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1Gb PC2700 or 512 PC3200?

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kj4ta

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1Gb PC2100 or 512 PC3200?

What is better for performance:
I currently have 1000Mb of PC2100 2x512 and was wondering if getting 2x256 PC 3200 would yield better performance.

TIA
 
What sort of things do you do? play games? graphical work? If you play games then 512 pc3200 would be better, and would give you a better overclock.
 
pc2700 blows chunks

kj4ta said:
I play games mostly with the occasional PhotoShop play time. :)

Get the pc3200 and get at least 1gig if you can. You will notice a considerable increase in performance with games. FarCry is absolutely ram hungry and 512mb is barely enough. I have a gig of xms pc3200ll from corsair and my oc and timings with this ram are awesome. pc2700 is just too slow imho and not worth wasting money on for what you like to do. Now if all you did was type papers with word you could use some seriously cheap ram and never have a problem but buying cheap ram for gaming is a no-no.
 
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