upgrading ram

[navyac]

The RAM I currently have on my Gateway is 2 gigs of PC3200 ram. Question is, if I wanted to upgrade would I be able to switch to a higher spped RAM, like PC3500??

 

[d3lt4]

If you wanted the simple answer... yes you would, but there is really no reason to upgrade if you already have 2gigs, you won't see any performance gains, and going up that little, you won't notice any difference.

 

[jackschmittusa]

You don't mention the rest of your rig, but if you now have a dual channel memory configuratrion, you lose it if you go to 3gb, and windows stumbles at 4gb. Even if you just run new ram at a higher speed, you may have a performance hit by running the ram and the cpu at different speeds. You might get an improvement by overclocking with more capable ram, but then there are other issues to contend with then too.

Bottom line: don't spend the money on ram, but a better vid card (if gaming) or a faster cpu instead (assuming the mb supports it).

 

[navyac]

X2 4200, xfx 7600 gt, 2 gigs pc3200, 300 gig hd, win xp me