Purchasing RAM Hi mdsaeed, I was hoping you might help me with this 1: What's the diff between say, 4gb of 667 or 800Mhz ram and 2gb of 1066 or 1200? Is less Ram at high speed a better option? I guess it goes without saying that 4gb at 1200Mhz would be ideal, but I dont think I can afford that. Mobo is ASUS p5q se/r

Hi Anon
the Gateway MX8734 motherboard has two memory slots each capable of handling a maximum of 2gb of ram.
So, 2gb is the largest single ram module, and 4gb is the largest total amount of ram.
If you are uncertain if your motherboard is capable of handling a 4gb ram upgrade then check with the memory suppliers first.
In practice I have always found that the performance difference between 2gb and 4gb of ram is slight.

Hi

The maximum this motherboard can support is a total of 4Gb DDR2 RAM.

The maximum each of the 2 RAM slot can take is 2Gb.

See here for the full technical details:

http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/dg31pr/sb/CS-027918.htm

I hope this helps.

Hi,

This motherboard will support only Maximum 2GB DDR2 RAMS.

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Hello, The max RAM you can insert is 2GB here is the output from crucial.com

• Chipset: Intel 945GSE
• Drive Form Factor: 2.5"
• Drive Interface: SATA
• Maximum Memory: 2048MB (2GB)
• Slots: 1 (1 bank of 1)
• Standard Memory: 1024MB removable
• USB Support: 2.x Compliant

Hope this helps!

Make sure you have installed the correct type of ram into the board. Here are the ram specs for that board
• Memory:
Support DDR2 533/667 MHz
2 x DDR2 DIMM Memory Slot
Max. Supports up to 4GB Memory


Hope this helps

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Regardless of the speed RAM is nothing more then a container for running programs. Hence the more ram you have the more programs you can run concurrently (at the same time)

Speed has to do with how fast the running programs can be put into and accessed within the RAM.

Hope this helps

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Ok first off, you're right. 4GB at 1200MHz would be ideal, but there's only one problem. Alot of computers don't have a 1.2GHz front side bus.. so even though the ram can run at that speed if you're frontside or backside bus can't keep up it's pointless. Fist figure out how fast your FSB (front side bus) is and buy your ram accordingly. Ideally, 1GB at 1.2GHz will out perform 2GB's of 667MHz. But there are other variables to consider, but i'll spare you the essay.
Also keep in mind, if you're replacing ALL the old ram in your system then you'll see a nice performance gain, but if you're only adding to your existing ram, the new ram stick(s) will only run as fast as your old ram.. so if you have a stick of 1GB at 667MHz, but buy two new 2 GB's at 800MHz, the new sticks will only run at 667MHz, because ALL your ram must run in sync. 
Hope i answered your question!
Ciza

Hi,

Appreciate the direct "Ask Me".

Interesting choice which would seem to boil down to quantity over quality. Personally, I would rather go for quality, that is the highest motherboard acceptable/allowable speed of the memory. Even if the memory is only 2Gb and you can run it at max speed (with latency 2) it should dramatically improve performance. Additionally, the 2Gb (low compared to 4) could be compensated with an efficient memory management of the OS (hopefully XP and not Vista). Memory usage/management could be tweaked at the registry, msconfig, Startup and general ways of how the PC is used.

It would be appreciated for a postback/update if and when you have installed your choice of memory and hopefully, I can be of further assistance with a few tips on Memory usage/management; tweaking.

Hope this be of initial help/idea. Pls post back how things turned up or should you need additional information.

Good luck and kind regards. Thank you for using FixYa.

nope....that 2 gig is true..and the reason it may be invisible is that it is not seated properly, or, it is mismatched..

if i will suggest i think u can try a diff ram most times rams that r not compatible with each other may not run on a system. so to veriyfy that yr new 2gb ram pair is working try to install them one after the other that is, insert the first 2gb ram boot yr system if ok, shut down remove it n insert the other 2gb if it ok then they should work since it has been tested by the manufacturers n is written in the manual..
NB most times especially china products they may write anything on the body of yr machine but u will see a diff thing working so i dont know
guess u find help