Worth Upgrading Memory ?

conuk · 22 May 2006 at 23:55

As title ... or wait ?

My present system :

Asus K8v SE mobo (socket 754)
Amd Athlon 64 3400
1 gig 3200 memory....

if I stuck another gig of ram in there... would this be able to go into my next upgrade ?

Im gonna wait and see what Conroe is like... or it will be a Athlon x2 or similar.....

Or should I just hold out for a while....

Minstadave · 23 May 2006 at 00:01

conuk said:
As title ... or wait ?

My present system :

Asus K8v SE mobo (socket 754)
Amd Athlon 64 3400
1 gig 3200 memory....

if I stuck another gig of ram in there... would this be able to go into my next upgrade ?

Im gonna wait and see what Conroe is like... or it will be a Athlon x2 or similar.....

Or should I just hold out for a while....

Whats your main use of the system and whats your GFX card?

conuk · 23 May 2006 at 00:09

the odd games... Lock On ... Flight Sims... Car sims Rfactor ... GTr and hopefully GTR 2

....

bit of 3d Max / grpahics etc... bit of everything really

card is BFG 6800 GT OC (runnning like a ultra

...)

Minstadave · 23 May 2006 at 00:34

To find your own memory usage, run your usual games and apps for a bit then when you're done, exit back to windows, hit CTRL+ALT+DEL goto to performance and check the peak value in the commit charge box.

If the peak value is over 1046960 ish, then you're using up your gig of RAM and paging. Paging is when you're having to write to disk instead of RAM and ideally you want to avoid this as its horribly slow.

conuk · 23 May 2006 at 00:41

cheers dave... but will this `older` speed ram work in a newer system... im not that into overclocking... a little but nothing major... i know the memory is cheap for a gig ... but would hold back if it wont go in a newer system.

Minstadave · 23 May 2006 at 00:45

conuk said:
cheers dave... but will this `older` speed ram work in a newer system... im not that into overclocking... a little but nothing major... i know the memory is cheap for a gig ... but would hold back if it wont go in a newer system.

Sorry completely missed that bit

Both Conroe and the new AMD platform AM2 require DDR2 memory, so buying DDR will effectively be a dead end. Having said that you may well want to upgrade to a cheap S939 system in future as there'll be plenty around, and the DDR RAM will suit that fine

conuk · 23 May 2006 at 00:55

spot on - thats what I wanted to hear. will give it a miss then... will just wait- no point really going 939 I suppose.. will end up at a dead end like now (AGP and 754...)

Thanks.