Double or upgrade?

Jet boot Jack · Oct 13, 2015

Hello folks,

After a very successful CPU upgrade on my old 775 socket machine, I turn my gaze on doubling the RAM. Currently I have 2 sticks of 2GB DDR2 G-skill. 800Mhz 5-5-5-15. This.

I'm thinking of adding 2 more sticks of the same but should I go for a faster RAM and 2 sticks of 4Gb instead?
I'm not sure if it's of relvance but my rated FSB speed is 1330Mhz. Does that mean I have room to go up till that?

Cheers

BT14 · Oct 13, 2015

I'd recommend going with the higher speed. It'll be able to render faster.

WVMountie07 · Oct 13, 2015

I'd personally just wait to upgrade. DDR4 speeds are like 2-3X that speed and are starting to become much more affordable.

Unkk · Oct 13, 2015

Id go with two sticks of the faster ram as well, but I would also benchmark the system with the two faster sticks, then again with all four. Check out your own applications and see which you'd prefer. You may find that 12GB of the slower speed is better for you than 8GB of faster. If it's a really big difference in and the 8GB is faster, spring for another two sticks of the faster ram when you can.

skitszo · Oct 13, 2015

ddr4 doesn't much matter for speed purposes. its mainly more power efficient.. more relavant to laptop and battery use devices and huge servers with banks of memory. all the tests show that memory speed and whether its ddr3 or ddr4 the work output doesn't change much. Its only been relevant to AMD APU.s for the memory speed to be higher.

Jet boot Jack · Oct 13, 2015

WVMountie07 :

DDR4 will work on a DDR2 mobo?

WVMountie07 · Oct 13, 2015

Jet boot Jack :

No, that's why I stated just wait to upgrade. I was under the impression you meant system upgrade rather than RAM speed upgrade. Apologies...

Jet boot Jack · Oct 13, 2015

Oh hi skitzso. I see you are everywhere

Ok guys, if you think I should go with a faster set, do you recommend something specific? The speed comparison formula is cas latency divided by speed, right? If it means I have to spend much more, do you think it's still worth it? I can get 2 sticks of the ram I have for about 40$.

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