more ram will help. Faster will help a little. But for me going from 2 to 4 gigs meant being able to play CoH on ultra dx10 vs high dx9.
haha im like an hour north of you
haha im like an hour north of you
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More RAM will only help if you're currently using all of your RAM. If you're not using all of your current RAM, adding more will benefit nothing.
Faster RAM will likely help a little, but the memory speed is rarely the cause of lower FPS, unless of course you have really slow RAM like DDR2 533 or DDR2 667 speeds.
With the price of memory these days, you can usually have both. 4GB of quality DDR2 800 - DDR2 1066 can be had for about $80 or less. Do most people NEED 4GB or more of memory, no. But many applications (and combinations of applications) are starting to utilize memory in excess of 2GB, especially if you're using Vista. So going with 4GB or more isn't a bad idea to keep your computer fast for years to come. However, go with DDR2 800 - DDR2 1066, anything beyond that doesn't give a good bang for the buck. And anything over 4GB of memory is hard to justify.
EDIT: Go Bucks!
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Faster RAM will likely help a little, but the memory speed is rarely the cause of lower FPS, unless of course you have really slow RAM like DDR2 533 or DDR2 667 speeds.
With the price of memory these days, you can usually have both. 4GB of quality DDR2 800 - DDR2 1066 can be had for about $80 or less. Do most people NEED 4GB or more of memory, no. But many applications (and combinations of applications) are starting to utilize memory in excess of 2GB, especially if you're using Vista. So going with 4GB or more isn't a bad idea to keep your computer fast for years to come. However, go with DDR2 800 - DDR2 1066, anything beyond that doesn't give a good bang for the buck. And anything over 4GB of memory is hard to justify.
EDIT: Go Bucks!
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You'll need a motherboard that can reach a reference clock high enough to reach DDR2 1066 speeds. I'm not familiar with your motherboard but I think it's fairly old if it's nForce 4xx series. That doesn't mean it's carp though, and you won't need a lot of headroom to reach 1066 speeds. For example, if you set the CPU multiplier to 12x and memory setting to DDR2 800, you can reach 1066 speeds by taking the reference clock from 200 to 267, giving a CPU speed of 3.2GHz and memory speed of DDR2 1066. 3.2GHz is pretty average for your CPU. It should also be pointed out that AMD X2's don't see much difference between 1066MHz 5-5-5-15-2T versus 800-900MHz and 4-4-4-12-2T timings. So you'll be fine even if your board is carp, you'll just run a lower speed but tighter timings.
Originally Posted by FaceCannon my mobo only supports 800mhz if i get 1066 ram can i oc up to that speed? |
You'll need a motherboard that can reach a reference clock high enough to reach DDR2 1066 speeds. I'm not familiar with your motherboard but I think it's fairly old if it's nForce 4xx series. That doesn't mean it's carp though, and you won't need a lot of headroom to reach 1066 speeds. For example, if you set the CPU multiplier to 12x and memory setting to DDR2 800, you can reach 1066 speeds by taking the reference clock from 200 to 267, giving a CPU speed of 3.2GHz and memory speed of DDR2 1066. 3.2GHz is pretty average for your CPU. It should also be pointed out that AMD X2's don't see much difference between 1066MHz 5-5-5-15-2T versus 800-900MHz and 4-4-4-12-2T timings. So you'll be fine even if your board is carp, you'll just run a lower speed but tighter timings.
well allot of benchmarks have proven that its about how much RAM you have, not really about speed [speed does help a bit] its just how much RAM you have
[so long as its DDR2]
3GB is the sweet spot, if you have Vista or XP + 512MB-1GB Graphics Card
32bit Software can Detect a MAX of 4GB of ram, this also includes your Graphics Card RAM , so if u have 4GB of ram, and a 1GB graphics card for e.g. you will only see 3GB of ram in 32bit Windows
and each program can only use a MAX of 1500MB of ram per program
and yes i know you have 64bit, so you can see all the ram
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id say get the extra 2GB otherwise your kinda wasting that 64bit Technology
[so long as its DDR2]
3GB is the sweet spot, if you have Vista or XP + 512MB-1GB Graphics Card
32bit Software can Detect a MAX of 4GB of ram, this also includes your Graphics Card RAM , so if u have 4GB of ram, and a 1GB graphics card for e.g. you will only see 3GB of ram in 32bit Windows
and each program can only use a MAX of 1500MB of ram per program
and yes i know you have 64bit, so you can see all the ram
id say get the extra 2GB otherwise your kinda wasting that 64bit Technology
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