Ram Increase? Opinions

SICMF · Post by **SICMF** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 8:32 am

Just was wondering what do you think would benefit more from going to 2gb of Corsair XMS 3500 from 1gb? I know 1gb is plenty but thats not what im asking. Over the past 6 months I have been building my rig be a monster, It's my hobby. And last nite i ordered 2 more 512mb sticks to bump my ram to 2gb. I know 1gb more will do something just wondering if any of you experts know what would benefit the most from all the Ram? Thanks

mccoffee · Post by **mccoffee** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 1:36 pm

i hear ya about toying around with ram my board can support one gig I've been trying to make it work it didn't I need to oder two of the same sticks. ram wise faster startup applicatoins faster maybe an imporvemnet on the net depends on who u ask on that. have fun

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 1:39 pm

I highly doubt it'll make any appreciable impact. I say upgrade your monitor even beyond the 191T the next time you get the hardware itch, man!

SICMF · Post by **SICMF** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 3:28 pm

Originally posted by Burke
I highly doubt it'll make any appreciable impact. I say upgrade your monitor even beyond the 191T the next time you get the hardware itch, man!

Yeah, I'm a few steps away from ordering a 20in HDTV Plasma Screen with VGA. I can one for around 2100.00. Thats not much more than a bigger LCD. I just am tring to find the best one. If you find anything let me know.

mccoffee · Post by **mccoffee** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 3:53 pm

Over the past 6 months I have been building my rig be a monster, It's my hobby it's better then drugs and hookers

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 3:54 pm

Depends on what you're working with..for files.

If you do some seriously huge and professional video editing...then yes. Today I was working at a precision castings plant that makes turbines and parts for jet engines....their layout machines running CAD and Unigraphics softare can work with files as large as 400 - 500 megs or more...and those can use over a gig of RAM.

But gaming....I haven't seen any that will push past 600 megs....only a small handful of the latest games exceed 500 megs of usage.

Run task manager and find out if your RAM usage ever exceeds 1gig....easy to answer yourself.

SICMF · Post by **SICMF** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 3:59 pm

Originally posted by mccoffee
Over the past 6 months I have been building my rig be a monster, It's my hobby it's better then drugs and hookers

Hey, I didn't say that.

mccoffee · Post by **mccoffee** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 4:02 pm

i'm just saying ur hobbies are safer then most

SICMF · Post by **SICMF** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 4:04 pm

Originally posted by mccoffee
i'm just saying ur hobbies are safer then most

I was just kidding

Not sure if its a better hobby. LOL

mccoffee · Post by **mccoffee** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 4:08 pm

first 100 %of ur capps now 2gigs of ram u greedy greedy man

fish59 · Post by **fish59** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 5:34 pm

There is a point of diminishing return.The more you add the more you have to relax the timings.
So you can have lots of slow RAM or just the right amount of fast RAM

Any mem that isn't ever being utilized is a waste and slowing down the mem you use,unless you just want bragging rights.

I got 2 GIGS of RAM!

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 7:54 pm

When I got to a gig of ram I disabled my swap file in WinXP. My pc was much more responsive, no need to hit the hard drive. I've heard that photoshop won't run without a swap file, but I don't do any photowork, so I was good to go. Games seem to load a lot faster too.

HongKongPolice · Post by **HongKongPolice** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 12:42 am

Some games require a swap file as well, if only you could create a ramdrive via the BIOS, and have windows use the ramdrive as a swapfile drive.

I know there are some PCI ramdrive devices out there where you put seperate SDRAM sticks into the PCI card, but the PCI bus is limited to around 130MB/s, and has to be shared with other devices, so that severly cuts the performance.