Well I'm officially an idiot. I built my PC back in December E6550 with 4GB of memory, installed vista32. I saw the amount of ram these days so I decided to buy some to have 8GB. I got the ram today and went to install it. Looking at the bios on boot I saw 4GB of memory single channel. I'm like uhhhh what?? So I look in the bios for settings to see anything related to dual channel. Then I realize that both of my sticks I had installed were on the left slots together. I assume you have to have one on the left and right side for 2 sticks to have dual channel? Well I install the additional 4GB on the right side and get it booted. Now it shows dual channel interlaced memory, so I guess I've been running the past year at single channel speeds?
Anyways I got the vista 64 install and holy shit does my system fly now. I clicked shutdown and in 2 seconds my whole system was off. Holy SHIT. Its amazing how much faster it is now, not sure if its the ram/ 64bit OS or a combination. I'm probably gonna upgrade the CPU next, debating a 8500 or a Q9550.
I'll be up to 5terabytes of storage by the end of the week when my 3rd 1.5TB drive arrives.
Anyways I got the vista 64 install and holy shit does my system fly now. I clicked shutdown and in 2 seconds my whole system was off. Holy SHIT. Its amazing how much faster it is now, not sure if its the ram/ 64bit OS or a combination. I'm probably gonna upgrade the CPU next, debating a 8500 or a Q9550.
I'll be up to 5terabytes of storage by the end of the week when my 3rd 1.5TB drive arrives.