how much ram should i get?

if you run XP dont bother going over 3gig, it wont recognise it, if you use vista however, 4 gig will give you a noticeable improvement, game loading times will be quicker etc :)
 
nah not really, but it will make games like BF2/2142 and a few others much less stuttery.

But in future (supcom aswell) will definatly need to extra so go for it.

Just got 4gb of geil myself :)
 
Chimerical said:
If you only have 3GB, it won't run in dual channel mode btw.
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tomshardware did some testing and it showed that due to the increase cache size on cpus, dual channel mode has much less benifit then when cpus had much less cache. So if you have the option to running it in dual channel is good, but if you cant, it wont realy be a noticible difference at all.
 
NigeyUK said:
if you run XP dont bother going over 3gig, it wont recognise it, if you use vista however, 4 gig will give you a noticeable improvement, game loading times will be quicker etc :)
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The above statement is completely untrue by the way, i believe it should read something more along the lines of:

If you have a 32 bit os, it wont recognise all 4gig, if you have a 64bit os, then it will. Certain games will benefit, others not so.
 
llwayneio said:
how much difference in games will 4 gig give?
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Hey llwayneio, if you are using a 64-bit operating system then you will be able to utilise 4GB of memory. If you are looking at purchasing a 64-bit Operating System then I would highly recommend Windows Vista.

The support for Windows Vista is now excellent and the majority of the hardware and software out their now work absolutely fine under Windows Vista. However please take into account that Windows Vista 64-bit cannot run 16-bit coded applications and also some decidedly 32-bit applications actually have an inclusion of 16-bit code in the installers. However that's very far and few between and really isn't something you need to worry about unless you specifically know of anything that you use that is 16-bit encoded in any way.

There are a few different versions of Windows Vista that you can buy and you may be slightly confused as in which one to purchase. Here is a great graph that compares all of the editions of Windows Vista with one another. The two you are most likely looking at are Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate. I have used both and in my opinion Vista Ultimate is not worth the extra £50 over Home Premium.

Now regarding the performance increase. In the Windows environment, especially in Windows Vista because of the way it utilises memory (This is a good thing :p), you should notice a performance increase in application loading times and general usage around the desktop. Now in games, this may not be so apparent. In the vast majority of games currently out their, there is a good chance that adding the extra 2GB of memory to your system will have very little affect on the performance in games. Obviously this is not to say that you won’t notice any such increase but try and not get your hopes up to much because you think you're going to see a huge performance increase.

Having said all of that though, memory is so cheap at the moment, if you would like the extra 2GB of memory, it certainly won’t do your system any harm :)
 
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yeh cheers firewizard that was really helpful and i have got the 4 gigs now :)i liked your point of "why not?" :) so this is what i ordered last night




i am hoping it perfoms well, i want it to last a year or so. i will have money to upgrade it in january but i do not really want to have to
 
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