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Going from 4GB of XMS DDR 400 to 2GB of XMS2 DDR2 800

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UMfanatic

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I am upgrading my computer from a AMD X2 to a Intel Core 2 Duo, the XMS2 ram is rather expensive and in my budget of everything I can only afford 2GB I currently use 4GB of XMS DDR 400, will I notice a huge difference in the drop in amount of ram?
 
for gaming and my homework at school, I would go for 4GB of ram but my 4GB of XMS ram was 332 as opposed to the 558 it would cost for 4GB of XMS2
 
For most games and all school work, you will notice no difference between 4 GB and 2 GB of ram. Depending on how often you upgrade, I would reccomend just going with 2x1 GB and uprading that X1600XT for the games.
 
zero difference for you sir. stick with 2gb. also, consider getting something cheaper than xms. not really worth the price premium 🙂
 
well I will upgrade the video cards later, I already have one X1600XT so getting a second one for crossfire fits in the budget, I have had corsair ram for the last 7 years, I have never had a single problem with them, and the XMS ram has been amazing, I am spending about 1150 dollars including shipping on upgradings, a good chunk of that is going towards the motherboard and cpu
 
I appreciate Corsair ram as well however, unless you plan on doing a significant amount of OCing, the value ram is very good.

While not attempting to dissuade you from going Crossfire, the money you save on ram and the extra change from selling your X1600XT can get you a single card with better performance than the 2 X1600XT's in Crossfire.
 
as I said in your other thread, keep the AMD X2, sell 2 GB of RAM, buy an nvidia 8800GTX.

This will help you much more than moving to core 2 with a slow pair of crossfire cards. Your X2 4200+ with 2 GB will be fine for now.
 
Well, the 8800 GTS is cheaper and still is faster than _1_ 1950XTX, but you're set to spend $600+ on CPU, mobo, RAM and they won't help much in games without a fast video card.

The first 8800 review on page 1 of the Video tab above includes both the GTX and GTS.
link!
 
The same recommendations get thrown all over almost every thread for people switching to C2D. For gaming and all general usage an E6400 will be your BEST $/performance and will OC to meet any needs for some future. An $430 8800GTS would be the best video card really don't mess with xfire or sli you will need to spend more money on a psu and a 975 motherboard when the 8800GTS will meet your needs. 2GB of with D9 chips as recommend in this thread here http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=28&threadid=1966035&enterthread=y
 
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
as I said in your other thread, keep the AMD X2, sell 2 GB of RAM, buy an nvidia 8800GTX.

This will help you much more than moving to core 2 with a slow pair of crossfire cards. Your X2 4200+ with 2 GB will be fine for now.
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this would be what i would do unless you are sure you actually do exceed 2GB of ram. have you checked what your ram usage maxes out at? if you use more than 2GB of ram then yes you will notice a difference, if you don't then no you will not notice a difference.

you need to quantify "homework" for all we know you could be a english major just using word or a mechanical engineer using solidworks or some other 3d modeling app that uses tons of cpu cycles and needs lots of ram

for gaming, especially oblivion, they are gpu limited
 
Originally posted by: UMfanatic
what about a 8800GTS, E6400 and a Enermax Liberty PSU
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Not bad. Get the Asus P5B-Deluxe or Gigabyte DS3, 2Gb of the Buffalo Firestix DDR2-800 and an aftermarket HSF; I'd say the Artic Freezer 7 Pro, Thermaltake Tuniq Tower or Zalman 9500/9700.
 
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