How to determine how much boose will upgrading ram give?

[yash]

I am looking for some benchmarking utility that will test not only my gaming frame rates but also my start-up time and the time it takes to load typical programs on my pc.I had microsoft bootvis installed at one time but i forgot where i had installed it from.so if anyone know if it came with some magazine cd please tell me which issue because i`d really prefer not having to download it.
My vendor has given me 2 512mb sdram chips for 2 days to test it before having to buy it.so i want to compare the difference between 256 mb and 1gb ram..also, i recently changed my hdd from 5400 rpm seagate st340810a to samsung sp0411n...so i`d expect performance boost because the old one was ultra ata-100 and this is 133 and new one is 7200 rpm! but the seek time of the samsung is 11ms whereas of seagate is 8.9ms but how do i test them? because the old hdd has all softwares installed on it and the new one has the default ones so its bound to seem faster...

[vijay_7287]

bootvis is provided with the autopatcher comin with digit every month

i suggest goin for DDR RAM

[yrana2002]

You can try Fresh Diagnose for your benchmarking needs to test your performance in & after upgrading your RAM.

Also, i would suggest using a simgle 1024 MB RAM card instead of two 512MB ones. It saves you slots, making easier for future upgrades. There is hardly a difference of 1.5K

[dIgItaL_BrAt]

If only upgrading RAM could give us booze....

[kikass]

Originally Posted by dIgItaL_BrAt

If only upgrading RAM could give us booze....

yeah !

[yash]

heh guys that was a typo...and i have only sdram slots on the mobo stop telling me to get ddr already! and I dont think windows vista will run on my config...its a 1.5ghz cpu (32 bit obviously) and SD RAM like i already told u so i dont plan to upgrade this machine after THIS time.so please suggest accordingly! and thanks for telling me it was with autopatcher....I was also wondering where the heck did i install it from last time...heh...