More chips or less? (RAM)

[Gyllilian]

Hey I was looking to upgrade the memory on my motherboard.

I have a gig of ram already set on it (ASUS P5LD2) in two 512 DDR2 chips. I was looking to upgrade to the maximum allotted for the motherboard of 4 gigs (I believe?). My question was, since the motherboard has 4 slots of RAM and considering that a 1 gig ram chip is cheaper than a 2 gig ram chip. Would the performance of 4 gigs using either four, 1 gig ram chips be the same as using two, 2 gig ram chips? I would prefer to buy the 1 gigs (due to the price difference) but I'm unsure if this kind of thing effects performance. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[aviation_man]

It wouldn't matter if it was 4 x 1GB or 2 x 2GB. The performance would be the same. I would recommend you buying the 2 x 2GB. Yes, the 2GB's are more expensive but I'm sure it'd be pretty much the same cost of buying two of those than four of 1GBs.. And you'll have two empty slots left over that you can use in the future too.

Make sure you buy the correct RAM with the right MHz frequency. Check the old sticks of RAM to see what MHz they run off of.
Also, I would recommend buying RAM from G.Skill or Corsair off of www.newegg.com.

Best of luck!