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just wondering if jumping from say 2100 DDR to 3500 DDR would make any noticble difference. Not planning on upgrading any time soon, but I was just wondering if it would be worth it or not...when the time does come.

The 3500 will run on a higher bus speed than the 2100 will. So the only way you will see an increase in performance is if you increase the bus speed. If you just plug in the 3500 and don't change the bus speed it will run at the same speed the 2100 is running at now. The Nforce 2 mobo let you change the memory bus independent of the fsb that the cpu runs on but most other mobo's have the two locked together so you would need a processor that could run at the higher bus speed as well as the ram.

Are you running a p4 or an XP, I caould be wrong but as I know it, if you have a chip runnin @ 266 fsb and Memory clocking at 333 etc.. that it will cause a lil bit of performace drop. so maybe keep it clocking at 266??

Im sure If Im wrong youll know soon

If you have an NForce2 mobo you can set your RAM clock independent of your CPU clock. Dunno about P4s.

I just got a bargain at the Red-Eye LAN on two 512Mb sticks of PC3200. When I get a chance I'm going to play around with increasing my ram clock.

I went from my 2100 sticks to my 3200 (along with a 400MHz jump) and haven't noticed it...

Yea i went from 512 sdram pc133

to 768 Crucial Pc2100 DDR ram.. and i dont see any diff's or anything..just higher Benchmarks

you will definatly notice when you overclock, as you will hit a wall with the 2100 faster, as mentioned above alot of mobos let you set the ram clock independant of the cpu

my p4 2000@2500 runs on a 125 fsb
but i have my pc2100 overclocked at 156x2