1066Mhz vs 800Mhz DDR2 RAM

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Since I'm running 4gb of DDR2 800Mhz RAM I was wondering if it's worth spending money on upgrading to 1066Mhz RAM.
Is there a noticeable difference in performance in both gaming and general desktop work?

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NguyenIMPROVED

good for overclocking (:

as you don't have to overclock the ram to overclock the CPU more .

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Silence

4GB is plenty in any language. Use that money you would've spent on buying an i7

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no , he meant replace the current ram with faster ram .

not more ram capacity .

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Silence

ROOK1E said: no , he meant replace the current ram with faster ram .
not more ram capacity .

I know.

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Silence said: 4GB is plenty in any language. Use that money you would've spent on buying an i7

I was just curious since I just found out it can be done for under 100 bucks. An i7 will cost a lot more than that, new mobo, RAM etc etc.

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Silence

Bah you have money to burn. Get the i7, I know you want to

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i7 = 920($400~) + DDR3 RAM ($140) + MOBO ($300~)

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b3nnii

Silence said: 4GB is plenty in any language. Use that money you would've spent on buying an i7

You can never have enough ram!

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b3nnii said:
Silence said: 4GB is plenty in any language. Use that money you would've spent on buying an i7

You can never have enough ram!

right now that's limited at 16gbs

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www.apple.com/

Snow Leopard extends the 64-bit technology in Mac OS X to support breakthrough amounts of RAM — up to a theoretical 16TB

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NguyenIMPROVED

that's the x64 system .

there is no hardware yet to support it

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theoretical

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Kamon62

ROOK1E said: that's the x64 system .
there is no hardware yet to support it

Then we wait. I think that 16gb of ram will support us for quite awhile. It would be nice to have 16gb of ram...Windows would be like 'Oh let me click a program...boom'. Pops up straight away!

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ROOK1E said:
b3nnii said:
Silence said: 4GB is plenty in any language. Use that money you would've spent on buying an i7

You can never have enough ram!

right now that's limited at 16gbs

What's limited to 16Gb? a 32-Bit OS is limited to 4gb of ram TOTAL, including video-ram. a 64-bit OS is limited to 128Gb of ram in a multi-motherboard server.

Guyver said: Since I'm running 4gb of DDR2 800Mhz RAM I was wondering if it's worth spending money on upgrading to 1066Mhz RAM.
Is there a noticeable difference in performance in both gaming and general desktop work?

I think it would be a waste. It's not that much faster, you won't notice an sort of real difference to justify the cost. DDR3 you can see the difference. Save your money for a 150gb or 300gb Raptor 10,000 RPM Hard Drive. Way faster read speeds and loading of anything. That will show through as a real difference.

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Skarteh

Didn't you buy heat spreaders for your RAM? Just overclock it

otherwise whats the point of them!

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Foetoid said:
I think it would be a waste. It's not that much faster, you won't notice an sort of real difference to justify the cost. DDR3 you can see the difference. Save your money for a 150gb or 300gb Raptor 10,000 RPM Hard Drive. Way faster read speeds and loading of anything. That will show through as a real difference.

Thanks mate I was thinking about one of those Raptor drives since I hate the way my computer pauses for a second when I hit a check point in a game.

Skarteh said: Didn't you buy heat spreaders for your RAM? Just overclock it otherwise whats the point of them!

Can you over clock RAM safely?

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Pongo

i think so, its pretty much the same as a CPU overclock isnt it

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xLAMBIEx

Yea just need proper heat sinks and maybe a set of fans.

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slicingman

if your cpu's fsb is 800mhz is there a point to get ram that is faster? since the ram is for the cpu... is there a advantage of having your ram faster than your cpu?

im just curious cause i like computing

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i dont think you can clock it over the CPU, as it wont use it anyway. i dunno, im not a major overclocker yet

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slicingman said: if your cpu's fsb is 800mhz is there a point to get ram that is faster? since the ram is for the cpu... is there a advantage of having your ram faster than your cpu?
im just curious cause i like computing

if your cpu FSB hardly reaches 800MHz then there will be no performance gain if you got 1066MHz ram .

it will only give you more overclocking potential .