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Tom's Hardware > Forum > Games General > PC Gaming > Memory issue... (kinda)

Memory issue... (kinda)

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I have a new PC (Q6600 radeon 4870), till now I had 4GB of RAM but one of them was corrupt so now I have only 2GB till I can send them (it's holiday now here...) will I need to lower the graphics in games if I have less memory? I've got vista so I don't know how it's gonna affect my games..... (especially crysis, In finally got out of the alien mountain yesterday :P).

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Basically some games yes, other games no. You'll know when the game randomly slows down for no apparent reason.

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Yes and no, suck it and see really. I've got 2Gb in my rig, running Vista, E8400 and Radeon 4850. Crysis runs nice at 1440x900 on high settings.

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