Memory upgrade and no performance upgrade?

[seriosha]

Just upgrade My std 1,5 Gb of PC 2700 to 1 single module of Kingstone Hyper X part.no : KHX PC3200/1G with CAS 2.5.
So I Move from Dimm 333 mhz to 400 mhz coupling the Front side bus of my AMB Burton 3200+.
My system has a ABIT KV-7 MB, and a Albatron GE Force 5600 256 MB.
I Know my videocard is dated but how possible I'm having no improvement running 3D Mark 2005?
I passed, OC my Video card to 380/500, from 381 3D mark to 380 3D Mark with the new memory!!!!!!!🙁
Is there something i spent my money for?
should I change something in my BIOS to run this mwmory at best?
Please help
Thanks

 

[ZYFER]

well one thing, you have less ram then you had before, clock speeds aren't everything you know...

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Was the 2700 running at the 166/333 speed, or would the system run and remain stable at 200/400 fsb with it? If the latter, you won't see an improvement until you are running faster than 400. If the former, are you sure that your system is now running at the RAM's, and the CPU's, rated 200/400?

😉

 

[DAPUNISHER]

You are completely vid card limited in that test. That was a terrible upgrade BTW, there are better ways to spend your money than on a 1gb stick of ram when you had 1.5gb of slightly slower ram before. Next time ask before virtually throwing your money away is my advice.

 

[Shooters]

My guess is that 3DMark is being more limited by your videocard than your RAM. You chose the wrong bottleneck to upgrade for the performance area you were trying to improve, graphics.

If you really want to see how the upgrade affected your system's performance, run a memory benchmark, not a graphics one.