Your thoughts about a mem. spec.

[jambus]

Got 4 Gb 800MHz Corsair DDR2 4-4-4-12

Upgrading my system, memory I'm going for is

3 Gb 1600 MHz Corsair DDR3, triple channel 9-9-9-24

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-170-CS

What do you reckon the performance increase will be in a percentage, I'm not expecting any to be honest, it's just I'm splashing out elsewhere in the system, so this is going to be my "bottleneck" as it were, going for a 920 i7, got 2x280 for SLI, and my budget is only going to stretch for this RAM. Do you reckon it'll cause problems? If so I suppose I could stretch the budget by around 40 pounds tops. What're you're thoughts on this? Feel free to spec. some different RAM =D Help appreciated X

 

[jambus]

Not even if it's twice the freq. and triple channel as my previous mem? Also, I'm probably only going to go with 32 bit XP for a while to come, surely seeing as this only sees just over 3 Gb it won't make any difference? If anything I will see a marginal improvement?