[rquilley]

I am contemplating upgrading the ram in my system. I currently run 1 gig of Infinion PC3200. I am thinking of swithcing to Balistix ram, possibley going up to 2 gigs.

Oops just read the sticky so I edited this a bit..... anyway now I know I can up the speed of the ram to say PC4000 but will this be of a benifit to me

I am runing a 2.6c chip on a Gigabyte mb (GA-8IPE1000 Pro2). This is my sandra score.

SiSoftware Sandra
Int Buffered iSSE2 (Integer STREAM) Results Breakdown
Assignment : 3462MB/s
Scaling : 3467MB/s
Addition : 3674MB/s
Triad : 3668MB/s
Data Item Size : 16-bytes
Buffering Used : Yes
Offset Displacement Used : Yes
Bandwidth Efficiency : 116% (estimated)
Float Buffered iSSE2 (Float STREAM) Results Breakdown
Assignment : 3469MB/s
Scaling : 3445MB/s
Addition : 3644MB/s
Triad : 3653MB/s
Data Item Size : 16-bytes
Buffering Used : Yes
Offset Displacement Used : Yes
Bandwidth Efficiency : 116% (estimated)
Test Status
Device Type : Desktop
Memory Used by Test : 512MB
NUMA Support : No
SMP Test : No
Total Test Threads : 1
SMT Test : Yes
Number of Test SMT (per CPU) : 2
Dynamic MP/MT Load Balance : No
Processor Affinity : No
Chipset 1
Model : Giga-Byte Technology 82865G/PE/P, 82848P DRAM Controller / Host-Hub Interface
Front Side Bus Speed : 4x 241MHz (964MHz data rate)
Width : 64-bit
Maximum Bus Bandwidth : 7712MB/s (estimated)
Logical/Chipset 1 Memory Banks
Speed : 2x 192MHz (384MHz data rate)
Width : 64-bit
Maximum Memory Bus Bandwidth : 3072MB/s (estimated)
Features
MMX Technology : Yes
SSE Technology : Yes
SSE2 Technology : Yes
SSE3 Technology : No
HTT - Hyper-Threading Technology : Yes

 

[rquilley]

Ok I turned off a few background apps. but otherwise still running all the other stuff, firewall, virus scan etc...

New score is a bit better.

SiSoftware Sandra
Int Buffered iSSE2 (Integer STREAM) Results Breakdown
Assignment : 4621MB/s
Scaling : 4602MB/s
Addition : 4579MB/s
Triad : 4563MB/s
Data Item Size : 16-bytes
Buffering Used : Yes
Offset Displacement Used : Yes
Bandwidth Efficiency : 149% (estimated)
Float Buffered iSSE2 (Float STREAM) Results Breakdown
Assignment : 4647MB/s
Scaling : 4629MB/s
Addition : 4605MB/s
Triad : 4589MB/s
Data Item Size : 16-bytes
Buffering Used : Yes
Offset Displacement Used : Yes
Bandwidth Efficiency : 150% (estimated)
Test Status
Device Type : Desktop
Memory Used by Test : 512MB
NUMA Support : No
SMP Test : No
Total Test Threads : 1
SMT Test : Yes
Number of Test SMT (per CPU) : 2
Dynamic MP/MT Load Balance : No
Processor Affinity : No
Chipset 1
Model : Giga-Byte Technology 82865G/PE/P, 82848P DRAM Controller / Host-Hub Interface
Front Side Bus Speed : 4x 241MHz (964MHz data rate)
Width : 64-bit
Maximum Bus Bandwidth : 7712MB/s (estimated)
Logical/Chipset 1 Memory Banks
Speed : 2x 192MHz (384MHz data rate)
Width : 64-bit
Maximum Memory Bus Bandwidth : 3072MB/s (estimated)
Features
MMX Technology : Yes
SSE Technology : Yes
SSE2 Technology : Yes
SSE3 Technology : No
HTT - Hyper-Threading Technology : Yes

 

[aznchowboy650]

hey buddy you don't need 2 gb ram unless your doing some serious hardcore stuff like video editing or writing programs if your mobo supports dual channel go to komusa.com and get some pc5000 dual channel 2x 512 and that would give you the ultimate oc you want

 

[rquilley]

I do do some video editing just getting into it. That is one of the reasons I want to upgrade. Just picked up a new DV camera about 1 month ago... I am in the process of teaching myself to edit and produce video... I also just got a dual layer burner...

 

[rquilley]

So no thoughts on if changing to say a good quality pc4000 ram would improve this significantly

 

[NoAffinity]

Is your CPU currently overclocked? The Sandra results show the RAM only running at DDR384. If you're running a divider and your CPU is OC'd, then yes, faster-rated RAM will dramatically improve performance.

 

[rquilley]

I got this part figured out by changing from the Auto setting to 1.66 setting I have the ram running at 415 now.... Still I will likely get new pc4000 so I can set it to the 2.0 setting and then be running around 500...

thanks