XP 32 - 4Gb or 2Gb

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I am considering a 2x1gb kit for my Q9650. The kit is a DDR3 1866 CellShock using micron D9JNL chips which I've read are very good chips. Now, the status quoe for game machines today are 4Gb machines. Reason being if a person were to upgrade to a 64bit OS like Vista, there would more memory for an upgrade of a matching memory kit.

So, the way XP is, I'd have 1.5Gb of ram for use with gaming. Is that enough??? And how can I see of how much RAM is being used while gaming???

 

[Rebel44]

Many modern games use 2GB RAM for itself so my advice would be to ignore DDR3 (unless you want to buy Nehalem) and buy 4GB DDR2.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

😕

 

[error8]

For XP, only for gaming, 2 gb are enough. For Vista 4 gb is recommended.

 

[andrei3333]

^ yeah 2 gb in XP is plenty for gaming.... for those who check email and just surf the web and write essays in word 1 gb is even enough

cant say the same for vista

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Say if I go ahead with a 2x1Gb kit and XP 32 is using some 1/4th of it, what can I use to see if the other 1.5Gb is being used for any particular game??? I mean, I know I can check task manager (TM) but I'm never really sure what I'm reading in TM & how, if so, do I read it?

 

[honolululu]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
Say if I go ahead with a 2x1Gb kit and XP 32 is using some 1/4th of it, what can I use to see if the other 1.5Gb is being used for any particular game??? I mean, I know I can check task manager (TM) but I'm never really sure what I'm reading in TM & how, if so, do I read it?

Check the 6th post in this thread.
http://www.windowsbbs.com/hard...-task-manager-ram.html

Basically after hard gaming check that your Peak is not near your Total Physical RAM amount is how I read it.

 

[myocardia]

The reason everyone now has 4GB in their gaming machines is that >2GB is needed for a gaming machine. Why did you think we were doing it?😕 There are games out today that can and will use >2GB of RAM all by themselves, which is what Rebel44 seemed to be trying to tell you-- he just didn't know that you already have that chip in a board that requires DDR3. You might want to read this, BTW. It answers alot of the questions most people seem to have about ever needing more than 640KB of RAM.😉

 

[Yellowbeard]

Crysis on XP 32 bit was a LOT smoother for me with 4GB installed (3.2GB usable) than just 2GB. If you have the option, as cheap as RAM is go for 4GB even if you stay on XP 32 bit.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Ok, but MAAAN that CellShock looks pretty sweet! 😀

Ok, thanks and at the side bar, I did get my DDR3 1600 to run at the stated speed of 1600Mhz & 7.7.7.21 1T 1.9v; 1hr stable using OCCT RAM but oooOOOOWEEE, running 1800 at 777 would be tits!