Memory speed or quantity?

[dornick]

I'm currently running an Nforce 3 MB that only has 3 DIMMs and 2 of them are occupied with a stick of 256mb Kingston ValueRAM. I just recently got a hold of a 512 stick of the same type. Thing is though, I can only run all three at the 166 divider (pc2700) with 2T, while I was running the original 512 at ddr400 with 1T.

Would it be better to have the Gig at slow speeds, or only 768 at higher speeds? How much of a real life impact would that speed difference be?

I'm a fairly heavy gamer (HL2, Farcry, etc...) and the rest of my specs are:

athlon 64 3000 s754
GeForce 5900xt
Epox 8kda3j

thanks

 

[Concillian]

Try both and see which works best.

I'd think the more memory will give you a better real-world experience, but you have the tools to try out both, play for a day one way, then play for a day the other. Stick with what works best.

 

[mwmorph]

more memory is generally faster than more speed
look at this. a pc2100 stick of rma is only 5-7% slower than a pc3200 stick of ram
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=28&threadid=1475190&enterthread=y