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Hey I was wondering what you all thought about my system and if you could help me identify my bottleneck. I got disgusted with Dell and fell in love with Crysis the game at the same time and gave my ispiron 531 a makeover. saved my money and got a amd phenom quad core 9950, motherboard: MSI k9a2 platinum 790 fx am2+, still have the HDD that came with the dell, the 19" monitor (max resolution 1440X900) and had 4 X 1 gig 667 ddr2 240 pin memory (5300u?) recently gave all my old stuff to my parents computer as it took them like 5 minutes just to load a web browser, and gave them two sticks of the memory. I'm going to get new memory but I have no idea if it would be worth just getting all new memory at 800 or 1022. Also as far as graphics go, is a bottleneck at my monitor's resolution? would it look more realistic with a better monitor? My brother told me it could have to do with the HDD speed? Also I don't know if this helps, but I was watching the frames per second and when I put the graphics options to the max my fps dropped to like 18 from 40....

one other side note, have any of you ever had your harddrive say that you're using WAY more gigabytes than you actually are? is this another blessing Dell has bestowed upon me,
if I've learned on solid piece of information of all this it's.... friends don't let friends buy Dell, wish someone woulda told me.
Thanks a bunch

This is still great stuff, but we need an update for DDR3 with I7 and AM3.

I have been building computers for quite some time now and long enough to know that things change quickly and constantly and my last build was about 6 mo. ago. In the past, I have had a soft spot for corsair's dual channel memory. I am getting ready for a build with water cooling and I am going to oc to the hilt. I mean extreme and I know most of the parts that I am going to use. As far as a higher and more stable oc, which mobo and ram combo do you recommend?
As for the water cooling, I will stick with Innovatek for the most part. Their the best in my eyes, but some of their stuff is out of stock, so I'll use some Koolance parts and so on. Eheim pumps are hard to beat.

When choosing DDR3, lower timings are always better, given the same frequency. Don't sweat the specific numbers too much. Lower is better in each case.

Yes, but these are small changes.

what's sa 2 memory?

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Is there any performance difference between DDR2 800 MHZ and DDR3 1333 MHZ or the difference purely lies in timing of the RAM ?
I am not talking about 2-3 % performance difference which is not even noticeable.
What is the effect of DDR3 or DDR2 or with changed timing on gaming?
I mean, should i go for DDR2 or DDR3 as i am building a new pc?I can buy a mobo accordingly if the difference is huge for gaming.
My current config is
GTX 260 sonic, AMD 550 BE, 600 watt PSU, (1440 * 900 ) monitor.
RAM and mobo i will buy.

try this http://www.passmark.com/products/rammon.htm