Why does my PC seems slower in 3gb Ram than it was with 2gb Ram?

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RifatAhmed

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I had 2 1gb sticks installed but today i upgraded one stick with a 2gb stick so it's 3gb and technically it should've made the pc faster but instead i feel it has slowed down!

I use Bluestacks with 2gb ram it used to run smoothly but now after upgrading the ram it's laggy all the time! 🙁
 
Solution
the samsung actually is 800MHz (PC26400U) too, with CL7 should be a typo there
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the timings of the twinmos RAM ist still better (CL5) but your system is bound to the timing of the worst -> CL6. You can try to lower the timing in BIOS, but it´s unlikely the system will run stable then

check with the tool CPU-Z, at which clock the RAM actually currently runs. Go to the tab "memory". There the DRAM frequency will be shown. The "real" frequency will be double because of DDR (double data rate) marketing.
Alos there will be shown if the RAM is running in dual channel mode or not and the actual timings

like:
http://members.chello.nl/r.wieland1/memory.jpg


To be sure your RAM works fine, run memtest from a burnt CD or try...
well the multitasking performance is much more better as expected and the pc doesn't hangs even when i open 20 tabs but browsing through web seems slower and the pc also seems a bit slow when doing different works!