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General Havoc
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To some extent it can increase loading times but it depends. The main bottleneck of most pc's is thei Hard drives as it is one of the slowest components. If you have hard disk witha low STR (Sustained Transfer Rate) then you may be wise replacing that too because it can't load stuff into your RAM faster than it can transfer data. If you have a half decent 7200RPM hard disk then you should be okay and addiotional ram may help in loading times.
Check your CLS values on your current and new RAM, they should be the same for the best performance. A lower CLS value is better. Also if you have 3 ram slots then it is wise to use slots 1 & 3 as some motherboards (nForce1 is an example) don't perform as well when the middle slot is used.
You have got a decent system there but the thing i can see that you may wish to upgrade is your graphics card. With a powerful system the only thing stopping you running the latest games really is your graphics card. A Geforce 4 ti 4200 is a good investment as it is a cheap but powerful card.
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