Where are my 18 GBs???

[Doomulation]

Usually, the size of the "b" determines whether it is byte or bit. Small is bit, Capitalized is byte. So, 3 gb/s actually would be gigabit, 3 GB/s would be gigabyte.

Do not count on this rule. Many do not heed this.

 

[zAlbee]

When bus speeds are measured in MHz, does it also Mb/s? Because wireless signals are 2.4 GHz, which have a potential of 300 MB/s. So when measuring RAM speed, is the MHz the speed, or the potential speed, but a speed that it doesnt reach.

What? MHz is a unit of frequency, that has nothing to do with bytes. 1 Hz = once a second, 1 MHz = 10^6 times per second. If I tap my finger 6 times a second, then I'm tapping at 6 Hz . The 2.4 GHz refers to the radio(?) wave that is being transmitted. A wave in the EM spectrum anyway, freq = 2.4 GHz, speed = c, wavelength = you can calculate from there .

Frequencies are always measured in decimal, no one will count them by 1024s; there's no point. With disk storage it's actually useful to have storage space that is a power of 2.

 

[BlueFalcon7]

What? MHz is a unit of frequency, that has nothing to do with bytes. 1 Hz = once a second, 1 MHz = 10^6 times per second. If I tap my finger 6 times a second, then I'm tapping at 6 Hz . The 2.4 GHz refers to the radio(?) wave that is being transmitted. A wave in the EM spectrum anyway, freq = 2.4 GHz, speed = c, wavelength = you can calculate from there .

Frequencies are always measured in decimal, no one will count them by 1024s; there's no point. With disk storage it's actually useful to have storage space that is a power of 2.

I know that, I passed 9th grade science, I got an A in the class by slacking off, and reading my friends Maya 6 book, yet some people still failed that class. But thats a story for later, anyways, I was wondering about RAM speed, and if MHz = Mb/s and BTW, 2.4 GHz, λ = about 5 inches, "λ" means wavelength if any of you didnt know. But RAM speed doesnt really deal with wavelength.

 

[zAlbee]

Oh, you're asking about RAM speeds. I see.

http://www.overclockers.com/tips00157/

Essentially for DDR RAM the bandwidth is 16 times the frequency, which I assume means 16 bytes are transferred per clock cycle.

 

[BlueFalcon7]

Ya, thanks

 

[yegosimo]

so u totally changed the topic...
w/e, i couldn't get here before b/c of some weird reason that the explorer couldn't open the website
i checked the system restore thing and reduced it, also the amount of space that the recycle bin has reserved but nothing changed at all
since i just had 6 GBs free on my drive and with no games but San Andreas, and seeing that my computer was working reallllllyyy sloww, i decided to format the drive and reinstall Windows XP (but this time w/o SP2)
my computer doesn't work well with that SP2 thing so i just should not install it, anyways if i want to use Office 2007 then i will start the machine with my Windows Vista partition ...
thanks for the help anyways, my problem is solved, know i have 29 GBs left on my HDD
you can close this