Adding Ram.. Should it match?

[imported_Indohottie]

Okay

Here is the situation.. I currently have 1 gb of PC3200 Geil Value Ram, and 512 mb of PC2100 Crucial Ram.. I want to upgrade to 2 gb of PC3200... I have two questions bout this:

1. Will I see a great speed improvement(rest of specs of my machine in sig) I use it for light gaming, word processing, some image editing.. surfing and chatting..

2. If I do upgrade is it best to buy matching Geil Value Ram or will any other quality PC3200 ram work just as well.. I dont overclock or anything, so that will not be an issue.

Thanks

 

[AMCRambler]

If you don't overclock matching memory is really not necessary. If you're one of those guys who likes his ram timing to be quick though be aware that your system will set the timing to the slowest stick in there. I used to worry about getting the best ram and bought pc2700 Mushkin level 2 but I never overclock so it really wasn't doing anything for me. I upgraded to 1gb with a stick of Geil, but that stick started failing on me a couple weeks ago(I don't trust Geil anymore as a result). So when I went shopping for memory, I decided it wasn't worth buying the high quality stuff and I picked up a gig and a half of Kingston value ram for 135 bucks. So I'm bumped up to 2 gigs now, and as far as performance goes, it works great. I'll be buying value ram from now on for sure.

 

[goobernoodles]

You should sell the crucial ram and get another stick of GeIL. Right now, if you're running the 2100 with the Giel, as I assume you are, the crucial is slowing down the Geil from 3200 speeds to 2100 speeds. You will most likely notice a performance gain from not only having more ram, but it being faster aw well.