[garasaki]

I still think he's going to have driver headaches, XP or not. XP will help (tons) but I still don't believe it'd go smoothly. Not nearly as smooth as if he did a full reformat.

It's not the quanity of ram that makes the difference, it's the speed. DDR ram is over 2x as fast as regular SDRAM. The motherboards that use DDR ram are much more advanced then those using SDRAM. Just because you use SDRAM still does not make it a good option.

I just don't see the point of half assed upgrading a system. Headaches for minor improvements...just dosent make sense to me. I went thru the same thing not too long ago when I built my comp. Decided there was no point to trying to piecewise upgrade, because the benefits did not seem to justify the expense. However, spending a few extra bucks to gain signifigant performance improvements seems like the way to go for me.

What are your Sisoft Sandra memory scores, cpu scores, your 3dmark scores, and your PCmark scores ED?? I have a 1600+ as well, we can compare and see if DDR ram really does make a big difference. I have 256 megs of it, and a Ti4200. I'll turn my fsb back down to where it should be at and we can go head to head! I'd like to do that just for curiousity's sake....