Julian Thomas wrote:
> Am I better off with 1 gb of memory running as DDR400 or 1.25 GB at DDR
> 333?  My mobo (Asus K8VSE Deluxe) has 3 ram slots, but if you populate all
> three, it won't do DDR400.

Not sure if your motherboard shows "dual channel" or "128bit
mode" when 
it starts up, but if it does, don't bother adding RAM.  You'll lose the 
benefit of dual-channel by using that third slot, and if you're not 
using most of the 1GB, it's not going to make that much of a difference 
anyway, adding in just 256MB more.

There's a Linux-based MEMTEST utility I use to test and benchmark RAM 
speeds before I ship out PC's... I'll send it to you, if you like... 
it's an ISO file that you burn as a bootable CD, and it just 
automatically starts up, shows you CPU clock speed, L1 and L2 cache 
amounts and access speeds, and the speed (DDR400, etc), and mode the 
memory is being accessed in - single or dual channel, and the CAS/RAS 
timings, expressed like 2.5-3-3-5, for example.  Using the time it takes 
to run through the complete memory test, you can also see if the 
computer's any faster plowing through things when you alter the RAM speeds.

(Yes, I'm a geek... :)  )

-Derek


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