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Old 05-14-2002, 05:31 PM   #1
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384 MB CL-3 or 256 MB CL-2?

I recently bought a stick of Micron PC133 256 MB CL-2 for my PC. Currently, I have PC-133 128MB CL-3 memory in there. My question is, should I sell the 128 MB stick so that I can run the 256 MB stick at CL-2 but only have 256 MB memory, or do I keep the 128 MB stick and have 384 MB but only CL-3? I use my PC for just about everything, including gaming (which I do more frequently than I should ). Here are my system specs:

Duron 700@950
Epox 8kta+ mobo (kt-133a chipset)
leadtek geforce DDR video card
20 GB WD 7200RPM hard drive
SB Live! x-gamer sound card

So you can see its not the fastest rig around, but I think the extra memory (whichever upgrade path I choose) will give this old rig a kick in the rear end.
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Old 05-14-2002, 06:06 PM   #2
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imho, at 133, and for general use, i'd reccomend 256 CL2. in most game this should be fine, especially with a decent leadtek with ddr, (tho u don't say how much)

the fact that ur not using onbaoard vga or sound will help free up some memory bandwith anyway, so i reckon you should be fine with less ram and less latency
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