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12-06-2004, 04:18 PM
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| O rly/Ya Rly  Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Sacred Heart
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| Memory advice I want a gig  At the moment i have 2 sticks of 256mb TwinMos 3200 winbond. I want another 512mb of ram to boost me to a gig. Do i have to buy the exact same memory as before or could i get away with a 512 stick of non winbond twinmos or a stick of crucial. 512 Twinmos winbond is quite pricey at the moment. Would i be asking for trouble- im just thinking if its decent stuff then it should be ok right? Or should i stop being so damn impatient and wait for ram prices to drop- my system could be on a zimmer frame by then though All advice appreciated guys   |
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12-06-2004, 04:36 PM
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| Whether it's "Winbond" or not won't make any difference I shouldn't think. What is Winbond anyway? Is it just better chips or something? But yeah you can stick any old other 512 stick in there and it'd be fine, so I'm sure normal TwinMOS is fine. Home cinema: Toshiba 42XV555DB Full HD LCD | Onkyo TX-SR705 | NAD C352 | Monitor Audio Bronze B2 | Monitor Audio Bronze C | Monitor Audio Bronze BFX | Yamaha NSC120 | BK Monolith sub | Toshiba HD-EP35 HD-DVD | Samsung BD-P1400 BluRay Player | Pioneer DV-575 | Squeezebox3 | Virgin Media V+ Box PC: Asus P5B | Core2duo 2.13GHz | 2GB DDR2 PC6400 | Inno3d iChill 7900GS | Auzentech X-Plosion 7.1 | 250GB | 500GB | NEC DVDRW | Dual AG Neovo 19" HTPC: | Core2Duo E6420 2.13GHz | 2GB DDR2 | 250GBx2 | Radeon X1300 | Terratec Aureon 7.1 | Windows MCE 2005 Laptop: 1.5GHz Centrino | 512MB | 60GB | 15" Wide TFT | Wifi | DVDRW |
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12-06-2004, 04:48 PM
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| As long as the timings are the same it shouldnt make much difference, obviously you get a slower stick and all the timings will be slow. | XP1600-m | ASUS AN78X Deluxe | r9700 pro | 2x512mb pc37000 | |
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12-06-2004, 04:50 PM
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 | Might have to up the voltage on the DIMM's as some motherboards need it if you have them fully populated. Not sure how the two memory controllers would work with that extra stick in either... |
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15-06-2004, 12:37 AM
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| Originally Posted by chiyau very good deal
It cost me £95 for 2 sticks of 2nd hand 512Mb Twinmoss Winbond when the ram prices were lower, and that was a good deal. So a gig of geil for £110 new, with spreaders, is a great price Desktop: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton, 1024Mb PC-3200 TwinMOS w/Winbond, MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR, Radeon 9800SE AIW, 40 GB 7,200 Rpm Hitachi Deskstar, 120GB 7,200 Rpm 8mb Cache Maxtor Diamond 9, 160GB 7200 Rpm 8mb Cache Seagate 7200.7 SATA, Plextor 708A 8x DVD-RW, 550W PFC Q-tec PSU, Casetek 1019SM Silver Case, Camdridge Soundworks DTT2200 Speakers Laptop: Clevo D470W - 17" Widescreen TFT, Intel Pentium4 3.06Ghz 533FSB, 1024Mb PC-2700 Hynix, Radeon Mobility 9000 64Mb, Fujitsu 80Gb 4,200rpm, 250Gb 7,2000rpm 8mb Cache Maxtor OneTouch, Toshiba SD-R6372 DVD-RW +/- x4, Built-in Four speakers, webcam and microphone |
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