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any use for getting 1GB of DDRAM?

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Can anyone tell me if its worth another 120 bucks to get 512MB more of DDRAM to bring my DDR total to 1GB? I play ALOT of games and such... will I see a performance difference or is it just a waste of cash?
 
People say in this forum that it does not give you more performance in games........only in some serious programs(CAD...photoshop...etc??)...but if you can afford it..why not?
I do know that games load and exit a lot smoother and faster with 512MB of RAM than when I had 256MB in my system running WInXP.
 
Yes, if you plan to use Windows 2000 or XP. NT based OS will take as much memory as you can give it.
 
If it's either that or getting a faster videocard/HD, then go for the videocard/HD. If you can afford both, even better. Unless Photoshopping or doing 3d rendering, don't bother.. you will of course enjoy loading Quake3 from memory even after using your PC for a few hours 😉
 
i use winXP, and with a good amount of stuff running (no photoshop or CAD), i'm only using 180 meg of the 320 megs..so I'd say no 🙂 $120 is a lot of money, spend it on something else
 
For gaming?
No.
I really can't see 1GB of RAM being of much benefit in virtually any game irregardless of what OS your using.
 
i could definitely use that one gig.

Oracle 8i databse -> takes 400MB
IBM WebSphere w/ Commerce Suite -> 200MB
toss in a directory server and some other tools and i am looking at 800MB.

 
If you do not want to run a database, a web/ftp server, photoshop, maya/3ds max on your computer, then 512 Mb is enough for now. Also I think 256 Mb is the minimum requirement for Windows XP if you want to run programs/games smoothly.
 
Take the $120 and stuff it away in your sock. When the next flavor of the week video card comes out, treat yourself to that instead...the memory won't do a thing for you...
 
I am just wondering, back in the old days (1989/1990) we could prove that sometimes it HURT performance to put more RAM in your system. Reason being, you have to refresh RAM in order for it not to lose it's contents. If you put 16M in your machine back then, we had no software to utilize it. You would see Norton SI actually decrease the so-called speed of the machine by putting in more RAM. We even used to reprogram the countdown timer in the DMA chip so RAM was not refreshed as often and we would see that SI would say the machine was faster by increasing the DMA register that affected how often the refresh took place. So, wouldn't this still hold true, you are spending more time refreshing more RAM that you possibly aren't seeing any performance, nor even being used if you are running a 9x product? I am behind the times so I am open to bashing if I am way off base. Let me know. thanks!
 
MS says the minimum for XP is 64. I tried it, it stinks. Armada 6500 laptop PII 300. 128 is much better than 64 but 64 does function. Increasing from 128 to 192 is not nearly as dramatic as the 64 to 128. Granted I do not do anything fancy on this machine (obviously) and it uses 78M when just sitting (antivirus installed).

My two cents.
 
there are times that 1gb may be useful... wheny our doing MANY MANY things...or doing something that really graphic intensive.... or playing Everquest SoL expansion... which is highly graphical and a memory hog... its minimum RAM requirement is 256mb, and it runs like crap like that... i have to have at least 512mb to make it run ok and with 1gig it runs great... but hey its the most awesome game in the world so its worth it... 1 gig of ram and 3 and a half gig of hard drive space... ahhhhhh
 
yeah sure, if you want to be a glutton like everyone else in the world, why not? It's not like you need it.
 
The coolest thing you say about a PC is "I got a GIG of RAM".

That sounds way better and less geekier than "I have a 2x120 GB 7200 RPM Western Digital Hard Drives in a RAID-0 configuration!", or "I have a GeForce3 Ti-550 videocard with custom-attached all-copper heatsinks which allows me to overclock it to 600 MHz!"
 
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