Video Card and Memory

[harley hellboy]

With the better video cards out there do you really think that the memory on you computer needs to be 4 gigs. What I'm asking is if you already have 2 gigs do you think going to 4 gigs is necessary.

 

[cmdrdredd]

If you run x64 then more memory can't hurt, it can only help.

 

[Murloc]

I would buy a 2x2gb kit in any case.

 

[taltamir]

4gb was very useful years ago. My FPS would tank in some games at 1920x1200 with 2GB but held well with 4GB (windows XP64bit).

 

[tyler811]

If you are running Vista or XP64 bit then 4 gigs is your answer. Actually four gigs is the only way to go. Get the highest rated speed though for your machine. I built one last (E8400 8800GT 2x350 0 raid 650 power plant Gigabyte Mobo) but used some 667 memory. Just for giggles I went out and bought the 1066 and saw a dramatic increase in performance.

 

[sonnygdude]

The guys at Corsair put out an article a while back that showed the benefits of more memory with some games, and drastic improvements in alt+tabbing and load times. Their position was that it had to do a lot with less access to the page file, so you weren't waiting for the hard drive. Of course they're trying to sell memory, but the benefits are definitely there.

Plus, memory is so cheap right now, why not go 4GB?

 

[Sylvanas]

I have been running 4 gigs on Vista 64 since the OS was released, no problems and smooth as silk. Recently two of my Ram sticks went bad and I am back down to 2GB now, and I can definitely tell the difference. General responsiveness is down, there is disk thrashing and when I have alot of tabs open in Firefox and doing something else in the background it soon gets relatively bogged down. 4GB is the only way to go.