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Should I spend the money on more RAM?

AsiakAsiak Member Posts: 118
in Hardware

I have :

Processor : AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Dual-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology

Graphics Card : nVidia GeForce 8800GT 512MB 16X PCI Express

And 2 GB of RAM

And windows vista 32 bit.

I desire to play both Crysis and AoC.   I meet the recomended system requirments for both but was wondering how good my current setup would run them.  And if I should get another 1 or 2 GB of RAM.

 

"What is it that the gamers want from these games and why is it not given to them? We were playing these games ourselves, that's why we know it was not being done. So we moved in the opposite direction. We thought about what the users wanted, what we wanted, and why it wasn't happening and how it could happen." - Tasos Flambouras

Comments

  • ethviaethvia Member UncommonPosts: 8

    unless you're running the 64bit version of Vista (or XP) getting 2 more gig's of RAM won't help you anymore than getting 1 gig.  So....if it's cheaper to get 2 512meg chips then do that and go to 3 gig's of RAM, if  it's cheaper to get 2 1gig chips then get that and go to 4gigs of RAM. 

     

    Just keep in mind that a 32bit OS cannot address more than 4gig's and that includes your video card.  So if you had 4gig's you would only ever see 3.5gig's.

     

    Whatever you get, just make sure you fill all the open slots for the RAM to take advantage of the speed increase you get with DDR.

     

    HTH

  • AsiakAsiak Member Posts: 118

    Well thank you for I was wondering which would better 1 two gig stick, or 2 one gig sticks.  But so your saying no getting more RAM really won't help me? 

    But then with my current setup do you think I will be able to run Crysis and AoC smoothly?

    "What is it that the gamers want from these games and why is it not given to them? We were playing these games ourselves, that's why we know it was not being done. So we moved in the opposite direction. We thought about what the users wanted, what we wanted, and why it wasn't happening and how it could happen." - Tasos Flambouras

  • ethviaethvia Member UncommonPosts: 8

    Just my opinion, but if you have 4 memory slots (2 open) I would get 2 512 sticks.   I purchased 4 1gig sticks before I found this out...it doesn't do any harm, but is a bit of a waste of money...that's all.

     

    Either way, I would increase to at least 3 gig's of RAM.  Your processor and your video card are excellent already.

     

     

    edit-->   if you have 4 slots fill them all.  2 of them will have 1 gig sticks and the other two would have 512 sticks.  If you only have 2 slots then you could either do 2 2gig sticks or 1 2gig stick and 1 1gig stick.  (pretty sure most motherboards that are decent have 4 slots)

     

  • AznmaskAznmask Member Posts: 178

    DDR2 is cheap...

     

    i bought 2GB DDR2 Corsair for $30 after rebate.. so go check out newegg..

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