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RAM Upgrade=Bye to WoW Lag?

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TheBiggmann

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I've just kind of dealt with lag in certain areas of World of Warcraft, but I think it's time to address it. I'm playing it on a 2.5 ghz C2D pre unibody MBP with the GeForce 8600M GT and 2 GB of RAM. Do you think adding a bit more RAM is gonna solve that issue? Also, I believe this has 2x1GB sticks, so am I basically stuck buying a 4 GB stick or will adding 1x2GB to one of the slots give me a pretty noticeable increase. I believe this system supports up to 6GB but I might be wrong about that.
 
What I would suggest is this.. This is how I found out that it would be a benefit to me to have more RAM.

Open WoW in a window, and have Activity Monitor open to System Memory. Watch as you're playing. If you see Free go down to 0 and Page Outs going up, then more memory will benefit you.

However, what I'm betting is that it's probably a HDD read speed issue rather than RAM.
 
The ram should help.. 2GB is fairly low. Lag in Warcraft is also due to everything needed to be cached to/from memory constantly so your hard drive speed will improve that as well.
 
Aight, thanks! I'm assuming as far as cost/performance increase ratio goes, ram is gonna be the best upgrade for now? Also, could you recommend some decent ram for a reasonable price? Or is ram, ram? Haha
 
anything with DDR2-800 will work, but your computer might throttle the ram speed down to DDR2-667. i remember my 2.2ghz santa rosa mbp throttled down the ram speeds from 800 to 667, but thats besides the point.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231154 - thats 2x2GB (4GB) from gskill, and its DDR2-667 - $79.99.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231156 - gskill again, 2x2GB (4GB), but DDR2-800 - $73.99 (cheaper!), but its showing as OoS.


pretty much any 2x2GB DDR2-667/800 kit that you'll find will be under $100, so that will be approximately how much you'll spend on it. 🙂 hope this helps!
 
out of those three links, i wouldnt recommend the 2nd link because they have heatspreaders on them and it might not fit in the mbp. links 1 and 3 are totally fine. link 1 has lower/faster timings than link 3.
 
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