Is there a noticeable speed difference between DDR2 PC5300 & PC6400 in everyday use?
Hi.
Looking to place an order for a matched pair of 2 x 1GB of RAM for a Dell Dimension 9200 desktop (C2D E6600).
The .pdf manual states that the mobo supports PC4200, PC5300 and PC6400 RAM.
Have been looking at Crucial RAM amongst other brands and was wondering if there's a noticeable speed difference for everyday use excluding games (internet, e-mail, dvd encoding and burning, playback of HD media content etc) between using PC5300 and PC6400? Prices are £82.24 (PC5300) and £149.57 (PC6400 Ballistix).
Do peeps think it's overkill using PC6400 for my planned uses?
My guess is that it will make the biggest difference to overclockers and hardcore gamers? Is there a big difference in performance between the two, after all it's almost double the price?
Thanks.
Cheekster.
Main system: Dell Dimension 9200: Vista Home Premium/C2D E6600 (2.4GHz)/2GB PC6400 (800MHz) Geil Ultra/1TB SATA II/ATi Radeon X1300 Pro 256MB/Soundblaster Audigy Advanced HD
Business system: Dell Dimension E520: Windows XP Pro/C2D Viiv E4300 (1.86GHz)/2GB PC4200 (533MHz)/160GB SATA II/Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3000 Integrated/Audio Integrated HDA 7.1
HTPC: Sony VAIO VGX XL-201: Windows XP MCE/C2D E6300/3GB PC5300 (667MHz)/1.5TB/nVidia GeForce 256MB 7600GTL/Sigmatel CXD9872RD High Definition Audio+X-Fi Extreme Music
2 x 24" Dell 2407WFP
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