512mb or RAID?

[Patriarch]

Hey, guys. I do work with 3D animation, own Athlon XP 2500 and a ASUS 8X Deluxe Mother board. Soon I'll receive some money and I have about what to buy, 512mb RAM, 1024mb RAM or a RAID Board. Since my mother board support RAM dual channel, what do you suggest for best performance?

 

[pIII_Man]

i would say memory...

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz...

 

[Patriarch]

thats true, but if buy 2 256Mb RAM modules I could buy better modules, with a highter FSB support...
My biggest doubt is how much is the difference between 512 to 1024 Mb in WinXP Pro?

 

[pIII_Man]

well windows xp is very wasteful with memory so it would help beter than in any other os...raid would only speed up bootup and loading up a game...not speed up your framerates or make the windows environment seem faster..

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz...

 

[Solstice]

Raid card, Christ man, I have 4 or 5 sitting here near my desk. Get the memory you can get a good card Cheap cheap.

"Bush+Rumsfield=Dictatorship"

 

[bum_jcrules]

How much do you want for one?




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