Do I need an urgent RAM upgrade?!

Gundog48 · 8 Feb 2010 at 21:18

I have just installed CPU-Z to find out I am running 400mhz RAM!!! I thought I had 800Mhz. Surely thats exceedingly poor by todays standards, so do I need a quick upgrade to 800Mhz+. I am running 4Gb BTW and use it for gaming and a small amount of video editing.

Also, could this be a bottleneck? I'm pretty sure it needs urgent attention, but what do you think?

PhoenixUK · 8 Feb 2010 at 21:21

DDR - Double Data Rate, 400x2 = 800

Gundog48 · 8 Feb 2010 at 21:27

^^ I'm really stupid xD

Was worried then! I should really know more, considering I built it myself! Only been in the business about 6 months (I'm 14) and built my computer about 4 months ago. 6 months ago I didn't even know what a CPU did! Still learning fast, but that was a really bad mistake I did!

Redmint · 8 Feb 2010 at 21:33

Don't worry about it, I've seen plenty of other people get confused by the CPU-Z memory information

I didn't do my first full system build until a few months ago and I'm 22!

Phil2008 · 8 Feb 2010 at 21:39

Good on ya for tinkering around with pcs,, I was the same as you meny yrs ago.