Testing - Load Times

My final testing is of the biggest difference that you will see with using 4 gigs of memory as opposed to 2 gigs.application loading times. Corsair's testing gave me the idea for this. To see the results of Corsair's testing, and also a huge amount of other information concerning using 4GB of memory rather than 2GB, see their Gaming Performance Analysis page at: http://www.corsair.com/_appnotes/AN804_Gaming_Performance_Analysis.pdf

The testing consisted of starting a stopwatch as I launched the application, and stopping as soon as the application started, or in the case of Vista, as soon as it was usable. Each was tested three times, with the system rebooted each time.

I never actually measure launch times. I would have thought that PS took longer than that to launch. Nearly two seconds doesn't sound like much, but 4 gigs shaved off 15.7%.

The extra memory saved 21.1%. I may reboot 20 or more times while overclocking, the extra time taken with using only 2 gigs adds up.

Only 13.4% difference here. The least savings of my testing.

The 4 gig kit took off 25 seconds, amounting to a 35.6% time savings.

Here was the largest change both seconds and percent, 38.9%.