2gb to 4gb?

[booyaka]

just plain silly if you ask me - 2gb is plenty at present

Will also probably play havoc with your overclocking ability and more pressure on the onboard mem controller

 

[ob1]

If it was me I would have put it towards an asus 805 rig with more power regulators then an electricity substation and/or sold the old ram for some 1000mhz stuff

 

[Cyber-Mav]

1000mhz stuff? does that even come is ddr1?

ohhh i looking forwards to me 4 giggery of ram. should see some more snappy response in windows.

 

[ob1]

lol you've ignored us, 4gb wont mean anything faster then 2gb to you. It might even be slower due to greater load on the memory controller.
Press ctrl alt del and see what the most memory you've used since you started the computer, its in the bottom left. commit charge - peak

Mine says 1205848 but then I have set the disk cache to take 1gig if it wants with a 476 meg ramdrive, neither of which made windows that much faster at all.



Heres 1ghz ram, its DDR2
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Patriot_Memory.html
More then 3x expensive but over 4x faster & quality > quanity

 

[MrM3]

Wish I had 4gig... well more than 2 gig anyway.

My PC max's out due to 2 application servers running locally, couple of java IDEs and Lotus Notes etc

 

[Cyber-Mav]

bah, the upgrade was cheapo anyways so it doesn't even sting a little bit even if i get a 0% performance increase. atleast it allows me to do some waving

 

[Cyber-Mav]

whoa 4 gigs of ram is very good. memtest passed fine and all my timings and overclock is unaffected. windows seems to be a bit snappier. glad i went for the 4 gigs afterall.

 

[kbc]

whoa 4 gigs of ram is very good. memtest passed fine and all my timings and overclock is unaffected. windows seems to be a bit snappier. glad i went for the 4 gigs afterall.

I'd like to see some benchmarks on a system with 2GB and 4GB. If you have Everest, there are a few memory benchmarks worth experimenting with.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

can do. but i guess they will be the same as my 2 gig setup since the timings were the same and the command rate was always 2t since this board is fussy about running 1t.

i doubt there is a benchmark that will show the advantage of 4gig over 2gig.

actually those database server tests that anandtech usually run will show a huge benefit to the extra memory.

 

[ob1]

3dmark06 might show some advantage.

The BF2 directory is only 2.2gig so you could put that all in memory now and see if you can load a map in 10 seconds

 

[Cyber-Mav]

yep will have to try one day. this windows install is not fully operational. since i put on x64 i need to get all my crap back on now.

 

[ob1]

I did wonder if you had any problems, so 32 bit was not an option then.

Theres a vista beta out, that takes 500 meg just to load unoptimised

 

[Minstadave]

3dmark06 might show some advantage.

The BF2 directory is only 2.2gig so you could put that all in memory now and see if you can load a map in 10 seconds

I highly doubt you'd see any boost in 3DMark 06, I've not heard of any game or demo breaking 2Gbs memory usage.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

true, also ram does not have a direct impact on frames per second. having more ram will not mean you magically get 10fps more in said games etc.

 

[ob1]

Having more main memory and using high textures in bf2 seemed to improve my fps, an illusion?

 

[Minstadave]

Having more main memory and using high textures in bf2 seemed to improve my fps, an illusion?

Its stopped you having to page to disk, which is what caused the slowdown. With 2Gb you don't page to disk at all, so with 4gb you'll see no benefit.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

well with 4gig i can be doing lots more in the background without lack of memory.

 

[AceCard]

LMFAO at this whole thread tbh!!!

 

[Cyber-Mav]

LMFAO at this whole thread tbh!!!

says the man with only 2gigs of ram

 

[welshtom]

says the man with only 2gigs of ram

but a 7900gtx