Memory speed or size? which is better?

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Hi. I've got an old K8V SE deluxe (1.8 ghx athlon 64). It has 2x512mb DDR400 (PC3200) sticks at the moment, but I've just found a 1gig DDR266 (PC2100) stick.

It works in the motherboard with the other two and windows shows 2gigs, but will there be any improvement? I hear all sticks run at the same speed and so these will be running at DDR 266 speeds?

I'm not gaming, just office stuff and internet, and limewire.

thanks
 
I don't actually have the computer with me so can't check but is there likely to not be much change? The way I see it is DDR266 is still a lot faster than accessing the hard disk so windows should be a lot faster with memory hungry programs or when multitasking, but when its jsut one application it will run slightly slower.
 
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