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1 Gig Ram is Enough !?
AMD X2 4200 dual core
Asus A8N SLI Premium 2 x Geforce 7800 GTX This is a gaming system.. it currently has two sticks of 512 meg corsair 400mzh at 2-2-2-5 in slots 1 and 3.... The system seems to kick arse... but I'm curious if I am missing anything.... What (if any) benefits would I see by going to 4 x 512 meg sticks? |
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1 Gig Ram is Enough !?
It depends on whether your game would use it.
You could run task manager during a game and then alt-tab out and see how much free memory you have left. If lots, then you don't need more. On the other hand it's nice to have a mammoth disk cache for reentering levels quickly. Trainz didn't really start to be comfortable until I put in 2 gigs. But it is a freak, because people can create their own worlds and they put in as much detail as they like and then you need a Cray to run it. The worlds can be fine art. If you plan on using Vista 64 bit, I saw one list of what it would like and it said 2 gigs. So if you're getting a matched set for dual channel it would be a good idea to get it all at once so it's truly matched. Manufacturers can change their memory a little under the same part numbers. These days you could get 2 1-gig sticks for about what 4 512 sticks would cost. As you've noticed if you've checked in tast manager, XP starting up with an antivirus and sound card uses about a quarter-gig. For some reason, it pages some stuff to disk even when it's starting up in 2 gigs. But you may not need 2 gigs. -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. Bring the Troops Home: http://bringthemhomenow.org Fight Spam: http://bluesecurity.com |
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1 Gig Ram is Enough !?
1 Gig is greate for me. Might get 2 When i get my X2 3800+. Want to use it for HD video encodeing as well as games and such :0 On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 19:16:07 -0800, "Ed Light" wrote: It depends on whether your game would use it. You could run task manager during a game and then alt-tab out and see how much free memory you have left. If lots, then you don't need more. On the other hand it's nice to have a mammoth disk cache for reentering levels quickly. Trainz didn't really start to be comfortable until I put in 2 gigs. But it is a freak, because people can create their own worlds and they put in as much detail as they like and then you need a Cray to run it. The worlds can be fine art. If you plan on using Vista 64 bit, I saw one list of what it would like and it said 2 gigs. So if you're getting a matched set for dual channel it would be a good idea to get it all at once so it's truly matched. Manufacturers can change their memory a little under the same part numbers. These days you could get 2 1-gig sticks for about what 4 512 sticks would cost. As you've noticed if you've checked in tast manager, XP starting up with an antivirus and sound card uses about a quarter-gig. For some reason, it pages some stuff to disk even when it's starting up in 2 gigs. But you may not need 2 gigs. |
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"Nikonja" wrote in message .. . On 4 Nov 2005 18:16:17 -0800, wrote: AMD X2 4200 dual core Asus A8N SLI Premium 2 x Geforce 7800 GTX This is a gaming system.. it currently has two sticks of 512 meg corsair 400mzh at 2-2-2-5 in slots 1 and 3.... The system seems to kick arse... but I'm curious if I am missing anything.... What (if any) benefits would I see by going to 4 x 512 meg sticks? I don't think you'll see any diference with all other things you have ! Might make a difference in BF2 (I noticed less HDD activity) but with most current game 1 - 1.5 GB is sufficient. I think I'd probably go for 2 x 1 GB now sticks at least with my Gigabyte s939 board. |
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