memory upgrade?

mx344

mx344

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Ok, so i got this computer from cyberpower about a month ago, and it does pretty good on games, and movie and multitasking and such, but this christmas i am going to upgrade to 4 gigs of ram...
So today out of my curiosity i downloaded cpuz and it said i have 2 gigs of PC-6400 DDR2 ram but then i looked at the speed and it was 400mhz???Whats up with that,400? isnt 6400 rated at 800?Whats up with this?and the CAS latency timings were 6-6-6-18...:confused:

So this christmas i am going to upgrade to 4 gigs of 800mhz ram with CAS timings of 4-4-4-12, will i find a bit better performance in how the system runs?


I know when i upgraded my laptop from 512mb to 2gigs it made a hella big difference.So i was wandering if it would do the same...
Do they lower it on purpose?
 
Did it look something like this having just seen 2gb of memory with 4-4-4-14 replaced with 4gb of the same now seeing 4-4-4-12 for timings?



Once you get the 4gb installed you will be seeing this.



Double Data Rate is what it means as far as 2x400=800mhz. What CPU-Z reports is half of the total collective memory speed. As far as the move up from 512 to 2gb even when simply going from 1gb to 2gb that's when you can expect to see the largest performance leap!

Going from 2gb to 4gb here hasn't made any real difference with the same games or apps. But it will allow for running more memory hungry types of softwares like Delta CAD once I get into an updated version here as well as looking at graphics work and animation where the demand for memory is quite a bit more then the typical 32bit games and apps.
 
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