Will my system be able to run SH4?

[Coritani]

I currently have two 256mb PC3200 sticks (well, at least 1 of them is pc3200, I assume the other is, otherwise I'd be having problems wouldn't I?). I've got four slots, but two of them are different from the other two - two are black and two are blue. I don't know what this means. This is my motherboard.

Also, I don't have a soundcard, but I've never had a problem with onboard sound - SH3 sure sounded good. At the moment I just want to get this whole RAM thing sorted out so I can buy another stick or two. :hmm:

[jazman]

Originally Posted by Coritani

I currently have two 256mb PC3200 sticks (well, at least 1 of them is pc3200, I assume the other is, otherwise I'd be having problems wouldn't I?). I've got four slots, but two of them are different from the other two - two are black and two are blue. I don't know what this means. This is my motherboard.

Also, I don't have a soundcard, but I've never had a problem with onboard sound - SH3 sure sounded good. At the moment I just want to get this whole RAM thing sorted out so I can buy another stick or two. :hmm:

Onboard sound uses CPU. I have a slower machine, and found that a dedicated sound card freed up needed CPU cycles for the other things of the game.

The memory slots are probably color-coded like that so that you'd match up pairs of sticks so you get dual-channel. In fact, looking at the manual, that's it. Either the blue, or the black, or all four slots, to get dual-channel. They should be identical. If you have two different memory sticks, you put them in different colors (slots 1 and 3).