faster 2gig Ram or upgrade Vista for 4gig?

Hi guys, I have 2Gig of 667Mhz Ram in my new system and I am thinking of upgrading already. My flight sim FSX is running a bit slow!!, I was looking at 800Mhz as this is the fastest my system will handle will this make a big difference? my other option is to upgrade vista to 64bit and go with 4gig of Ram which would be the better option? Thanks.

What is your current set up?

Set up is

Intel E6700 2.6gig, CPU

Corsair Value S. PC5300 DDR2 2048MB, Ram

EVGA nForce 680i SLI, nForce-680i SLI, Socket-775 ,MOBO

Gainward GeForce 8800GTS 640MB GDDR3, PCI-Express, GPU

OCZ Technology Powersupply ATX 520W, PSU

i dont think you would notice all that differance from 667 to 800Mhz but i could be wrong.



i would just buy an extra 2Gb of ram if you game on Vista.



btw nice rig

Upgrading to Vista definately won't make your Flight Simulator run any faster. I believe it would make it run even more sluggish since Windows Vista 64-bit is a memory hog. Windows XP 32-bit requires less resources and utilizes a maximum of 3.25 to 3.5 gigabytes of Random Access Memory.



Have you tried lowering the graphic settings on your game to see if it runs any better?



I second the opinion also already given. I don't think PC2-6400 memory would show much of an improvement over PC2-5300. I think you would just be burning money replacing your current chips with PC2-6400 memory.



Just buy 2 more gigabytes of the same brand of PC2-5300 if you want to upgrade to more memory. But I would toggle with the graphics settings of your game first and see if that works.

Thanks guys I will try them few things!