what order should RAM be in?

[NSiebenmor]

I just bought a powermac and two 1 gig sticks from crucial. I'm curious, does it make any difference what order the sticks are in. Should the larger sticks be in slots 1 and the smaller ones in the following? Can it change the speed at all if the smaller 256 sticks are in slots 1? thanks for the help.

Nsiebenmor

 

[TMA]

I'm pretty sure it doesn't make any difference.

 

[Mechcozmo]

The PowerMac G5 needs the RAM to be paired.

So if slots 0 and 1 are occupied, you need to stick your new RAM into either:
2 and 3
4 and 5
6 and 7
not a mix and match deal.

 

[TMA]

The PowerMac G5 needs the RAM to be paired.

So if slots 0 and 1 are occupied, you need to stick your new RAM into either:
2 and 3
4 and 5
6 and 7
not a mix and match deal.

I don't think that's what the question was. I think NSiebenmor wanted to know if it was better to put the larger chips in the first accessible slots or leave the pre-install RAM in those and add the 2 x 1gb chips in the next 'outer' slots. Hard to explain!