4gb of ram?

[MaximusNukeage]

groovy

 

[ShoobieRat]

it just means that something cant keep up with the other components.

...definition of a bottleneck. Especially in this situation.

 

[dhw200]

Ive got 2 gigs, and i havent had any trouble. Helps out a lot in games like BF2 and FEAR (demo, naturally)

 

[MaximusNukeage]

can windows support the 4gb. i mean is the motherboard the limiting factor. because this board http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136157 can hadle 4 gb. so will putting that much ram in that board with win xp work?

 

[jowens]

My mb handles the 4 GB. Windows XP is the limiting factor. However my computer runs sweet with the 4 GB. I score about 16,500 on the 3D Benchmark test. I run every game maxed and have no slow down. I agree that the 4 GB was over kill. If I could do it again I would get only 2 GB. However at the time I was designing the computer on this web site nobody informed that 4 GB was a problem.

 

[aaronkupen]

I doubt you get any performance boosting between 4 and 2 gigs. Theres no reason to go above 2 gigs nowadays, and Windows XP recognizes up to 4, but the 64 bit edition of XP goes up to 8.

 

[gaara]

I score about 16,500 on the 3D Benchmark test.

Which 3Dmark version...if that's a '03 score your RAM is indeed causing a problem since you should be getting around 19K with your current setup

 

[HAVOC]

4 GIG's of RAM in a supporting system is actually very good if you put the RAM to the right use.

USE 2GIG as your System Ram... Then Mount the other 2 GIGS of RAM as a Drive. Use that drive for your paging file. There is a very nice performance boost. Current RAM modules are a hell of a lot faster then HDD's. Windows loves to use the swap file... Why not incease that speed???

Other then that, 4 GIG's is not needed.

 

[MaximusNukeage]

i dont understand. ram drive???

 

[jowens]

How would I set my other 2 GB as a paging file? Might as well put the damn memory to use. I was thinking of trying to sell it to get some of my $ back if it is really useless and if it is slowing my system down.