4GB of RAM is worse than 2GB

[Dougx1317]

I recently upgraded my RAM from 2GB of G Skill DDR2 533Mhz CL4 to 4GB of Crucial DDR2 667Mhz CL5. All of my benchmarks got significantly worse, and everything seems sluggish. Is there a reason for this? What's a good way to test my RAM for problems?

 

[huron]

I believe you can run memtest86 and check for errors. It's a free download. You can run a stress test for hours to check.

 

[marcellis22]

A little more information on running Memtest86 might help, try ONE stick at a time, do the quick test, you don't have to waste HOURS to find out you have a bad stick. You may still have a motherboard problem or a memory voltage problem.

 

[swifty_morgan]

Why don't you take a look in the bios and make sure the memory is running at the right speed and has the right voltage. If not, set it where it supposed to be.

 

[bobbknight]

Yep bios settings then memtest then rma if needed.

 

[Dougx1317]

This is in a laptop, so I can't control anything in the bios. Is this bad? Will memtest find any possible errors? What all does it test?

 

[wahjahka]

This is in a laptop, so I can't control anything in the bios. Is this bad? Will memtest find any possible errors? What all does it test?

yea well run memtest and see if any errors come up. thats all i can say
but remember i could be wrong but from what i have been told memtest doesnt just check your ram, if an error is found it could be something else but run memtest and see if any errors come up