Dream Machine

[Bruce A Thompson]

Noticable difference?

Possibly. In your case, not much at all.

It really boils down to two items. Speed and computing power. They are not the same.

It is like watching a sprint car race. Your car is the fastest and runs consistently in the lead. The number two car is always on your bumper and is the source of many "photo" finishes as he is actually just as fast as you car is.

While his car is no faster, in the photos, you notice he is always pulling a trailer load of tools behind him.

Without the trailer, the engine turns the same speed and the gear ratios are the same, so his car will go the same speed as with it.

All 4 Gigs of 800 RAM is going to do is allow you to carry a bigger load at the same speed. Works out that, if your machine is not overloaded, you probably are not going to see any real noticable difference in your performance.

Your machine is extreme high performance already. I mean to say that it is operating at a very small % of its capacity. Unless you are running SETI work units or a folding program in the background, or both, you are not going to see much of a difference going to 4 GIGs at all. Your Pitstop score won't change one bit.

I would much rather see you upgrade to 2 GIGs of 1066 RAM. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145043

That will make a noticable difference in your machine as it will be 50% faster.

Your machine is also setup with an extremely high performance air cooling system. It can handle anything you want to load in the box. It will also handle overclocking to some degree. As long as you don't go into "Extreme" overclocking you won't need any more fans.

BT