To a certain extent the discussion is a bit academic - agreed. Since you are where you are and stuck with those Dimms, I would not really worry about it. As with many of those performance numbers, they are nice to know, but in real life they may not make a big difference. The main thing is that you are happy with your system and its performance. If you are able to settle with what you have, you made a big step forward.
Yea what I said is going kinda too far in to it all, and doesn't really matter as it's negligible for just general computer usage, unless you need precision to the nanosecond.
As a real-time programmer I knew oft said (though it was in microseconds instead of nanoseconds):
A nanosecond here, a nanosecond there, pretty soon you have real-time!
Seriously though, between 9 and 7 at the same frequency you are talking 29% difference, though it will not translate into that much in reality.
- Gene
Cheers folks! I think my RAM understanding is where it needs to be without getting down to the real nitty gritty. It is funny how these things pass you by, but now I know.
Thanks again.
Glad your satisfied with what you learned and as long as your computer is stable and playing your games the way you want, it's all good.
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