new setup. questions about SATA, PSU and ram

[clocker]

What is your RAM install like now?

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

[Shiranai_Baka]

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

[clocker]

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.

[Shiranai_Baka]

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

So having 3 sticks kills my current dual channel?

[Virtualbody1234]

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?

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

[SaYiaN]

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

[Shiranai_Baka]

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