Question:
PC3200 worth it?
A gig of pc2700 is about $30 less than pc3200 of the same amount. Is it worth it to put the faster ram in there if you dont use the laptop for much of anything except word processing and maybe some kind of light gaming. I read that itll give you like 15% performance increase. This is for a V2000z.
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Re: PC3200 worth it?
Yes, it give around 15% improvement including Video( for gaming). There is not price difference for 512MB sticks. OCZ 512MB DDR400 stick are only $40 each. for 1GB you spend only $80. I do not think you are getting any good DDR333 memory cheaper than that.
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Re: PC3200 worth it?
A gig of pc2700 is about $30 less than pc3200 of the same amount. Is it worth it to put the faster ram in there if you dont use the laptop for much of anything except word processing and maybe some kind of light gaming. I read that itll give you like 15% performance increase. This is for a V2000z.
For what you are using your laptop for there is probably no reason to spring for the 3200 memory. It is entirely up to you as to whether 15% faster would be beneficial to you or not.
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Re: PC3200 worth it?
More RAM is usually better than faster RAM since overclocking is impossible in most laptops. I wouldn't really get the faster RAM for $30, since "light gaming" means you don't really care if you get 100FPS, as long as the game is playable. The performance increase won't really be all that noticeable anyway.
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Re: PC3200 worth it?
Yeah, I agree the mem speed impact is pretty limited in practical use. For typical use, a faster ram gives you half second faster advantage (only after lengthy cpu intensive task, if any). But such use case only happens less than 1% of your computer use time on average. A faster ram is more to meet pschological gratification.
As for gaming, it does help some but laptop gaming sucks in general, "better" really means instead of score C, you get a C++, do you really care?
Since you have a ram that comes with manufacture, which most probably a PC2700, getting a PC3200 only means you either have to run PC3200 as PC2700 (along with the manufacture one) or you have to dump the PC2700 in order to run the new pc3200 at PC3200. That memory size loss does not cover the speed increase.
Even you sell the PC2700 on ebay for profit that does not cover your time spent on packaging & shipping IMHO.
Having said the above, from time to time, you may find a 1G PC3200 not necessarily expensive than a 1G PC2700.
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Re: PC3200 worth it?
Yes, it give around 15% improvement including Video( for gaming). There is not price difference for 512MB sticks. OCZ 512MB DDR400 stick are only $40 each. for 1GB you spend only $80. I do not think you are getting any good DDR333 memory cheaper than that.
Where is 1GB for $80?
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Can you switch from 2700 to something higher...I thought if you system was built with one that's what you are stuck with...mine is and AMD 3200 that has 1gig of PC2700...can I go up in speed?
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Where is 1GB for $80?
I do not know, why you are guys are so lazy to search the forum! I have given the newegg link for OCZ DDR400 for $40 in quite few places in this forum.
It is on sale on newegg.com 512MB for $40.
Please go and look for that on newegg.
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I think he means 1GB = 2x512MB. I got mine $100 shipped (2x512MB Corsair CAS3 :P, should have got OCZ cas 2.5, was reading some where that someone has problem with the OCZ).
Check out newegg.com or monarchcomputer.com
or check out fatwallet.com and techbargains.com
Where is 1GB for $80?
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Re: PC3200 worth it?
A gig of pc2700 is about $30 less than pc3200 of the same amount. Is it worth it to put the faster ram in there if you dont use the laptop for much of anything except word processing and maybe some kind of light gaming. I read that itll give you like 15% performance increase. This is for a V2000z.
For the Turion, yes it's worth it!
The reason is that the Turion actually runs at the frequency of 200FSB. Since DDR PC3200 runs at 200FSB, that would make the memory and the CPU run syncronous with each other = more memory bandwidth. If you run PC2700 it would run at 166FSB, therefore slower in performance (15% decrease) from what it's supposed to be.