Andreas Karlsson wrote: >On Saturday 28 May 2005 10.17, Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila wrote: > > >>Hi. >> >>I have to choose between: >> >>- Purchase 1GB DDR400 (2x512MB) value RAM. >>- Purchase 512M DDR400 (2x256MB) good CL2 RAM. >> >>It's for a home machine (A7N8X-Deluxe MB, Athlon XP 2600+)... Sometimes >>i have to use vmware. >> >>Thanks in advance, cheers. >> >>[sinatura] A ouvir (mpc): The Smashing Pumpkins - Where Boys Fear to >>Tread >>> GPG KeyID:0x9D2FD6C8 [\sinatura] >> >> > >I´d go for the 1 GB anyday. And the chooise get even more obvious when you >want to use vmware. > >
I agree. The system will peform better overall with more RAM, because even though the "fast" RAM might be 10% faster, your hard-disk is 100x slower, so you really want to avoid swapping at all. You might be interested in a recent review of 'value' DDR400 memory at anandtech: http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2392 -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
