The title sums up the question.
I have the following in inventory:
1 256MB of PC3200 RAM
1 512MB of PC2100 RAM
and tomorrow I get:
1 512MB of PC3200 RAM
My eMachines takes PC3200 and it came with 256MB. Now it has only 2 DIMM slots, so I can only combine 2 of the 3 available RAM chips.
The only possible combinations are
768MB of PC3200 RAM (256MB PC3200 + 512MB PC2100)
1024MB of PC2100 RAM (512MB PC3200 + 512MB PC2100)
since if I put in the 512MB of PC2100 it will slow the rest to that speed.
So what should I do? What would yield higher performance?
I put in the 512MB PC2100 for now until I get the package tomorrow and it greatly speeded things up even though all 768MB are now at PC2100.
I have the following in inventory:
1 256MB of PC3200 RAM
1 512MB of PC2100 RAM
and tomorrow I get:
1 512MB of PC3200 RAM
My eMachines takes PC3200 and it came with 256MB. Now it has only 2 DIMM slots, so I can only combine 2 of the 3 available RAM chips.
The only possible combinations are
768MB of PC3200 RAM (256MB PC3200 + 512MB PC2100)
1024MB of PC2100 RAM (512MB PC3200 + 512MB PC2100)
since if I put in the 512MB of PC2100 it will slow the rest to that speed.
So what should I do? What would yield higher performance?
I put in the 512MB PC2100 for now until I get the package tomorrow and it greatly speeded things up even though all 768MB are now at PC2100.