March 30, 200620 yr 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?
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March 30, 200620 yr 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.
March 30, 200620 yr i bought two gigs (2 x 1024mb) off of newegg for $135 US. and it works perfectly good :D
March 30, 200620 yr If youve already got 1GB in your system, you just need to find another 1GB stick that matches the specifications of the other one.
March 30, 200620 yr It really depends on what you pretending to do, because I think 2Gb is awsome, but depends... ~komodo
March 31, 200620 yr 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.
March 31, 200620 yr Maybe it's just me, but I've heard that 2gb can be worse than 1 o.O How? :shock: ~komodo
March 31, 200620 yr 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).
March 31, 200620 yr 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.
March 31, 200620 yr 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
April 2, 200620 yr 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.
April 7, 200620 yr 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
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