Upgrading RAM

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Originally Posted by Oldschool61

No its actually not much of an improvement in performance. Unless your PC is outdated and your going with a new mobo stay with your DDR2.

Yep, although I think they underrate the differance. Mainly because the differance is interms of bandwidth/speed for data transfer, but if you have ddr3 you probably are on a 64bit os and have more than 4gb of ram anyway (6-8 is the sweet spot atm). Now the majority of games out are multiplatform or dont take good advantage of PC memory resulting in lower res textures etc. Overall it means that many apps dont push ram to a point where you can see the differance in speed or are bottlenecked by other hardware.

-Basically just saying I think we will see a larger performance gap moving on as hardware evens out. But atm unless you are buying a new machine, stick with your currend ddr2 stick type (add more).