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Paul Harris
Hi.
Up until recently, I have had 2 sticks of Crucial 512mb PC2700 DDR RAM in my
computer. Unfortunately, one of them broke so lately I have been using just
1 stick of 512mb and since then it seems that my system has become more
unstable with some applications/games developing a tendency to crash for no
apparent reason (Kazaa Lite, GTA:Vice City, Thief). I am reliably informed
that that sort of thing often happens when there is only 1 RAM module
instead of 2 or more, regardless of size.
The point is, I obviously need another RAM module but I am somewhat skint
recently so I can't really afford another 512mb so I was thinking of getting
a smaller module, maybe 128mb at least temporarily to sort out the crashing
problems (plus my motherboard has 128-bit dual channel memory architecture.)
However, I heard that it is advisable to use 2 (or more) RAM modules that
are the same size rather than mixing and matching sizes.
Please advice.
Thanks
Up until recently, I have had 2 sticks of Crucial 512mb PC2700 DDR RAM in my
computer. Unfortunately, one of them broke so lately I have been using just
1 stick of 512mb and since then it seems that my system has become more
unstable with some applications/games developing a tendency to crash for no
apparent reason (Kazaa Lite, GTA:Vice City, Thief). I am reliably informed
that that sort of thing often happens when there is only 1 RAM module
instead of 2 or more, regardless of size.
The point is, I obviously need another RAM module but I am somewhat skint
recently so I can't really afford another 512mb so I was thinking of getting
a smaller module, maybe 128mb at least temporarily to sort out the crashing
problems (plus my motherboard has 128-bit dual channel memory architecture.)
However, I heard that it is advisable to use 2 (or more) RAM modules that
are the same size rather than mixing and matching sizes.
Please advice.
Thanks