"Uncle Nobby" <unc@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:u6Go9rBjIHA.2268@xxxxxx
Quote:
> Hi
>
> I have windows Vista which had 2Gb of memory.
> The index was 5.2, that was the memory score.
>
> I have added another 2Gb.
> As its a 32bit OS only 3.5 GB is detected, but when I updated my windows
> experience the score went down for 5.2 to 5.
>
> Shouldn't it have gone up?
There's a lot of theories as to why this is. What it seems to come to is
many motherboards and some CPUs don't perform as well if you fill all four
DIMM slots. See the following thread for most of the theories on why this
happens.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/24...channel-memory
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Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/