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I agree, and I think it is more of a placebo effect, that something new or different "feels" faster. I was just commenting that typically when memory is bad, it isn't going to run or act slower....it will be giving off errors and lead to app or system crashes. The only other thing I could think of is some error on the motherboard's side to determine the speed form the SPD chip on the different sticks, but even then, it would have to run at a drastically different speed to even be withint the noticeable realm. I wouldn't even expect a noticeable difference between DDR2 and DDR3 if all other compnents stay the same, so it is more unlikely to see a difference in two types of DDR2.