Question about Ram

[digitalnerd]

I'm planning on buying a 512mb of ram, right now i have 256 in my computer. There's not a reason that I should get another 256mb of ram instead of the 512 is there?

Right now I have 256MB DDR SDRAM @ 333MHZ.

Also I have Windows XP would buying RAM at a differenet speed okay or should I stick with 333MHZ?

Thanks alot..

 

[xonik]

Different capacity is fine, as is different speed. Of course, the speed should be the same or higher than what your motherboard and chipset specify. Which motherboard and/or chipset are you using?

 

[djnes]

Anytime you buy different speeds or different brands, there's a chance they won't play nice together. And as xonik said, without giving us system info, it's hard to answer. If your chipset supports dual channel....you will want to be another of EXACTLY what you have in there now.

 

[digitalnerd]

Umm I have a Dell Dimension 4550 Series
Pentium 4 Processor at 2.53GHz with 512L2 cache, I haven't ever took it apart to look at the motherboard and stuff.

 

[MontyAC]

Since this isn't a dual channel board, get whatever size ram stick you like. Just make sure the ram speed is the same.

 

[xonik]

I haven't had trouble with mixing different speeds of RAM since the PC100/133 days. Your results may vary, of course, but I think you'll be okay.

 

[djnes]

Originally posted by xonik
I haven't had trouble with mixing different speeds of RAM since the PC100/133 days. Your results may vary, of course, but I think you'll be okay.

I had trouble with Kingston ValueRAM and pretty much anything else in the system Since it's an OE machine, it probably has some shitty memory in it.