new setup. questions about SATA, PSU and ram

What is your RAM install like now?

You should have 4 DIMM slots...what/how much is where?

I have two Geil sticks in dual channel in the first two.

2x256mb?
If so, adding two more 256s would keep you in dual channel (all four slots filled).
Adding a single 512 will put you in single channel.

Mixing dissimilar RAM can work, but is not the preferred option.

er.. their both 512 I'm going to buy another stick of 512.

So having 3 sticks kills my current dual channel?

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Originally Posted by Shiranai_Baka

after some use of this new setup, I find it is not up to my expectations since I'm downloading 3-5gig files, its taking up my ram on azureus and thinking of buying another 512. Is it okay for me to put another stick of ram while there is a dual channel setup already?

If it is okay, then can it be a different brand of ram?

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1 gb of RAM is already a lot. If a downloading program is using it all then there's a problem with the software.

Man azureus got some mem leaking problems. Have you read up on that? Try testing a different bittorent client for a while?

well, which would you guys prefer? I had the same problem with ABC and PTC or something like that.