Question about performance

[dsj]

How will this system do? Can it play advanced games in the near future?

Athlon 64 3200+
GA-K8NS Ultra-939
EVGA geforce 6800 GT
1024 MB PC 400 Kingston Valueram

 

[mOeeOm]

Originally posted by: dsj
How will this system do? Can it play advanced games in the near future?

Athlon 64 3200+
GA-K8NS Ultra-939
EVGA geforce 6800 GT
1024 MB PC 400 Kingston Valueram

Get better 2GB ram and you can play any current game on mid-high settings easy. And probably for a year you won't need to upgrade unless you MUST have everything maxed out. IF you are humble like me and don't mind playing games on low-mid you won't be upgrading for a few years

 

[dsj]

Another guy told me that the best modern games don't need over 768 mb of ram. And anything over 1024 is a waste.

 

[mOeeOm]

Originally posted by: dsj
Another guy told me that the best modern games don't need over 768 mb of ram. And anything over 1024 is a waste.

He's silly, BF2 demands 2GB if you want to run at high settings.

 

[Shortass]

BF2 demands no more than 1GB of fast ram and a sexy video card.

 

[dsj]

How much money does 1024MB of pc 400 valueram cost? And which cards are what you call sexy?

 

[dsj]

Originally posted by: mOeeOm

Originally posted by: dsj
Another guy told me that the best modern games don't need over 768 mb of ram. And anything over 1024 is a waste.

He's silly, BF2 demands 2GB if you want to run at high settings.

That guy seems to know a lot about computers although his pc is very old.

 

[dsj]

Currently with the same configuration but with an athlon xp 3000+ I lag on farcry a lot. Farcry has some problems with it's crytek engine. It was supposed to run very well on a fx 5900 ultra.

 

[dsj]

Originally posted by: Shortass
BF2 demands no more than 1GB of fast ram and a sexy video card.

Is pc 400 fast? Amd CPUs can't take anything more.

 

[addinator]

from my experience, bf2 certainly does not need 2gb of ram... providing you have the processor/video card combo to run it.. and personally if you want the best prices on ram, try either newegg.com or pricewatch.com... those always work for me

 

[mOeeOm]

Originally posted by: dsj
How much money does 1024MB of pc 400 valueram cost? And which cards are what you call sexy?

Well I'm getting 2GB pc3200 corsair value select for $272 Canadian...so $221 american, 1GB shud be $110. Sexy cards?

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2466&p=2

Look at the tests, and see what you really want...I'm getting an x800xl or 6800GT.

 

[Shortass]

You need over a gig at this point if you're doing video editing and other multitasking work, but fast ram beats quantity in games once you reach a gig. The 6800GT can run BF2 with max settings on 1280x1024 (I've played with it), and thus it's a sexy card.

 

[mOeeOm]

Originally posted by: Shortass
You need over a gig at this point if you're doing video editing and other multitasking work, but fast ram beats quantity in games once you reach a gig. The 6800GT can run BF2 with max settings on 1280x1024 (I've played with it), and thus it's a sexy card.

What is the rest of your rig?

 

[dsj]

Does farcry lag on every pc?

 

[dsj]

Actually I had some games in mind that I wanted to play on very high settings. That's why I'm asking how will the above specs do.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: dsj
Another guy told me that the best modern games don't need over 768 mb of ram. And anything over 1024 is a waste.

that guy is an idiot. 1GB is not a waste and neither is 2GB especially if you use your machine for cad/cam, video editing, 3d modeling, etc...

wasn't it bill gates that said we will never need more than 640KB of memory...??

 

[dsj]

He is talking about playing games.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: dsj
He is talking about playing games.

1GB is not a waste, it is what is needed to play BF2 and most other current gen games. sure 768MB was fine when the nforce2 came out a couple of years ago, but so was a xp2500 and 9700pro.

your friend is behind in the times and if i were you i wouldn't listen to him, he is probably jealous because you have a nice rig.:thumbsup:

in all reality i play bf2 on my rig with 800x600 most setting on high a 4xAA and when i get out i can see the maxed amount of ram is ~950MB, including the os and my av and a couple of other small programs that are running. when the game is not running just the os idling is using ~220MB so there is ~730MB for the game with my low settings, you crank it up to 1280x1024 and turn on the eye candy and the ram will go up.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Turning graphics settings to the max WILL make BF2 hitch a bit with 1024mbs of RAM. These hitches usually can't be alleviated by a high end graphics card because they are the result of the system running out of memory and hitting the harddrive.

 

[dsj]

I tried battlefield demo on the highest settings at 1024*768 on my current xp and I didn't see a lot of lag. Just the game may pause for tenth of a second every once in a while. I noticed only as I'm turning at that time. And how many ram slots do the nforce 3 ultra motherboards have?

 

[Topweasel]

BF2 and 64 players during heavey movement or large action areas can easily go over a gig.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: dsj
I tried battlefield demo on the highest settings at 1024*768 on my current xp and I didn't see a lot of lag. Just the game may pause for tenth of a second every once in a while. I noticed only as I'm turning at that time. And how many ram slots do the nforce 3 ultra motherboards have?

go to newegg and select motherboards and then set the filter to just show nf3 boards...

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: dsj
I tried battlefield demo on the highest settings at 1024*768 on my current xp and I didn't see a lot of lag. Just the game may pause for tenth of a second every once in a while. I noticed only as I'm turning at that time. And how many ram slots do the nforce 3 ultra motherboards have?

My Epox 9nda3+ has 4 dimm slots.

 

[dsj]

Originally posted by: bob4432

Originally posted by: dsj
I tried battlefield demo on the highest settings at 1024*768 on my current xp and I didn't see a lot of lag. Just the game may pause for tenth of a second every once in a while. I noticed only as I'm turning at that time. And how many ram slots do the nforce 3 ultra motherboards have?

go to newegg and select motherboards and then set the filter to just show nf3 boards...

If you look at the newegg customer review on the motherboard there's some problem with the sata. What is that?

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: dsj
Another guy told me that the best modern games don't need over 768 mb of ram. And anything over 1024 is a waste.

tell that "other guy" that he is dead wrong, and a n00b.