Just put in my new ram....what should I expect?

[digitalduck]

Okay, Here is my system:

Athlon XO 2500+ barton (1.83ghz)
Radeon 9800 Pro
ABIT NF7 mobo
Win XP

and NEW 512mg Crucial 3200 DDR running in Dual Channel

That replaced my old 512mg Crucial 2100 non dual channel.

What should I expect in performance gain? Ram has always been something of a mystery to me. I mean, I know what it does but im not always sure how faster ram will help certain things. For instance I "think" Halo plays better now, but with a jump in ram like that, what should I notice? Will it play a big factor in Doom 3, HL 2 etc?

also..my 3D mark 03 score was 4152 with everything turned off..seems kinda low doesnt it?

Thanks

 

[charloscarlies]

You did make sure and buy 2 sticks of 256 right? Otherwise you won't be running dual channel. If you did buy 2 sticks...you will notice a pretty signficant jump in memory bandwidth (assuming your board supports it).

 

[Peter]

... which, thanks to the Athlon's very intelligent caching strategies, does very little.