Is 256 1066mhz RDRAM enough (for extreme gaming, lots of appz, and overclocking)? As good as 512 ddr 2700?

[elekid]

read topic. this stuff is pricey!

 

[etalns]

Yes, that should run fine.

It all depends on how you run your system, do you do your gaming while your apps are up, or do you close down most of your apps then go playing.

256 MB of 1066 RDRAM should be able to handle basically a good sort of load you throw at it, but if you plan to throw up Adobe Photoshop, with Illustrator and Flash both loaded up the same time and play Return to Castle wolfenstein with a CS server also running in the background, then you'll run into problems .

 

[MistaTastyCakes]

If I were you I'd go for 512 of some nice DDR. 256 will get you by in XP, but 512 is the sweet spot for the OS and most users who game and such. XP will page a LOT less to your hard drive in games with 512 megs, and you'll be bale to multitask a bit better if you run any memory intensive apps, as stated above. If you're gonna be doing some overclocking, get some nice PC2700 or PC3000 and you'll close the gap between DDR and RDRAM by a bit.

 

[naukkis]

Best case is to get 512MB PC800, that probably also overclocks at leastPC1066-levels.