Bit of help please?

dsmith72 · 8 Mar 2006 at 12:52

My system is as follows:

AMD Athlon 64 3200 Newcastle socket 754 running at 200x11 multiplier
K8Upgrade-VM800 motherboard
1024Mb (2x512Mb) of Kingston PC2700 (166mhz) memory
Leadtek 6600GT
on-board sound
DVD drive
DVD rewriter

I've been doing some reading and found that ideally my system should be running the memory at 200mhz instead of the 166mhz its at now.Is this true?

What I really want to know is if I replace the memory with PC3200 will I notice any performance increase?
My motherboard supports up to DDR200 (i think)!.

Is it worthwhile buying another 1Gb of mem if the benefits are going to be negligible?

Thanks if anyone can help me!

bitterSTAR · 8 Mar 2006 at 12:56

Your memory will only run at 200Mhz if it is PC3200, PC2700 runs at 166Mhz.

dsmith72 · 8 Mar 2006 at 13:15

Yes I know that.

What I'm saying is if I replace the 1Gb of PC2700 with 1Gb of PC3200,will there be a performance increase or would it not be worth the money?

bitterSTAR · 8 Mar 2006 at 13:28

OK, sorry about that.

I believe it should make a noticeable difference in performance, as the RAM should run at the same bus speed as the processor for optimal performance. However, please don't just rely on my response. I'd wait for other posters too.

dsmith72 · 8 Mar 2006 at 18:39

Can anyone add anything further?

Gonna buy some PC3200 if I'll get a good performance increase!

Larok · 8 Mar 2006 at 19:40

What are you using your comp for?

dsmith72 · 8 Mar 2006 at 20:20

gaming,
encoding

Pretty much what every one else uses it for.

Larok · 8 Mar 2006 at 21:17

I'd go 2gig, overclock and get a 6800/7800 card.

Usher · 8 Mar 2006 at 21:29

If you want 2 gig - whatever you do don't buy & fit 4 X 512 sticks, it has to be 2X 1gig sticks with your AMD processor or system will run at slower 2T command & 3200DDR will still run at 166 Mhz, lots of threads all over the net re- this problem which doesn't apply to Intel & latest AMD64 processors ,

dsmith72 · 8 Mar 2006 at 21:56

IF I BUY 1GB PC3200 TO REPLACE 1GB PC2700,WILL I NOTICE AN INCREASE IN PERFORMANCE?????

Thats all I want to know.

marc2003 · 8 Mar 2006 at 21:58

tbh the difference won't be huge. you might notice a difference in benchmarks but when it comes to day to day usage i think you would be hard pushed to tell.....

Usher · 9 Mar 2006 at 13:33

dsmith72 said:
My system is as follows:

My motherboard supports up to DDR200 (i think)!.

Thanks if anyone can help me!

Remember that PC3200 is DDR400 & runs dual channel 200Mhz