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"webfactor" <webfactor@post.tdcadsl.dk> wrote in message
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> David Efflandt wrote:
>> On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 15:46:21 GMT, caesar <caesar@charter.net> wrote:
>>
>>>I have p4 3.2 with 512 mem and a radeon x600 pro . Question would I see
>>>much of a diff going to 1 gig in memory?
>>
>>
>> Probably not much difference in actual game play (unless the game
>> requires it), but with some, like Doom3 you can enable an image cache,
>> and larger disk cache in RAM will reload levels quicker.
> Deffenetly yes sorry my spelling,from Denmark(Europe)
> While Your at it,make it 2G to start with to take advantage of
> dual memory now I saw what you CPU were,got one 3.2 with(only)
> 370 Mhz HyperX ram 2G and it´s a dream having it.(Had it)
> Bought meself an AMD Athlon 64 3400+ were 3 of the blocks are used
> And it´s 10 times more powerfull than an (yes sorry I must say so)32 Bit
> My next computer will be an AMD FX 55~ with 4G onboard(Don't forget RAID
> and make it S-ATA,a PCI controller if neaded)
> You'd be surprised
> www.webfactor.dk
>
More memory gives a diminishing return, that is each time you double your
memory the effect is less dramatic, up to the point where I suspect if you
went from 1GB to 2GB you would notice almost no difference, unless you are
using some specific tasks that require huge amounts of memory.
I went from 512MB to 1GB, and did notice a slight improvement in smoothness,
but nothing major.
I would consider myself an average user, WinXP SP2, 1GB DDR 400 SDRAM (Dual
Data Channel enabled), AMD 2500+, Abit NF7-s V2 motherboard, ATI Radeon 9800
Pro 128MB.
I did run some benchmarks and IIRC there was virtually no difference in
performance.
YMMV as they say.