RAM speed

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Strickers

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Can anyone tell me what the difference will be, and more imortantly, how MUCH a difference I will ACTUALLY notice, between having 667mhz RAM or 800mhz?

thanks
 
Very little difference will be noticable. But with the current prices of DDR2-800 you might as well get it.
 
Agreed ^

If you have DDR2-667 already, theres no point in upgrading to DDR2-800. But if you are looking to buy new RAM, get the 800 because the price difference is very minimal between them.
 
the only time youd notice a difference is if it was DDR 400 and DDR 2 800, other than that its barely noticeable, make sure you get good latencies though, if your buying new RAM
 
RAM101 said:
Timings, Latency. From the basic design nature of memory, it (the memory) cannot be accessed "right away" (think of a library: you may know exactly what the call-number for a book may be however you cant just walk in pooof have the book, gotta find or at least, get to the book). Everytime a [major] operative command is sent to memory there is a delay required before it can be completely processed and collectively these delays are known as timings or latencies and they are measured in clock cycles. While there are about a dozen or two timings related to memory, only a few are significant enough to mention (and they are dealt with in VFAQ Section). In general, the lower the timings, the better performance.
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You can read a little more about the 5 important ones in the first topic in Section 3 -- VFAQ
. There is a little more about them at the end of Section 5 -- Addendum
 
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