[hallo]

yeh, so anyways i bought a 1 gig 3200DDR chip a while ago and it never worked! Running it by itself the computer wouldnt boot, running it with my 512mb stick i could either get the PC to detect 1 gig or to detect the 512, never the full 1.5 gig and the 1 gig would never work by itself. Now that's how it came when i got it, so i was worried it was my motherboard or choice of ram and not just dodgy ram.

I have a 1 year warranty on the ram but i couldnt be botherred driving for 30 minutes to get a new one so i was planning on buying some at work.

i recently bought a 7600GT and while i can run games like prince of persian: the two thrones and such on max graphics, my PC really struggles on games like FEAR.

So i'm assuming the 512mb of ram isn't enough for games like FEAR, correct?

Anyways, i just wanted to know whether i should get SD or DDR ram and what speed i should get. I'm assuming 2 gig is enough. My motherboard is only about 8 months old and is pretty decent (it has 3 fans on it!!)

Anyway my PC specs are:
512mb of working ram, 1 gig of broken ram
7600GT 256mb card
AMD Athlon 3700+ san diego
250 gig hdd (it's pretty new so i assume pretty fast, don't know if a reformat will help on speed in games, maybe it would)
MSI, K8N DIAMOND SLI PLUS motherboard

Also, for some reason, even though i have all sorts of weird and cool overclocking features on this motherboard, i can't overclock the host clock on the cpu, only the fsb, which is annoying because i know these chips are pretty overclockable

[joeybob]

it is not surely the ram stick that something is wrong with, it might be the motherboard or the ram slots, you should try experimenting by putting the one gig at different places if you have 3 slots.
i cannot help you much with over clocking since i never overclock to avoid damage to the pc

[superstrikertwo]

Do you have all your drivers updated? Sometimes that can cause problems if they aren't.

[StarLab]

Go to the MSI website and look up your motherboard.

In fact, here is the link: MSI Computer Corp. - Product

There are some good notes there on which memory is supported.

[lamos]

Originally Posted by superstrikertwo

Do you have all your drivers updated? Sometimes that can cause problems if they aren't.

drivers wouldnt affect the ram if that is what you mean, but for overclocking i think it is more a matter of which programs you use rather than drivers although it is true that drivers can have some kind of effect

[superstrikertwo]

What I'm saying is that he might have drivers that need updating. I never said it would affect the RAM.

[joeybob]

whether you should get sd or ddr depends on your motherboard, i dont think it can support both, and 512mb ran does lag with games like fear from what i know, so it would be best to get 1 with 1gb or so. it should be ddr since the one you talked about above is a ddr.

[lamos]

Originally Posted by superstrikertwo

What I'm saying is that he might have drivers that need updating. I never said it would affect the RAM.

well i understood it that way because the discussion was mostly about the ram, anyway drivers might help, but i doubt thats the problem, it is probably lack of ram.

[jessi_rubin]

hey dude.. you cant go for sd ram on the latest motherboards. and by the way the full form of ddr is Dual Data Rate sd ram. try overclocking your rams . and if they can work in dual channel mode then its gonna give almost 40% more throughput per ram dimm

[etheral]

Maybe I'm just thinking too simply but did you or can you check your motherboard specs to see what is the highest amount of RAM it can support?