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Originally Posted by Cromewell
Potato...Potato? That really doesn't work in text form 
Your post is all semantics. It's effectively the same thing, you can't increase one without the other increasing. Dual channel DDR400 effectively (it's not 100%) gives you DDR800, or if you would prefer 6.4GB/s bandwidth which is....wait...oh right the bandwidth provided by DDR800  |
Hmmm, actually the memory bandwidth is labled as, in this case, PC3200 and PC6400 (i dont think there is such a thing, but thats what it would be referred to.) The DDR400 rating is the speed, or freq it operates at. DDR400 would be 200mhz or effectively 400mhz. I dont think any DDR ram can reach DDR800 speeds, 400mhz or effectively 800mhz. The PC3200 refers to the bandwidth, and PC3200 would be 3.2gb/s. Im sorry, but i love pushing the point lol.
Oh, and id say add the extra 256mb. The decrease in performance from running 2T would minimal compared to the increase in performance from having the extra ram. Youd be better off buying a cheap 512 stick to run dual channel, then youd nearly double the performance.