Hello Julian
  First off it seems as if you are upgrading a somewhat older board since
it is DDR v1 while newest is DDR v3.  This is in no way meant as any kind
of demeaning statement since I have that, too.  The point is, or rather
"points are"
  1) 2 steps behind current means considerable savings on ram per size unit
   2) Until it passes far enough out of mainstream that supply diminishes
and prices go back up
  3)  We are always going to need more and more ram

Therefore it might be wise to either
   a) use all 4 sticks at full speed
          or, better
   b) purchase 2 1G sticks or so and get both size and speed while prices
are low, that is unless you plan to retire this mobo soon, but if you plan
to eke out every last bit of usage, as most of us do, it is generally wiser
to bite the bullet and get it all now since it isn't like;y you are going
to stop using computers in the next 5 years and you can all but guarantee
that in 5 years time you will be running considerably more than 1G of ram
regardless of OS, though obviously more if the OS is redmond/borland based,
ie fenetres.

  However to answer your question directly, I would opt for the speed since
it has correctly been pointed out that striping utilizes Double Data Rate
which is indeed nearlty double speed from unstriped.  The percentage gain
of 256M compared to 1000M is perhaps 25% wheras the speed gain is double. 
Ideally get more ram now.
Jimmy

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Julian Thomas" 
> In , on 01/09/08 
>    at 07:24 PM, Ed Durrant  typed:
> >Julian Thomas wrote:

> 
> Let me clarify. I currently have the two 256meg PC3200 sticks, and am
> ordering two 512meg PC3200 sticks. The mobo has three sockets. According
> to the mobo manual, if I only populate two sockets, I can run the board at
> DDR400, but if all three are populated, I must use DDR333. The Bios has
> the option to set memclock to CPU clock ratio to either 'auto' or to
> DDRxxx.
> 
> Now, the question is, which will work better - 1 GIG at DDR400, or 1.25
> GIG at DDR300.
>  
> -- 
>  Julian Thomas:   jt{at}jt-mj.net    http://jt-mj.net
>




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