What's better ? Two 256meg sticks or one 512 meg stick for K7S5A

Which is better to put in motherboard without problems? A stick of ddr 512
(2100) or two sticks of ddr 256 meg (2100)
Just curious. Probably won't make a difference. Any advice?

Beacon2003

"Beacon" <> wrote in message
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> Which is better to put in motherboard without problems? A stick of ddr 512
> (2100) or two sticks of ddr 256 meg (2100)
> Just curious. Probably won't make a difference. Any advice?
>
> Beacon2003

One stick of 512mb. One less component to go wrong and still leaves a slot
free for future upgrades.
>
>

I used 2 sticks of 256 for quite some time, had no problems, both
sticks were Crucial brand.

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Kyle
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| "Beacon" <> wrote in message
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| > Which is better to put in motherboard without problems? A stick of
ddr 512
| > (2100) or two sticks of ddr 256 meg (2100)
| > Just curious. Probably won't make a difference. Any advice?
| >
| > Beacon2003
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| One stick of 512mb. One less component to go wrong and still leaves
a slot
| free for future upgrades.
| >
| >
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Have had 2 sticks of Crucial PC2100 in my K7S5A ver.1.x since Dec.'01
Used 2x256 modules for nearly 2 years, then 2x512mb DDR sticks for
the last 4 months with no problems.

Frank

"Beacon" <> wrote in message news:<zfNEb.23086$ m>...
> Which is better to put in motherboard without problems? A stick of ddr 512
> (2100) or two sticks of ddr 256 meg (2100)
> Just curious. Probably won't make a difference. Any advice?
>
> Beacon2003

Mr. Slow <> wrote in message
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> "Beacon" <> wrote in message
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> > Which is better to put in motherboard without problems? A stick of ddr
512
> > (2100) or two sticks of ddr 256 meg (2100)
> > Just curious. Probably won't make a difference. Any advice?
> >
> > Beacon2003
>
> One stick of 512mb. One less component to go wrong and still leaves a slot
> free for future upgrades.
> >
> >
One stick is generally a better idea, however, if you already have a stick
of 256, adding another is probably not a bad idea. Just avoid like the
plague using 2 sticks of SDRAM on these boards - I've had 2 of them with
very different revision numbers and neither of them liked 2 sticks of
SDRAM - they would only be stable when underclocked with 2 SDRAM.