Ram upgrade question...

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In short I hav a Asus board PQ5-E, with 4 gig of ram... thats 2x2 sticks total of 4 gig.... I want to add some more... Can I just buy 1 stick of say 6 gig and put it in another slot so that I would hav 2x2x6 total of 10 gig?

I thought it might help with Cliffs of Dover.... :rolleyes:

any help please...
 
You would be better off running 2 more sticks of 2GB - dual channel - 8GB total. This would still be more memory than you would ever need for general gaming (plus - i've never seen a single strip of 6GB DDR2 memeory and you can only install 4GB maximum strip in any one slot on the P5Q-E.).

I don't know the game you're talking about but i suspect that a gfx card or CPU upgrade would be more beneficial?

What's the rest of your spec?
 
Thnx for the reply...

I have just bought a Q9650 form the members market
.. so full spec is

Asus PQ5-e
Q9650
OCZ gold 4 gig
XFX 4980
 
That's a tidy spec you have and prime for clocking...

Just found the game spec:

•PROCESSOR: Pentium® Dual-Core 2.0GHz or Athlon™ X2 3800+ (Intel Core i5 2.66GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 2.6GHz recommended)
•RAM: 2GB (4GB recommended)
•VIDEO CARD: DirectX® 9.0c compliant, 512Mb Video Card (1GB DirectX® 10 recommended) - See supported List*

Personally i would clock the CPU and gfx card - as this would have more of an impact than extra memory.

You could probably get 3.6+ out of your CPU and that combined with a clock on your gfx should give you a tidy boost.

EDIT: If you haven't got a decent third party CPU cooler - you could be better of spending your money on one of those and getting the best possible clock out of the Q9650 (i'm of course assuming it's not clocked already...)
 
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thnx again... I have heard that some of the Big I7 guys are havin probs with this game.. Heard there is a patch due to help the games performance... Hope it works... I will see how the game runs after the patch before I decide to OC or to go with some sort of upgrade...
 
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I have heard that some of the Big I7 guys are havin probs with this game.. Heard there is a patch due to help the games performance...
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It probably is due to crappy code - but the recommended CPU spec is substantial but your Q9650 clocked should be more than man enough for the job.

Good luck with it.
 
Heard I would be wasting time with the extra ram any way, I be leave the game is only 32 bit, and from what I have been told the game will only use 3 gig... wheather this is correct or not... I will wait till I drop the new core in sometime over the Bank Holiday week end...

thnx Plec...
 
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