Ram modules configuration

[Askari]

I have an Intel 915GUX board. It has 4 ram slots.

I am wondering which is the best way to configure the ram:

Channel A Slot 0: 1024MB
Channel A Slot 1: 512MB
Channel B Slot 0: 1024MB
Channel B Slot 1: 512MB

OR:

Channel A Slot 0: 1024MB
Channel A Slot 1: 1024MB
Channel B Slot 0: 512MB
Channel B Slot 1: 512MB

[TG]

Second option

[WAJKILLER2]

Jup second, keeps the sticks kinda paired.

[Askari]

Fanks. Gonna do it now

[Darnit696]

IMHO it will depend on whether your Mobo pairs the ram for Double Data Rate. For the ram to work in DDR the chips need to match as far as I know. Are the slots colour coded? IE Channel A both the same, and Channel B both the same. Or Colour coded with both the slot 0 the same and Slot 1 both the same. On my Mobo the memory slots are colour coded Green Blue Green Blue, for the DDR to work You need to pur matching Ram into both green or both blue. In my case I have two 1gig in the Green and two 512 in the blue. On startup the mobo reports the memory as working in DDR mode.

Hope this helps

Google Tomshardware.

Very good site for answering those questions.

[Scooby_Doo16]

Yeah i have 2 512 modules and i put them in th A1 and A0 slots and on start up it says for best performance that u should have the same amount of ram in each slot ie: 512 in A1 and 512 in B1 for me
and for you in

512 in A1 and 512 B1 and then 1G in B0 and 1G in A0.

[Askari]

LOL. i better go swop it back to like i had it.....

They are colour coded so Channel A has a blue dimm 0 and a black dimm 1
and channel B has a blue dimm 0 and a black dimm 1 as well. So based on this i should have 1Gig modules in the blue slots and the 512MB modules in the black?

[TG]

Yep. That's the way to do it.

[sss]

how odd!!

[Askari]

Odd how?

[sss]

ohh.. the dimms are coloured..not the slots... i thought it was like

CHANNEL A slot 0= blue
CHANNEL A slot 1= black

CHANNEL B slot 0= blue
CHANNEL B slot 1= black

[Askari]

Well ja the actual slots are coloured blue/black not the DIMMs themselves. On the motherboard they are just marked dimm0, dimm1 imstead of slot0/slot1

Anyways, its all working great and I have to tell you guys that BF2 on 3Gigs of RAM running in Dual Channell FORKING ROCKS!!!!!

The game loads in about a third of the time, new games online load and start just as quick, that choppiness in the beginning of a game is now no-existant. Im loaded, in the game and running around getting killed in a fraction of the time now!