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maormini
7th May 2003, 19:28
Hi

I just bought a new ASUS A7N8X Deluxe board (Which has dual DDR support) and I was wondering if I should buy 2x256 or 2x512 of DDR memory.

Is there any difference in performance? If so is it noticeable?
My main use of this computer is compressing to DivX, will I have an advantage with a total of 1GB DDR memory over 512?
Shootist
12th May 2003, 19:53
Originally posted by maormini
Hi

I just bought a new ASUS A7N8X Deluxe board (Which has dual DDR support) and I was wondering if I should buy 2x256 or 2x512 of DDR memory.

Is there any difference in performance? If so is it noticeable?
My main use of this computer is compressing to DivX, will I have an advantage with a total of 1GB DDR memory over 512?


I do not think there are difference (only the price is different).

In my opinion you will not gain more speed from more RAM. instead of that, buy a better cpu or overclock it with a better cooling.
brashquido
15th May 2003, 08:46
I agree with Shootist. You'll be better served by getting some nice 256MB modules of PC3200 or even PC3500 than 2 modules of 512MB PC2700 or PC2100.

Get the faster ram and increase your FSB as far as it will go while being Prime95 stable, and you'll be amazed with the results. Have a look at the results (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=52710) I got with my overclocking. Not a 100% apples to apples comparision, but amply demonstrates how the increased FSB and resulting memory/CPU bandwidth increase returns far higher video encoding performance.
kaitsuburi
15th May 2003, 09:24
Originally posted by Shootist
In my opinion you will not gain more speed from more RAM. instead of that, buy a better cpu or overclock it with a better cooling.

I second that. Unless you're doing heavy video editing, you don't need the extra RAM. Often when you load your CPU the bottleneck won't be the RAM but the CPU. As brashquido suggested, get quality RAM (Corsair, GEIL, OCZ) and try some overclocking.

-kaitsuburi

ps. regarding overclocking the nvidia2 board, check out this site and its forums (if you haven't):

http://www.nforcershq.com/