[Cew27]

at the moment i have 2 gig of ocz 1066mhz sli ready ram would i benefit from anther 2, will i get
smoother/ more stable game play
general al round better performance
and a faster boot time ?
cheers

[hAvAAck]

your sig says you run 64bit, so yes, you'll recognize all 4 gigs
if you had 32 bit you'd only get 3.2 or so, but that'd be an increase, only smaller.
in general. obviously if you get worse RAM, etc results will vary

[Cew27]

i will get identical ram

[Hybr!d]

Your sig also says you have 4GB... ?

[Cew27]

its because i was going to get it earlier but thaugfht id ask here first

[serverguy]

Originally Posted by Cew27

smoother/ more stable game play ?

Possibly. Depends on a variety of things and the sort of games you are playing. Are you having problems at the moment with stability etc?

general al round better performance?

Technically yes but you will not notice it unless you are using programs that can utilise all the memory. Vista64 can use it all.

and a faster boot time ?

I very much doubt it. Boot mainly depends on the hard drive. Get a Raptor if you want fast boots (less than 30 seconds).

[Cew27]

my boot is 27 on ubuntu with my 750 gig seagate barracuda

[Gazmondo]

Originally Posted by serverguy

I very much doubt it. Boot mainly depends on the hard drive. Get a Raptor if you want fast boots (less than 30 seconds).

I have two 36gb Raptors in RAID0 and my boot time isn't something to be boasting about

[Cew27]

try ubuntu is boots in half the time of windows

[Gazmondo]

I attempted a tri-boot with XP, Vista and Ubuntu, and it failed, miserably.

First the new bootloader Vista had wasn't working, and when it did, the GRUB loader just laughed when I tried that.

Once I get my new build sorted, I'll be ditching the raptors (and are for sale) as they don't really offer a speed increase for my needs compared to a large 500gb hdd. I'll also be attempting the tri-boot again, between XP Pro, Vista Ultimate (32/64) and Ubuntu.

Till then, I have more than enough on my mind