Those coolers cost an negligible sum. Seriously, not just relative to the rest of the system
- but those brackets were useless anyway; the case comes with a similar system in the first place.
By the way, can 32bit Windows do 2GB+1GB? Or should it be (1GB+1GB)+(512MB+512MB)? Or is that related to DDR2?
Someone on the TES forums mentioned "3GB of DDR2" being useless in XP because "You can't even run it in Dual channel mode". Uppon which someone replied:
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Dual Channel Mode for 3GB of DDR2 would work as; Dimm0: 1GB / Dimm1: 1GB / Dimm2: 512MB / Dimm3: 512MB (or any similar combo.). All Windowx x86 (32-bit) operating system can use at least 3GB of RAM. Windows XP 32-bit can sense of a little more than Vista 32-bit. Windows XP 32-bit usually capped out at ~3.25GB and Vista is around ~3.1GB. This is very system dependant.
Again, for memory if you keep the system balanced in pairs of memory it will work in Dual Channel Mode: Those systems with only 3 DIMMs may be out of luck with more than 2GB of memory in dual channel mode, since they rarely accept more than 1GB sticks and any memory in the third dimm usually disables dual channel mode.
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I don't quite follow. To be able to get the most out of DDR2 on a 32Bit system one needs to make sure it's in pairs; an even number?