you want to read the whole article, see here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_drives
514792
lets see.. 2mbps versus 12mbps (normal) or 480mbps (high speed)...\ngo pick up a pci usb 2.0 HS card.
1072765
Actually, this is not quite correct. There is something more advance being researched and discussed: ferroelectric RAM, a revolutionary new type of chips that can hold 12TB or something like that in the space of one of the silicon chips of today's RAM. Google ferro-electric ram and see what pops up.
618385
I've found Gigabyte to be one of the most reliable around. I currently run one with a P4 3G. Built it early last year.
787750
a gigabyte, or GB is 2000KB\ngiga = million, kilo = thousand (kg=kilobyte)
441258
Gigabyte = 1024 Megabytes\n\nRefers to:\nA) Hard Drive size\nB) RAM size\nC) Flash Drive size\n\nDoesn't apply to:\nA) CPU speed\nB) Fan speed
939946
There are 1000 MB in 1 GB   So 512MB would be the same as about .5GB.   The 2GB is much bigger. \n\nGood luck and Happy Computing!
62915
AGP's a little bit smaller and farther in from the edge than a PCI. Usually AGP's are closer to the CPU and come in different shapes (8x, 4x).
106363
in case you wonder bout any others here are some\n\n1,000 bytes in a kilobyte\n1,000,000 bytes in a megabyte\n1,000,000,000 bytes in a giga byte\nbut tecniclyy speaking there are EXACTLY\n1,024 bytes in a kilobyte\n1,048,576 bytes in a megabyte\n1,073,721,824 bytes in a gigabyte\n\nbut thats being exact
16374
Send up to one gigabyte:\nhttp://www.yousendit.com/
699358
microsoft measures gigabytes differently than the rest of the world. they are both correct.
10319
Technically 1,024.  But most hard drive manufacturers count 1,000 megabytes in a gig.