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Originally Posted by Godalmighty83
3gb is pointless on xp and actually slower then just a pair of 1gig sticks.
stick a decent pair of ddr2 1 gig pc6400 sticks in the 1st and 3rd ram slots for dual channel and away you go. stick another stick in and it gets knocked back down to the slightly slower single channel and xp rarely pulls more then 2gigs even with a very hefty game going.
just a few results from my system
3dmark06-
e6600 @ 3.2ghz
8800 gts 320
2x1gb sticks single channel
13412 3dmarks
3x1gb sticks single channel
13416 3dmarks
2x1gb sticks dual channel
13700 3dmarks
nowadays the graphics card is much more important presuming you have a decent c2d cpu.
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Now FS X wouldn't agree on your last statement. :rotfl: