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Originally Posted by PLAZ
I am also interested in speed. Won't 8 GB make my computer faster?
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I have a computer with 2 GB of ram on XP Pro. I use just over 1GB with CRYSIS running! My brother-in-law has a pc with XP Pro 64-bit and 4GB of ram. He runs 2 Folding@Home instances, and about 5 or 6 virtual servers and uses 3.5GB or ram. MORE ram won't necessarily make your computer "faster". It depends on your needs. If you want it be "faster", then get faster ram. That P5Q should be able to handle DDR2 speeds up to DDR2 1200. Will it really make a difference compared to DDR2 800? Not really for most purposes, but faster ram will allow you to overclock to a higher FSB. If you are running Vista, you will notice a good deal going from 1GB to 2GB. Going from 2GB to 4GB... maybe, depending on how much crap you have running at once.