I currently have Corsair 2GB 533mhz DDR2 ram (2x1GB) running in dual channel mode but Ebuyer are currently offering 2GB 800mhz (2x1GB) for under £50 I am not interested in Oclocking so my question is will I see a significant performance increase if I purchased the 800mz memory to make it worth while buying?

Current Rig

Athlon 64 X2 6000
250GB Sata HHDs
XFX 7600GT XXX
Seasonic S12 430watt PSU

No, you wont see any differnce at all, at best you will nock a secound of your start up time.

save your cash and buy a better graphics card.

Cheers for the advice, yes I will look at a direct 10 graphics card when ATI have some main stream cards out & some reviews of direct 10 performance games are out, so I can then see a comparisons between Nvidia & ATI.

Hi ianb,

Reidy is right.

We made several benchmarks here and even though there is a performance gain on the memory subsystem, this memory gain isn't passed thru the whole system for normal applications. You may see something like a 3-5% performance gain on Quake 4, but honestly we think spending money somewhere else (like the video card like Reidy mentioned) is a far better strategy to improving your PC performance.

Cheers,
Gabriel.

Not much of a gain at all, only trans rate between the MCH and Memory banks would be affected 2 my knowledge, Gabriels % rates of improovement seem very accurate on the gain u would likely witness. As far as the graphics cards go, this site has reviews on some in which give the best Bang for the Buck to date, check um out.