Corsair Memory Contest

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:06 pm

As promised earlier today I have more information on the new contest. Several of you submitted good ideas for the contest. I went through all of them and I picked my favorite one. We are going to have a Q&A session on the History of Unreal. Whoever answers them correctly is going to be put in a drawing for one of three prizes.

The contest will begin on Wednesday when I release the questions to be answered. I am just waiting on a Unreal celebrity to submit some questions as well.

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 3:27 pm

damnit! i hate history.. i think this contest isnt far.. alot of young UT players wont know alot of stuff.. and some older people might not either couse they dont care.. but thats their problem accualy..

about memory:
how does it realy work.. say i buy some more memory, can i just plug it in my Mboard and it will work? i will have more memory? or..?

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 5:42 pm

Lol, you are so odd....

Yes, memory you can just plug right into the motherboard and if you win and it's already filled I'd replace it with crucial since their's is top notch memory.

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 5:46 pm

why am i odd?

so like when you plug in some more, it will automaticly change it in the computer, like when you view in some progs or properties of your PC how many meory it has, its auto changed and everything?

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 5:48 pm

Because you contadict yourself all the time. Razz

And, yes...assuming your motherboard supports the speed of memory you install (which is normally not a prob but I'm covering my ass)

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 6:49 pm

contadict?
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=contadict
not helping me..

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 7:19 pm

nevermind

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:20 pm

bty cheetah....
the memory will only work if the bus speed is equal to your mb bus speed

(DDR PC2700 will only work in a mobo that supports PC2700.)

Also another thing to point out is that you CAN mix bus speeds of memory if each type is supported by your mobo.

the only thing is that the memory will automatically throttle itself down to the SLOWEST stick of memory on your PC. therefore 2 sticks of PC3200 DDR, and 1 stick of PC2700 will act like 3 sticks of PC2700.

You still will get the cumulative megabyte memory rating (256 + 256 +512 = 1024 [1gig] ), but the speed will be slower (noticibly slower from what i understand) when running memory intensive programs

oh and its CONTRADICT not what you had Razz

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=contradict

Guest

Sorry to be a stickler, but Crucial doesn't make an XMS brand memory, but Corsair does... so is it Crucial memory or Corsair? Confused

Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 3:05 am

Oh shit. LOL. Sorry it is Corsair. Brain fart on that one.

Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 4:58 am

cool, thanks raven, im a hardware n00b, yall know that, so now i learned something..
where can i see what memory i got?

Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 3:01 pm

Thanks for clearing up both of those things for me, rav. Razz

Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 4:22 pm

np... atleast i can do something right Wink