Which is better (more RAM or OCing CPU)

[Mattlock2]

I justed added another 256mb of ram to my system but it is CAS3 and will not handling gaming at PIII700 oc'd to 933

Which is better

A) PIII700 @ 980 with 256mb of Crucial PC133 Cas2

or

B) PIII 700 @ 700 with 512mb (256mb Crucial PC133 Cas2 and 256mb Generic PC133 Cas3)

I am currently overclocked at 933 with generic ram but Games quit after 5 minutes of play.
I am thinking of taking the 256 generic out and OC to 980 with 256

Any thoughts?

Mattlock

 

[joe4324]

man... I'm really going to say the 512MB unless your playing REALLY old games...

 

[DivideBYZero]

Flog the new cas3 stick and get some cas2, then bang it up to 900+

SDRAM is cheap as chips so shouldn't break the bank.

 

[Mattlock2]

bump

 

[bfonnes]

I say forget about the new games. New games are all graphics Windows XP eats half your memory.
Heck, go with DOS! All anyone ever needs is 640k

 

[railer]

Increasing your memory isn't going to buy you crap in games. Nothing. Zero. Zilch. It would be one thing if you were woefully under in your memory right now...like say you had 32 or 48 megs or something ridiculous like that. Then and only then would lack of memory be your bottleneck. With 256 megs, you're not going to see any difference. Look at some benches between 64 meg and 128 meg video cards; there is NO DIFFERENCE until the game texture swap size starts to get up around 64 megs. That is where the 128 meg cards start to pull away. It's the same with system memory. 512 MB of RAM is great if you're going to have seven instances of Photoshop open at once, but for gaming......it's worthless.