Journal #5835
Posted 15 years ago2009-06-01 13:40:07 UTC
PC Upgrade !
New memories arrived at my door today !
4x1GB DDR2 1066 mhz , Kingston HyperX !!
Here they are, I already installed them in the pc ( you can see the metallic things near the CPU cooler) :
Here are the old rams :
Those were 2x1 GB Corsair Twin DDR2 800 mhz, Enhaced Performance Profile.
I think I'm going to keep them for now, in the current month I'll run my pc with the new memories to see if I get BSODs ( with the corsair ones I never had) . But after that, over the summer I'll sell them ( I only used them half a year) , add some money and get a new motherboard with an E8400 or E8500. Or maybe keep the money for the next 2-3 years and build a Nehalem platform
[EDIT] Who tells me the correct total numbers of cooling fans from my computer wins the Eagle Eye Award
New memories arrived at my door today !
4x1GB DDR2 1066 mhz , Kingston HyperX !!
Here they are, I already installed them in the pc ( you can see the metallic things near the CPU cooler) :
I think I'm going to keep them for now, in the current month I'll run my pc with the new memories to see if I get BSODs ( with the corsair ones I never had) . But after that, over the summer I'll sell them ( I only used them half a year) , add some money and get a new motherboard with an E8400 or E8500. Or maybe keep the money for the next 2-3 years and build a Nehalem platform
[EDIT] Who tells me the correct total numbers of cooling fans from my computer wins the Eagle Eye Award
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wow i didn't think ddr2 ran at that fast bus speed but i don't really know a lot about ram.. when i got my ddr3 1066 with the matching data bus last year i felt like hot shit..
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The_(c)Striker I have that exact corsair memory only two 2 gig sticks. I ordered them from Newegg and the first time I received them they were bad, so I had to send them back. The new ones worked until recently when my psu died and the memory went with it.
Congrats on the new memory :]
Firefox with aprox 30 tabs
Chrome with aprox 50 tabs
Need For Speed Undercover
Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl
Skype, Yahoo, MSN
Comodo Firewall, Avast!
What can I say ? It consumed aprox 90% of the identified ram ( 3.5 gb out of 4 gb, I'm running xp 32 bit). That's 3,24 GB of Ram.
And the awesome thing was that I could switch with alt+tab from game to game and from application to application and the performance wasn't much affected
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Nehalem platform ? Sorry for my bad english , well ... an i7 computer that's what I meant !
Unless you're using 64-bit OS, the memory upgrade wouldn't really make sense.
I'm going to buy 2 GB more. Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and 64 bit Linux can use a maximum of 128GB or 16EB, so having more than 3GB RAM is not an argument for getting Windows Vista/7. I'll probably "buy" Windows 7 anyway, once it gets stable. Probably.
So all that bullshit with only 2 GB under Windows XP 32 Bit is nonsense for me.
Yes, it limits the amount of ram. But not to 2 . To 3,5 GB , for me
And I got the rams for free, I only paid the transport. I worked on a site , making some reviews. So why not use them ? Especially that sometimes I need more than 2 GB of ram ( like video editing).
32 bit