New RAM doesnt seem to work

fatal

Hi,

I have a ConRoe945G-DVI motherboard and I just bought 2 gigs additional G.Skill ram.I have upgraded the ram from 1 gig to 3 gigs but my computer does not seem to be any faster.On startup and in the properties of "my computer" 3 gigs of ram are detected.
The specs for the motherboard can be found here http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=ConRoe945G-DVI and this is the ram that I bought http://www.memoryc.com/products/description/2Gb_G_Skill_DDR2_PC2_6400_CL5_Dual_Channel_kit-2x1Gb-NQ_Series/index.html

Does anyone know how to speed things up as they should be?

Thanks

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Best not to mix different types of RAM I think.

As an experiment, try removing the original stick (the first gig) and see if that makes any difference.

fatal

Sean_K wrote:

Best not to mix different types of RAM I think.

As an experiment, try removing the original stick (the first gig) and see if that makes any difference.

Ive tried that but no luck.

humbert

At the risk of stating the obvious, ram wont actually speed up programs loading. I upgraded because the apps I was running required more ram than i had and paging was slowing everything down something awful. Since installing the new ram the computer runs much as it did on a fresh install even when firefox/photoshop/other rubbish is running but there was no impressive difference.

fatal

humbert wrote:

At the risk of stating the obvious, ram wont actually speed up programs loading. I upgraded because the apps I was running required more ram than i had and paging was slowing everything down something awful. Since installing the new ram the computer runs much as it did on a fresh install even when firefox/photoshop/other rubbish is running but there was no impressive difference.

Im a noob when it comes to computers so when I was running a few programmes at a time and they were slowing down I thought that more ram would make a difference.I saw a bargain and decided to get it