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dsj

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Originally posted by: 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. :)

I told you that he seems to know a lot about computers.
 

nick1985

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Originally posted by: dsj
Originally posted by: 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. :)

I told you that he seems to know a lot about computers.

well he is wrong. do you want me to go into BF2, then take a screen shot of my memory usage?
 

dsj

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He says that the more ram you have the more ram the games will use. It's kind of the porportional idea.
 

nick1985

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Originally posted by: dsj
He says that the more ram you have the more ram the games will use. It's kind of the porportional idea.

...:confused:

That is the most bizarre thing I have ever heard...
 

NatePo717

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Originally posted by: dsj
He says that the more ram you have the more ram the games will use. It's kind of the porportional idea.

Of course they will use more because they can access more when needed to keep the game running smooth. Hence why 2 GB for BF2 is a good idea because it can use more then 1Gig of memory.
 

bob4432

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Originally posted by: dsj
He says that the more ram you have the more ram the games will use. It's kind of the porportional idea.

"He" is wrong again. so in his idiotic thinking if i have a machine that has 4GB, the game will use 3.8GB of ram (assuming the os takes 200MB)? this is ridiculous. your friend is a moron that is stuck a couple behind us and has absolutely know programming knowledge....
 

BOLt

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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

Yes.
 

dsj

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Originally posted by: 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?
Can anyone reply to this?
 

bob4432

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Originally posted by: dsj
Originally posted by: 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?
Can anyone reply to this?

could be a bios update, somebody didn't know what they were doing, many things...