gahertrj

Hello guys. I've recently been discovering that there's apparently a lot more to ram than I first thought there to be. My question is this:

Basically I've got 4 512 sticks in my PC now PC 5400 4-4-4-12 latency. What I want to do is upgrade to the 4gb max that vista will allow.

Basically I've got these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227077

Thinking of getting:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227269

and just selling the others if I can.

I'm using
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813188012
and
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115003

for a mobo and processor


Now from what I've been reading it seems you want to match your ram speed with your FSB speed. Now my fsb is 1066, the mobo I've got only supports 1066/1333 FSB speeds. Now here's wher it gets odd, the memory apparently is only supported up to 800mhz? or does that mean it can only run in dual channel up to 800 mhz because it mentions something in the manual about going to a max of 1200?

So do I lose dual channel and match the speeds or keep dual channel and go with the 800's. Or can that mobo do dual channel mode with 1066 memory?

Any insight would be appreciated.

Underclocker

Your mobo only supports 800MHz RAM, so those sticks you're looking at will do fine in dual channel mode. It should dual channel at any speed but going above 800MHz would be overclocking so I suggest keeping them at 800MHz. Going to a max of 1200 only means that the board can overclock to a max of 1200MHz with the right hardware. Only overclock if you know what you are doing as it can damage your components.

emosun

Make sure you have a 64bit os otherwise your pc will only use 3 gb. Also your mother board has a maximum of 8gb of ram not 4. And I beleive vista as an os supports up to 16 or 32gb of ram(64bit).