Faster CPU or more Mem

pegasus1 · 18 May 2006 at 09:02

Both the same price, dont take later upgrades or OCing into the equation.
Pentium M1.83 with 2 gig Ram OR
Pentium M2.0 with 1 gig Ram.
Matched with a 7800GTX Go.
Mainly used for COD2 but also RTW.
Cheers

earlyflash · 18 May 2006 at 09:14

M2.0, since you can always upgrade the RAM later.

pegasus1 · 18 May 2006 at 09:39

Sorry, should have made it a little clearer.
M2.0 and 1 gig for the same money as M1.83 with 2 gig.
As above,no overclocking or later upgrading needs to enter the equation.

Mr Mister · 18 May 2006 at 10:07

1.83 with 2gb ram

The $6m Dan · 18 May 2006 at 10:22

I'd go with the 2 gig as well. 166MHz doesn't seem like much of an upgrade to me.

earlyflash · 18 May 2006 at 10:28

pegasus1 said:
Sorry, should have made it a little clearer.
M2.0 and 1 gig for the same money as M1.83 with 2 gig.
As above,no overclocking or later upgrading needs to enter the equation.

No, you were quite clear.

RAM is a lot easier to upgrade in the future if you want to than the CPU.

The 2.0 is still the better bet, imo. 2GB won't help you a lot in the majority of cases, the 2.0 will marginally improve everything.

pegasus1 · 18 May 2006 at 12:08

As i said, later upgrades dont come into the equation.
Its for a mate and as ive only ever had AMD i wasnt sure if the CPU speed made a massive difference on this chip.
Ive run my 3700sd at 2.65 with 1 gig (just to see the difference) and the impact on performance in FEAR/LOMAC/IL2/RTW was far far greater than when i dropped my CPU speed to 2.5 with 2 Gig.
Cheers for the help though.

earlyflash · 18 May 2006 at 13:21

pegasus1 said:
As i said, later upgrades dont come into the equation.

I don't quite understand that, why not? Surely its' better to have a longer-term solution that a short-sighted one, no matter who it's for?

Mikey1280 · 18 May 2006 at 13:57

Most likely its for a laptop which are difficult to upgrade.

Ender · 18 May 2006 at 14:11

i would take the 2gb ram version, it would give greater performance in games.

Lanz · 18 May 2006 at 14:25

2GB ram = better.

Jimbo Mahoney · 18 May 2006 at 15:32

Depends on the game.

FEAR and BF2 = 2GB 4tw

Doom 3, FarCry, both on medium details = faster CPU + 1GB 4tw

But I suppose, overall, take the 2GB option. I ran Doom 3 on Ultra settings and my free RAM dropped to ~500MB (2GB total). Same with FEAR.

ACESHIGH · 18 May 2006 at 15:38

i would go with the 2gig ram option too.

ErNciLator · 18 May 2006 at 19:14

i was tempted to say 1gig to go against but in all honesty, the 2 gig version for the win

earlyflash · 18 May 2006 at 20:06

Mikey1280 said:
Most likely its for a laptop which are difficult to upgrade.

Is that really true any more? Every laptop I've ever owned has the ability for users to add more RAM, relatively easily.

Mikey1280 · 18 May 2006 at 20:17

Well there not as easy to upgrade as pcs but going from 1gb to 2gb may be expensive, as you would have to sell the current two 512mb sticks and then buy two 1gb kits, its unlikely that the board has 4 slots so its not as easy as just adding another 1gb