What would better help my FPS?

[tfcmasta97]

Would I be better off getting 1gb of high quality ram, or 2gb of decent, brand named ram?

Or even, 3 gbs of cheapie, nonamed generic ram

 

[Corporate Thug]

3 gb is overkill

what cpu are u running? also depends on the game.

 

[intogamer]

need more info....

 

[coomar]

i get no fps difference running in dual channel and single (benchmark), but dual channel is noticebly smoother (single channel was almost unplayable)

 

[blckgrffn]

um, if your budget allows, just get 2 gig of the patriot stuff with 2-3-2-5 timings, that should do pretty well as far as quantity/quality goes...

Nat

 

[tfcmasta97]

My rig consists of:

P4 2.4B
512+256mb RAM (PC2700)
250gb 7200rpm HDD
ATI Radeon X800 pro


I play:
Half life 2, and other source engine games
Madden 2005
A lot of BF2

some other games that already run perfectly fine like SC, WC3, Original CS.

 

[tfcmasta97]

I was thinking of buying a new CPU, but i have no money at all for any meaningful upgrade.

I was also thinking I could try some real basic low level overclocks, but ive never done any before and have heard too many horror stories.

also another problem is that I only have 2 dimm slots, but i guess i could (if 2gbs is really worth it, over 1.5gb), upgrade and sell off my current ram.

 

[blckgrffn]

Time for a cpu uprgade along with that ram

Try a 3400+ on a nice socket 754 with for mentioned 2 gigs of ram and you will play everything fast. I am guessing from the CPU/mem upgrade you could gain upwards of 30 FPS in many games, including the new ones.

Nat

 

[RussianSensation]

2 gig of PC3200 ram at any timings will be much better than the fastest 1 gig of ram in the world for high-end systems. However, in your case your X800Pro and P4 2.4ghz will limit you way before 2 gigs of ram is beneficial. I would try to overclock that cpu to 3.0ghz. Otherwise you can look into s939 AGP platform. BF2 is a memory hog though. The other games will be fine with 768 you have already.

Your choices depend on how much money you want to spend. You can always pick up a stick of 512 mb and replace that 256 you have. In your case, I would probably overclock the cpu and videocard first before anything. After, I'd look into upgrading to PCIe, and a new AMD socket in 2006. By then, AGP will be close to dead, DDR2 the norm for both Intel and AMD. New audigy soundcard will be here. It'd probably not make much difference to keep investing money into your current system.

 

[gac009]

2 gigs is more than enough, if you needed more you would already know.
BF2 likes 2 gigs.
Personally I would prefer 2 gigs of value ram to 1 gig performance.

 

[JBT]

Between the two options you listed 2GB of value your is much better than 1GB of performance ram.

 

[Jaxidian]

Originally posted by: JBT
Between the two options you listed 2GB of value your is much better than 1GB of performance ram.

agreed

 

[ryanv12]

If you can deal with a rebate

I would look to upgrade that processor though. Your memory improvement will not get its full potential. Either way, you can get a socket 939 system later and take your video card and memory with it. They even have a new PCI/AGP motherboard coming out (on the AT main page) that you can buy later and then have a path to upgrading your GPU

 

[blckgrffn]

Yeah, I am thinking of moving to that mobo if the actual production boards can oc that well and have vdim voltage adjustments

Nat

 

[zendari]

I'm going to be do some testing on this later. I have 1 gig of PC 3200 valueram and 1 gig of PC 2100 valueram coming in. We'll see if whether 1 gig of PC3200 or 2 gigs of PC 2100 is faster.

 

[rise]

Originally posted by: zendari
I'm going to be do some testing on this later. I have 1 gig of PC 3200 valueram and 1 gig of PC 2100 valueram coming in. We'll see if whether 1 gig of PC3200 or 2 gigs of PC 2100 is faster.

you really think pc2100 could be faster?