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Im thinking of chucking another gig of Ram into my machine, to make just over 2 gig. Would it make much difference ie: smoother play or something?
What about make of Ram?…is there any difference between cheap/expensive makes?
I,ve seen this on fleabay:
Worth a go at just under 40 notes?…or save up for a better make? ( bearing in mind i dont earn mega bucks ๐ )
I dont know much, but apparently you should go for the same type of Ram that you already have.
My knowledge stops there
@=XDC=MADMAX wrote:
BF2142 should run fine on 1gb, but ive got 3gb just as a safety measure. ๐
Which cannot all be seen by 32 bit OS, sigh, and Max is supposed to be a Techie.
There is a big diff in performance in BF between 1 gb and 2gb of RAM
@=XDC=OldPhart wrote:
@=XDC=MADMAX wrote:
BF2142 should run fine on 1gb, but ive got 3gb just as a safety measure. ๐
Which cannot all be seen by 32 bit OS, sigh, and Max is supposed to be a Techie.
There is a big diff in performance in BF between 1 gb and 2gb of RAM
Maximum supported RAM (32-bit version Windows Ultimate) 4GB
You certainly will noticed a difference between 1 and 2Gb – loading times for one thing are much quicker. I think BF 2 was one of the first games to genuinely use 2Gb of RAM. But its also very unforgiving of shitty ram modules and a dodgy chip will cause you all sorts of fun (CTDs etc). Thats why I’d be wary about buying anything off ebay. You want to be able to send it back if its not 100% stable.
And turky speaks the truth – you are much better off avoiding mixing RAM modules. It would make better sense to buy two at the same time (if you can afford it) from somewhere like Overclockers.
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Hard drives also make a nice difference – I hunted downan IBM Ultrastar 36Z15 for my last gaming rig; it wasn’t cheap, it’s SCSi and it was damned noisy but it did also WTFPWN… but considering it’s the fastest performing hard drive in the world (apart from RAM disks or these solid state disks which cost รฦรโรยขรขโยฌร ยกรฦรขโฌลกรโรยฃ10k each obviously…) you really can tell the difference. RAM is nice, but you also need speed to chuck things at good time into it. That means Nioce RPM, cache and seek times – it’s no good having an assload of RAM and a 5400rpm drive because you may not really notice the difference.
@Wipers wrote:
You certainly will noticed a difference between 1 and 2Gb – loading times for one thing are much quicker. I think BF 2 was one of the first games to genuinely use 2Gb of RAM. But its also very unforgiving of shitty ram modules and a dodgy chip will cause you all sorts of fun (CTDs etc). Thats why I’d be wary about buying anything off ebay. You want to be able to send it back if its not 100% stable.
And turky speaks the truth – you are much better off avoiding mixing RAM modules. It would make better sense to buy two at the same time (if you can afford it) from somewhere like Overclockers.
Advice taken, and i,ve ordered these:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-092-CR&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=481 ๐
Oh, i do love my flexible friend! ๐
The 32-bit editions of Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise and Ultimate, all support a maximum of 4 GB of RAM. The real variations come when we start looking at the 64-vit versions. On a system running x64 Vista Home Basic, you can add as much as 8 GB of RAM. x64 Vista Home Premium supports as far as 16 GB of RAM.
However, with Windows Vista, there is a clear distinction between the maximum supported physical memory and the virtual addresses that the operating system will use. The x86 editions of Vista will not deliver full support for all the RAM installed in the case that this amounts to 4GB.
Also don’t forget your Graphics card RAM counts towards the total 4gb the OS will support… as my friend found out when he splashed out on 2x 768mb 8800GTX’s and 4Gb of DDR2… Windows x86 only saw 1.5gb of VRAM and 2.5Gb of DDR2… After installing x64 Vista/XP he has had no problems since… apart from sucking at every game he plays ๐
I used to be able to cap 2 flags in BF2 with my 2 gig of ram before most of the other peeps had loaded up ๐
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