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Memory vs Hard Drive (need to make a choice)
Dookz
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I plan on getting a new system and I have to choose one configuration over the other. So I need help getting the most out of performance.
Option 1: 4k memory (800mhz), Raid 0 7200RPM Hard drive **I am aware I will only get 3-3.5k of memory.
Option 2: 3k memory (667mhz), Raid 0 10k RPM Hard drive
I will use this system mainly to play graphic-intensive online multiplayer games. FPS, strategy, and instanced/persistent mmorpgs. and dx10 games coming out later this year and next year.
Playing now: Cities: Skyline / Ori and the Blind Forest / Banished
Comments
Though the options you posted makes no sense really, I'd say go with option 1.
Interestingly, I would go for option 2. I love fast hard drives. And currently between 3 and 4 Gb of ram is only noticable by people doing really intensive calculation sort of stuff (not games) and down the road, you can aways bump it up.
My policies are:
RAM: Quantity over quality,
HARDRIVE: Quality over quantity.
Forget raid 0 it really doesnt provide significant desktop performance gains. You can read about that here,and here.
Also, unless you have a 64 bit OS... your OS cannot use more than about 3GB of ram. You can read about that here.