GTX285 SLI - 2GB or 1GB each card?

I know I've made some threads the past days, but there's just so many questions that pop when you're looking at new hardware!

I hear the RAM is a lot slower on the 2GB versions, and I'm not sure if a total of 4GB of RAM is needed at all?

The money difference isn't significant, so it shouldn't be a ruling factor. The total difference is 55$ for 2 cards with 2GB contra 2 cards with 1GB.

I'll be playing at 1920*1080, preferably as high details as possible, and perhaps some very heavy loaded games such as big MMO's (crowded places), or just the good ol' high detailed FPS

What say yee?

Thanks in advance,

Ottosen

In SLi you would only use 1GB or 2GB of RAM depending on which cards you choose, do not think that you can add the RAM amounts together as it does not work like that.

Which 2GB models are you looking at? Some 2GB models don't sacrifice any speed at all, but some sacrifice significant amounts.

Yeah you're right about that mousemonkey, kinda silly of me, but just prior to this thread I read an article/review that explained what you're pointing out, so I did know! I just forgot to use my newly acquired knowledge

cjl: I was looking at the Palit GeForce GTX 285 2GB ( NE3TX285FT345 ).

Fair dues, Lieutenant cjl makes a fair point though about the actual need for so much RAM, unless you are intending to game at insane resolutions any more than a gig is a bit pointless

I'll be using 64 bit of course, and I'll either have 6GB or 12GB of ram..Probably just 6GB, but someone said something about a huge performance boost by having a lot of ram, and then disabling the page file..still trying to figure that one out.

I'm starting to get the gist of it though..2x2GB is too much seems to be the general opinion.

I think your gist is correct!

The Palit 2GB appears to have the same memory clock as the 1GB model (within a few percent), so it should perform at least equal to the 1GB in almost all cases. It would not perform noticeably better than the 1GB though - at that resolution, there is simply no real gain to be had from massive video memory.

CPU and/or network speed would be my guess, but it is just a guess as I don't do the MMO thang.

That is actually relative to your internet type, speed and the lowest PING you can possibly run, its almost impossible to help you, if you do not supply all the pertinent information to the problem, there is a lot of excellent people here at THGF, that will help you to 100% completion of solving your problem or question but we're not mind readers.

Everyone is running different systems, different ISPs, different internet connections and speeds, without all the details and specs, helping you is a shot in the dark at best.

All good here mate, you take care out there. Al