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Ram question...do I get it?
You can see by my signature what my system looks like. I'm not a gamer. I entered gaming with Pong and left with the original Mario Bros. (played on a trip to Japan before the game came to the US) I never got past level 2 if that's any indication. So chewing gum and walking in a simultaneous manner is flat out.
My hobby is flight simulation. I get to play with the airplane's computer that my computer is computing.
So for the most part my rig is profound overkill (ya think? ...a quad running XP instead of a hot duo?) but the day just might come...that Windows 7 is something better than...well you know...and maybe I can dual boot? The new MS FlightsimX only runs on Vista and all my money is tied up with the prior version running on XP.
So...to make a short story long, I'd like to bring my memory in line with the rest of my hardware. From what I've gleaned from several articles is that a nice set of 2 x 2BG G.SKILL PI black PC2-6400 is good enough. PC2-8500, though in theory more bandwidth, really isn't worth the investment in the kind of computing I do... unless... I'm missing something. I do some folding at home which does use all 4 cores via SMP... so occasionally put a bit of a strain on the old girl. Realize XP wasn't really designed for more than 2gig but will use around 3 if present? Feel free to set me straight...thanks!
My hobby is flight simulation. I get to play with the airplane's computer that my computer is computing.
So for the most part my rig is profound overkill (ya think? ...a quad running XP instead of a hot duo?) but the day just might come...that Windows 7 is something better than...well you know...and maybe I can dual boot? The new MS FlightsimX only runs on Vista and all my money is tied up with the prior version running on XP. So...to make a short story long, I'd like to bring my memory in line with the rest of my hardware. From what I've gleaned from several articles is that a nice set of 2 x 2BG G.SKILL PI black PC2-6400 is good enough. PC2-8500, though in theory more bandwidth, really isn't worth the investment in the kind of computing I do... unless... I'm missing something. I do some folding at home which does use all 4 cores via SMP... so occasionally put a bit of a strain on the old girl. Realize XP wasn't really designed for more than 2gig but will use around 3 if present? Feel free to set me straight...thanks!
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