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Is HD3850 Right Choice? Will it bottleneck?

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Josh, skip going for 3 gb and just get 2 matched 1gb sticks. Then you'll run in dual channel and the memory will work better together. Personally, I would just ditch the memory you have now and get 2gb's of ddr800 or better. Prices are very good right now.
 
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a111087 said:
Right now, latest driver creates more problems than solves.
Go to their forum, people are complaining about drivers non-stop, unfortunately.
Of course, I do not think it will be for a while, just need some time till they will develop new drivers and fix all the problems. I hope so. :D
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there shouldnt be any problems after 1-3 catalysts that is released EVERY singel month
just look at ati's crysis hotfix, it shows that they do release hotfixes to
the catalyst naming is nice, as in 7 = 2007 & 12 = december that is 7.12 driver
i realy hope ati will do a 7.13 as in 13 months in a year :p

erocker said:
Josh, skip going for 3 gb and just get 2 matched 1gb sticks. Then you'll run in dual channel and the memory will work better together. Personally, I would just ditch the memory you have now and get 2gb's of ddr800 or better. Prices are very good right now.
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ddr2 prices are way down the toilet now, they are DIRT cheap, meybe get 2x2GB DDR2 PC6400
 
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erocker said:
Josh, skip going for 3 gb and just get 2 matched 1gb sticks. Then you'll run in dual channel and the memory will work better together. Personally, I would just ditch the memory you have now and get 2gb's of ddr800 or better. Prices are very good right now.
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I can still run in dual channel if I just get another 2gb. Because right now I have 2x matching 512mb ddr2 667's and I'm getting 2x matching 1gb ddr2 667's so it will still all run in dual channel, so I've been told.
 
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Joshmcmillan said:
I can still run in dual channel if I just get another 2gb. Because right now I have 2x matching 512mb ddr2 667's and I'm getting 2x matching 1gb ddr2 667's so it will still all run in dual channel, so I've been told.
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I still agree with them. Ditch the Corsair, and buy a 2x1GB 800MHz Ballistix kit.
 
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I have already ordered the 2x 1gb ddr2 667 kit.

Can some more people just confirm that if I have 2x 512mb sticks and 2x 1gb sticks, all identical except size, can I run 3gb in dual channel?
 
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Joshmcmillan said:
I have already ordered the 2x 1gb ddr2 667 kit.

Can some more people just confirm that if I have 2x 512mb sticks and 2x 1gb sticks, all identical except size, can I run 3gb in dual channel?
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Yeah, it should run dual channel. But you may want to try and get your ram speeds up anyway.
 
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