RAM memory question

[hewhohasissues]

The more RAM, the smoother and better games will play?

 

[Simon]

yes to a certain extent i think depending on ur system up to 1Gb is plenty. most fairly hard core gamers hav usally hav 512mb-1Gb
what are ur system specs?

 

[waynejkruse10]

256-512 gives you a large performance increase
512-1024 gives you a smaller performance increase
1024-2048 gives no performance increase (some apps decrease performance)

 

[demank]

So it means that 512 kb is best performance.., isn't it?

 

[Catbert]

What hes saying is if you go from 256 to 512 you will see a decent performace increase.

From 512 - 1Gb, the increase will not be so noticable.

Over 1Gb and you just wasting money.

Between 512 & 1Gb will give best performance.

 

[Trifid]

depending on the rest of your system though....

as it would be pointless having 1gb of ram with a 5200. But 512 gave me choppy performance in halflife 2, with my 6800.

 

[Osiris]

I've seen a significant performace gain when upgrading from 512mb to 1.5gb. Ripping and burning dvds takes no time now, I can do mulitple tasks while running a cpu intensive app so I would recommend going as high as you can, soon, I will be at 4gb....

 

[waynejkruse10]

wtf, 4gb of ram, geez, does windows even support that?

 

[hewhohasissues]

My specs are:

Pentium 4 with HT: 3.00GHz
512MB
111GB hard drive

If I upgraded to 1GB RAM, will there be a noticable difference in gaming and multi tasking? Games like Halo get choppy on singleplayer and my computer generally slows hella down with alot of programmes working.

 

[uzi9mm]

Ok the more ram the better the performance. Yes you will see a huge performance increase if you have 2gb. you can turn off the page file on your computer. That will give you a massive jump in performance. Also if you can support 4 gb, you can look into using a RAMDISK setup.

MORE RAM = MORE PERFORMANCE