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Upgrading memory?

Postby Zaphod » Wed Dec 22, 2004 3:40 pm

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Re: Upgrading memory?

Postby eno » Thu Dec 23, 2004 3:45 am

Which site is it that you used?

If its Crucial then its accurate and their own brand memory is extremely reliable.

As far as I know in the case of memory .... the more expencive stuff is more reliable. As long as you match  the specs you gave then there shouldn't be any problems.
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Re: Upgrading memory?

Postby GunnerMan » Thu Dec 23, 2004 1:37 pm

Well I can help a bit..maybe ??? :P

Well Eno reliability is probably there for the more expencive stuff but scence most memory brands come with a lifetime warranty I think theres more to it :)

When you go to buy memory you should be most concerned about what speed it is PC-2100, PC-3200, DDR2, all this has a large effect in the prices.

Another thing you want to look at is the Latencey: Latencey is the time it takes for the memory to go through 1 clock cycle, you may see latencey numbers such as 2.5-3-3-6 some of the cheaper stuff may look like  4-4-4-12(also found in DDR2). So what do these numbers mean...
If you have Adobe Acrobat reader go here>http://www.corsairmicro.com/corsair/products/specs/Ram_Guy_CAS_Latency.pdf that will tell you everything you need to know about that.

So factors in it are speed, latencey, quality, reliability, and other odds and end such as advanced heat sinks etc.
Make shure your mobo supports the speed you want to buy.. and I recomend Corsair, Mushkin, Crucial, and Kingston as great memory makers...Hope that helped a bit :D
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Re: Upgrading memory?

Postby Zaphod » Thu Dec 23, 2004 5:00 pm

Thanks guys :)
Yes e-smurf, it was the crucial site I used,  and as you both recommend their simms I have just ordered a 512mb card for
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Re: Upgrading memory?

Postby Zaphod » Wed Dec 29, 2004 11:02 am

Ok.
So my new stick of RAM arrived today and has been installed. I now have just over 1GB of Ram.
I've noticed that Windows now seems "snappier" but I don't seem to be getting the improvement in frame rates I was hoping for. I know my video card is suspect and is the next thing on the list, but I was wondering if I need to increase my virtual memory now I have more RAM. It's currently set at 768mb?

Any idea's.

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Re: Upgrading memory?

Postby Saitek » Wed Dec 29, 2004 11:06 am

That's right - RAM won't improve frame rates. It'll be your card I think for that.
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Re: Upgrading memory?

Postby Gixer » Wed Dec 29, 2004 2:32 pm

Ram isn't a magic fix for FPS.  If you have 512 it will do the job.  Adding another 512 you may notice 1-2FPS increase but not much.  What more ram will do is make load times shorter and should make your sim run smoother, which is just as important as FPS.
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