1Gb Vs 2Gb Memory - Part 2

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I know this question has been asked about a million times but none seem to fit my cryteria...

as follows....

System Specs:

AMD Athlon X2 3600+ (Full DDR 800 Support)
1Gb Aeneon DDR 800 Memory ( 2 x 512Mb DDR 800 Dual Channel)
Asus M2V Motherboard (Boards has 4 x DDR 800 Slots)
Gainward 7600GT 256Mb PCIex
etc.

I use the system for the following:
Internet
General Office Use
Movies and multimedia

Games (Titan Quest, C&C Tiberium Wars, Carbon, Supreme Commander, Oblivion etc.)

Would I benefit adding another 2 x 512 DDR 800 (as mentioned above) memory giving me a total of 2Gb DDR 800 running in Dual Channel

Thanks in advance
 
DarKWateR said:
I know this question has been asked about a million times but none seem to fit my cryteria...

as follows....

System Specs:

AMD Athlon X2 3600+ (Full DDR 800 Support)
1Gb Aeneon DDR 800 Memory ( 2 x 512Mb DDR 800 Dual Channel)
Asus M2V Motherboard (Boards has 4 x DDR 800 Slots)
Gainward 7600GT 256Mb PCIex
etc.

I use the system for the following:
Internet
General Office Use
Movies and multimedia

Games (Titan Quest, C&C Tiberium Wars, Carbon, Supreme Commander, Oblivion etc.)

Would I benefit adding another 2 x 512 DDR 800 (as mentioned above) memory giving me a total of 2Gb DDR 800 running in Dual Channel

Thanks in advance
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OS?
 
Ok ...I wil benefit...the question is how much more...and will it help games etc?
 
there will be a definite incremental gain, just remember to set your virtual memory settings properly. The question IS whether the incremental gain is worth the money spent?

Consider putting twin Serial ATA drives in for a further incremental gain.
 
The improvement my machine gained when I replaced my 1GB generic RAM with 2GB Corsair gaming memory was amazing!

Even every-day tasks, such as Word, are performed just so much quicker.
 
Yep, definitely worth it. I recently upgraded from 1GB to 2GB on the same system (My same system, no pther parts changed) and it helped a lot. Great for Oblivion :D

It would also help more if you upgrade to Vista.
 
Good to know....I also have alot of backgroud applications..so 2gb is probably the way to go
 
The extra ram will enable you to increase things like texture quality settings in newer games, but remember, that's going to put alot of pressure on your GPU.

Multitasking + RAM = Good Thing (TM)
 
Currently my XP is really fast...but I would like to see what double the memory does
 
You know the reason why I actually started this topic is because I had a look at all the background apps I run...and these are things I use...

but common...

Skype, MSN Live, Java, AVG, Defender, and the list goes on..

If I peek in task manager I can see the apps eating memory...actually at some point I saw Skype chowing 42Mb's of it...jeez..what's left for the games?
 
Outlook 2007 is currently using 107MB of RAM, Internet Explorer is using 32MB, Explorer.exe is using 32MB as well and one of the generic processes (svchost.exe) is using 29MB. Those are the big processes, I haven't even mentioned the 10-29MB ones.

I'm glad I have 2GB of memory! :D
 
I have just rebooted and Outlook 2007, MSN, AV and whatever else is needed to run Vista Business isusing 875MB ram. Luckily I have 2GB and a 2.16GHZ Core2Duo proc
 
I heard recently " run two 80GB SATA drives in RAID 0 - this will seriously speed up startup and shutdown and other things as well".

How do I set these up in RAID? Do they need to be SATA or will IDE do? Any help...
 
Running a full Ubuntu system, with the Beryl interface, mplayer and firefox with 30 tabs open. 501 free of 1002 addressable memory. I think more than 1G is overkill, rather buy a better or 2nd graphics card. A 2nd disk, with a raid setup will allow you to load things in to your ram faster, games will still only load as fast as your disk drives can keep up. I run 2x80G Linux software raid, I read/write at 100mb/s
 
edc said:
Running a full Ubuntu system, with the Beryl interface, mplayer and firefox with 30 tabs open. 501 free of 1002 addressable memory. I think more than 1G is overkill, rather buy a better or 2nd graphics card. A 2nd disk, with a raid setup will allow you to load things in to your ram faster, games will still only load as fast as your disk drives can keep up. I run 2x80G Linux software raid, I read/write at 100mb/s
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How do I set these drives up in RAID 0? Must they both be the same size? And must they be relatively empty or does that not matter?
 
AFAIk must to 2 identical drives, needs both drives to be empty because they are formatted in the RAID array before installing Windows.

You need a floppy disk drive to :/
 
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