On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:34:37 GMT, newbee wrote:

Hil all,

Which is better and faster utilization of memory on Window XP 32Bit,
is it

One stick of 2 GB or

Two sticks of 1 GM or

Four sticks of 512 Mb

If you have only one memory stick and it goes, you're dead in the
water. Multi is always better, and I would prefer four 512MB matching
sticks with four slots and no plans for adding more memory (XP won't
use more than about 2.5GB anyway).

Also which is better, Single Sided or Double Sided ?

That probably doesn't matter much now, but given a choice I'd keep on
the simple side and pick singles. Of course, your motherboard may
dictate that for you.

Does Window XP utilize all the 2GB memory. I am using old Abit mother
board with Athlon 1700, which I started with 512 Mb of memory and then
I added another stick of 512 Mb, I did not notice any difference. By
the way I use Adobe Premier and Photoshop.

XP as an OS alone won't use 2GB, but some installed programs probably
will. Graphics processing, particularly movies, can use a lot of
memory. I noticed a decided improvement in that area when I went from
1GB to 2GB.

I'm surprised you didn't see a difference between 512MB and 1GB, but
systems are different. My experience is with Intel CPUs, so you can
take all this with whatever size grain of salt it's worth.

Larc



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