Keybladist Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 First post, heh... Anyways I need to know if I should get two gigabytes of DDR ram, I have one gigabyte, but I don't exactly know how much 2 Gigs will cost me. Anyone have any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercifull Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 http://www.crucial.com Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frizoid Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 Hardly any games require 2 gigs currently, its a waste of money in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Necromagus Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 That depends. Certain graphics programmes can use the ram to greatly improve rendering speeds when working on large files. Just inverting the colours on an A3 .psd could take minutes if you don't have enough ram. My Tip.It Times Articles (10 and counting) || The Varrock Library Author Index projectDo you dare to dream? - Part 19 added. || The Hospital (WIP) - New story!Necromagus looks like a viking ... with glasses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy500fan Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 i bought two gigs (2 x 1024mb) off of newegg for $135 US. and it works perfectly good :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart_G Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 If youve already got 1GB in your system, you just need to find another 1GB stick that matches the specifications of the other one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_k0m0d0_ Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 It really depends on what you pretending to do, because I think 2Gb is awsome, but depends... ~komodo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runesmithie Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 Maybe it's just me, but I've heard that 2gb can be worse than 1 o.O I just posted something! ^_^ to the terrorist...er... kirbybeam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_k0m0d0_ Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 Maybe it's just me, but I've heard that 2gb can be worse than 1 o.O How? :shock: ~komodo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skelm Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 Personally I would look at purchasing a faster harddrive before getting two gigs of ram... If you get more ram then your computer will just bottleneck on the HDD or the CPU.. You won't even get any use out of the extra ram unless an application is specifically written to write directly to ram (the only products that do this are autodesk). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Militaris Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 Maybe it's just me, but I've heard that 2gb can be worse than 1 o.O How? :shock: ~komodo It is mostly yo do with the inability of dual channels when you are using more then 2 sticks of ram... The following review shows it. The 4x512mb memory often gives worst performance then the 2x512mb... http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/memory ... b-ram.html There are also cases when 1GBx2 sticks are slower then 512mx2b, in non memory intensive tasks the 512mb would be slightly faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_k0m0d0_ Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 Maybe it's just me, but I've heard that 2gb can be worse than 1 o.O How? :shock: ~komodo It is mostly yo do with the inability of dual channels when you are using more then 2 sticks of ram... The following review shows it. The 4x512mb memory often gives worst performance then the 2x512mb... http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/memory ... b-ram.html There are also cases when 1GBx2 sticks are slower then 512mx2b, in non memory intensive tasks the 512mb would be slightly faster. So for 2Gigs of RAM better getting 4x512Mb! Oh well.... :P ~komodo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdogg33 Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 the bottom line is don't get 2 gigs unless you are working on some heavy duty video/audio rendering or advanced CAD or Graphics Design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nexus_Hishima Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 2 x 1gb is better than 4 x 512mb because it takes up less slots!! space saver! on the topic, only get 2gb of RAM if you have to, otherwise, bit of a waste. 80+ combat?join The Legacy today!http://z3.invisionfree.com/TL___The_Leg ... hp?act=idx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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