07-11-2005, 09:03 AM
Griselda,Jul 10 2005, 11:03 PM Wrote:One option would be to find the manufacturer and model number of your motherboard on Everest (when the program window is open, go to "motherboard", then click on "motherboard", then look at what's written under "motherboard name." You should be able to plug that information into this website (select "motherboards" for the first pulldown) and it will suggest compatible memory for you. You don't have to buy from them, of course, but you'll know what you're looking for and will start to get an idea of price.
Or, you could go back to Everest, return to motherboard -> motherboard, then scroll down to "motherboard physical info". See what it says under "RAM slots" and that should tell you what type of RAM you will need. For example, mine says "4 DDR DIMM", so I need to buy DDR RAM that fits a DIMM slot, and I have a total of 4 slots on my board. That doesn't tell you what kind of DDR RAM for some reason, though (I have SDRAM), but you can go to computer -> summary and scroll down to motherboard, then see what it says under "system memory". On my computer, that's where it specifies SDRAM, anyway.
Anyway, good luck! :)
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DDR Ram IS SDRAM. DDR SDRAM. many many different flavors of it.
The best for an AGP motherboard is PC3200 at 400MHz Bus speeds. Not all MB's will accept.
Best for PCI Express is... Can't remember. PC6700? It's like 677MHz bus speed.
Dual channel is like raid 0. Splits all info between two ram chips, pulls from them simultaneously, even on AGP. MUCH faster for games and DB work, as well as CGI editing, completely useless for anything else.
Best way to go for AGP (how I do it on my desktop) is 4 chips (two matched pairs) of 1GB sticks of PC3200. Add to that an HT proc and a 512MB 3D Labs R200 video card, and you're slammin.