Upgrade: confused

[Boozebeard]

I have got pretty used to having basically more memory than I ever need. Like right now I'm using 2gb with just the applications I usually have running in the background.

 

[area51]

Hi are you using 32 or 64bit W7? with that cpu you can get 3.5ghz.with decent cooler.have a look at the corsair H50 already to go water cooler.£66 on here.Don't go mad with northbridge volt's?.some of these dual ddr2/3 mobo's are giving prob's with ram problems.what you could also do is disable a lot of those programmes running in back ground in start up menu?.as that chomps run time up.I'd go for some decent ram myself pref low latencey stuff 4's in 800mhz/5's in 1066mhz.ddr2 or sim in ddr3.But i'd check first on (if they do it?)Asrock forum/website to see what works and recommended for that board.has friend had a prob trying to get it stable with ddr2/3 configuring with volt's/timmings etc.That card should still be ok still a fair card.I know a few in my clan that are now playing BBC2 with it.A 5850 or like will use less power though.
but if you want to get rid of 9800 give me a shout.