2 gigs of RAM really worth it?

yanguangz

yanguangz

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I am using p4-530 (:oyeah, it's old)
550 psu with 1g ram and a 7900gs .
I am really tempted by a 2g ddr2 kit(2 x 1g) for less then £30.
Is 2 gigs of RAM really worth it?
what do you say?
 
what CPU do you have?

2 Gigs of RAM is DEFINITELY worth it. As long as your mobo can support the rated speed of the RAM, go for it. Let us know how it goes.
 
I have p4 530 which was the first generation that intel use lga 775 slot.
right now I have 2 x 512mb ddr2 533.
I plays cod2. need for speed. orange box while cod4 is on the way.
 
If your mobo supports the new intel chips drop a Intel Core 2 Duo E2140 in there aswell much better than a P4, and ofc get the ram cos its such a good price
 
Definately.

The new games need it (Crysis uses near 1.5gb, possibly more if you turn up the settings).
 
Get some decent 800Mhz+ RAM like the Geil (or, even better, Ballistix.) That way it will still serve you well if you decide to upgrade to C2D.
 
2GB has been needed since FEAR/CoD2 and a few other games of that era, obv I mean to MAX the game not run at low settings.

FEAR made me buy 2GB as 1GB was ate up along with the 1.5GB Page File.

I dont know how you can game well with the memory left over after Windows takes its chunk out of your 1GB esp the games have moved on more so than ones mentioned above.

XP unlike Vista does not let go of Memory when needed by another APP.
 
Bit late I s'pose but to answer the question you need to use the performance tab on the Windows Task Manager. If the memory usage is over your physical memory in your favourite applications then you will have memory being paged to the hard disk swap file and things will be slow. In this case a memory upgrade is the single cheapest best thing you can do. The results of eliminating paging from day to day use on your system can be stunning.
 
Agree with the others - 2gb is DEFINITELY worth it. I moved to 2gb after trying to play Battlefield 2 on 1gb :)

If you use Vista and play things like Crysis, 4Gb would be even better.
 
2gb is DEFINITELY worth it!!! My computer is flying now. Much faster than be4.
Thanx for all the helpful tips guys! 2GB all the way
 
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