Abhishek Reddy — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 07:07:37 +0000

teammatt3;215384 wrote: I was wondering if it is worth the extra hundred bucks to get another gig stick for dual channel.

Well, that's impossible for us to say, as you'd have to consider the opportunity cost yourself.

teammatt3;215384 wrote: Do you think I'll notice a performance increase? The only real intensive programs I run are Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Half-Life 1-2. I use/play these all the time so it'd be nice for them to run a faster.

What do you think?

Sure, if I had nothing better to spend my money on, I'd go for the extra RAM. Given that you have a 10,000 RPM HDD, you'll probably notice the improvement. It can be worth the extra money.

teammatt3;215384 wrote: EDIT: Geez, Firefox uses more memory than ImageReady and Dreamweaver combined, you better add that to memory intensive apps.

Yeah, especially if you run a lot of big extensions.

demonhale — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:41:43 +0000

Well It does really push the wait time... I should say you should add that other DDR and get 2Gig worth of mem on your machine. What I do advise after installing it though is to go to expert mode and set your page file usage on the disk to low, making it use the new RAM modules more for a faster machine...

teammatt3 — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:32:49 +0000

Nobody besides jjack has an opinion on dual channel ram? You guys are supposed to be on top of the tech chain

jjack — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:08:07 +0000

If you decide to move to Windows Vista I would recommend it. Word on the street is that it's a huge memory hog, and 1 gig is about the bare minimum if you want it to run smoothly.