More slower or less faster?

[matt fury]

OK, so I'm setting up a new system here, and at my disposal I have 4 512mb sticks of recent BH-5 Twinmos pc3200, and 4 256mb sticks of Corsair XMS 3200. The system I'm putting together will be using a Chaintech NF4-Ultra with a amd64 3000+. I'm assuming the 2gigs of Twinmos would outperform the 1gb of XMS, right? Now what if I tweaked the XMS to it's potential, would the the larger amount of Twinmos still be preferable? TIA.

 

[(cf)Eclipse]

ew.. 4 sticks. do you have anything that really needs more than 1gb of ram?

 

[matt fury]

EQ2 seems to be pretty ram intensive. I guess that adds another possibility..would it be better to just use 2x 512mb Twinmos?

 

[(cf)Eclipse]

well, 4x512mb will mean 2T command rate and possibly 166mhz, depending on what cpu core that is. i would try 4x512mb and see how well it works. compare it to 2x512mb, and see which you like better