1 Gig VS 2 Gig RAM Benchmark

[Concillian]

Originally posted by: Looney

Originally posted by: Stas

Originally posted by: JavaMomma
I too am wondering, I play alot of World of Warcraft and I have 1GB. I am thinking of getting 2GB of OCZ PC3200 VX RAM. I could not find any benchmarks between 1GB vs 2GB

Believe me, WoW does not need 2GB of RAM. In fact, 512MB should be plenty.

You obviously never played WoW before. Can you run on 512mb? Absolutely, but there is a huge difference when you move up to 1gb... anybody who has ever played the game at 512mb vs 1gb can tell you that, to assume anything else is just ridiculous. Now, will 2gb give you the same increase when you get from 512mb to 1gb... i don't know, i haven't played WoW myself with 2GB yet (i'll probably try out WoW in a few weeks).

I didn't see a huge difference going to 2GB, very small increase, see my other comments in the thread. But I played for a while at 512MB, just to try it out (I try a lot of things with games I play to try to really understand how hardware impacts performance of the game). 512MB just sucked. I can't believe they have a 256MB min spec. I was not brave enough to try 256MB after playing with 512MB.

 

[Auric]

Oh god not again.

RAM is simply fast temporary storage from which applications can run. There is either 'nuff capacity to prevent paging or there isn't. Once there is 'nuff, additional capacity does nothing.

Task Manager -> Performance tells you explicitly the requirements for your usage (commit charge peak vs physical total).

 

[JavaMomma]

Originally posted by: Concillian

Originally posted by: JavaMomma

Originally posted by: Kensai

Originally posted by: Stas

Originally posted by: JavaMomma
I too am wondering, I play alot of World of Warcraft and I have 1GB. I am thinking of getting 2GB of OCZ PC3200 VX RAM. I could not find any benchmarks between 1GB vs 2GB

Believe me, WoW does not need 2GB of RAM. In fact, 512MB should be plenty.

WoW lags with even 2GB of ram in TM and 200-300 players whacking at each other. More is better in WoW.

Thats what I was thinking. I lag out for almost a full minute in Ironforge with 1GB of RAM. So many people all those graphics and stuff need to be loaded up and they are cached in virtual memory. I checked memory usage WoW uses 450MB of physical memory, and 450MB of virtual memory on my system.

Sorry to say, but that doesn't get much better with 2GB. I still lag like hell going into Orgrimmar (or Ironforge if I ever play alliance, which is pretty rare, because I can't stand some of the people who play alliance). That appears to be a server related issue. Same thing with large scale PvP, it's Blizzards issue, not a client issue. With 2GB, tracked memory usage doesn't change much from where it is with 1GB, at least in my experience. There is some less disc thrashing, but there is still quite a bit. WoW just doesn't seem to be setup to work well with lots of RAM.

My guess is that the servers will only transmit to each client at some specified rate, and no higher. So when you're in an area with lots of others, you just don't have the bandwidth to transfer the needed information back and forth. When I startup in Orgrimmar, I will load, then if I hit the map I will pause for 20 seconds, then if I open my mailbox I will pause for 20 seconds, then if I open the guild window, I will pause for 20 seconds.... All indications are that the lag is due to tranfers with the database server, and not client side issues.

Thank you so much this what I wanted to hear, someone who knows what they are talking about. Thank you. I have gone with 1GB of RAM.

It seems so many people just say it will do nothing and yet have never used the software. I've read so many threads lately on 1GB vs 2GB and so many people just say it does nothing without even reading what software the person uses. I even read one where a guy argued that Photoshop loads fine on his machine with 1GB and you do not need more for working with Photoshop, even though guy was insisting he did and simply wanting to know what RAM to buy. Arg...

Thank you again for the excellent post.

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: Auric
Oh god not again.

RAM is simply fast temporary storage from which applications can run. There is either 'nuff capacity to prevent paging or there isn't. Once there is 'nuff, additional capacity does nothing.

Task Manager -> Performance tells you explicitly the requirements for your usage (commit charge peak vs physical total).

Ahhhhhh, the logic.....it burns my brain!!!!!!!!