Recent content by lobotiger

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    Drop in performance from OCZ Platinum Enhanced to Premier Series?

    Actually I was referring to the quality of the sticks of memory. I definitely know that going from 512 to 1024 will be a good boost. I'm just wondering whether I can use lesser "quality" sticks for the 1024 than the higher end 512 I currently have. LoboTiger
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    Drop in performance from OCZ Platinum Enhanced to Premier Series?

    I was thinking of selling my existing OCZ 2x256MB sticks of Platinum Enhanced Bandwidth in order to buy 2x512MB of their Premier Series sticks (they're cheaper). Do you guys think that I'll notice any significant performance drops or problems with overclocking? My existing ones are dual channel...
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    Too much hard drive activity with HL2 or Doom 3

    Thanks everyone. Looks like memory is my issue. I managed to free up 100MB of memory on my system by closing off apps that weren't absolutely necessary to run. Freeing this much up managed to give me a smoother gameplay in HL2. Looks like I need to start considering 1GB of RAM for my rig...
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    Too much hard drive activity with HL2 or Doom 3

    Ok guys I need some advice for my computer which is running crappy while playing games of Doom 3 or Half Life 2. I just got a Geforce 6600 GT AGP yesterday (upgrading from a Geforce FX5700) and I thought that game play would be significantly better in these two games. After installing the...