[specter51095]

im looking into buying a new laptop and i have two im comparing right now and one major diffrence in the two is the ram clock speed they bouth have 2 dimms filled dont know dual channel or not but one has 6GB DDR3 1066MHz SDRAM (4096MB+2048MB) and the other has 6GB DDR2 800MHz SDRAM (4096MB+2048MB) im not planing on overclocking much or at all because its a laptop and i have only so much power to work with but im wondering for gaming and program launch/run speed how much of a diffrence does the 266Mhz gap effect the proformance

 

[bwguy]

Depends on the price of the hardware, faster is better, so about a 20% speed increase.

 

[specter51095]

Depends on the price of the hardware, faster is better, so about a 20% speed increase.

price isnt realy what im woried about the main diffrence in the laptops is the screen size and its a matter of 1.4 inches 17-18.4 and im worndering if its worth getting the larger screen but slower ram

 

[Wrench97]

What CPU's and Video chips are involved?

 

[specter51095]

What CPU's and Video chips are involved?

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T9600 (2.80GHz, 6MB L2, 1066MHz FSB)

and

NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 230M discrete graphics with 1GB DDR3 dedicated memory

same on bouth

 

[grimx133]

I'd say 5 or 6% increase in fps with the 1066. Though that was done with xp, finally got everything working with widnows7, so I'll be running some final (I hope) tests this weekend.

 

[Phædrus241]

Faster RAM doesn't have as much an effect as a faster CPU or GPU, but it will help. Between 700MHz and 1050MHz on my system I saw about a 2fps difference in minimum framerate when playing Fallout 3, and 4fps difference in average framerate.