i am about to upgrade my ram, to go with my new graphics card, and i have the choice of going with 2 gigs of ram or three gigs, im filling in the last two slots on my mobo. one more gig cost 50 bucks and leaves me with some money for another harddrive later, or an aditional 3 gigs costs 83 which is almost my full budget. i am just wondering if two gigs is enough for a long time(say a year). and yes like everyone else in this forum. i need it to be able to run crysis on megagho;sdfaidjfoia ultra high, or just to not bottle neck anything. thanks
^^ What the MOD said ^^ .. If you've got Vista then the more RAM the better really (seeing as theres all those random useless programs running in the background)
Yeh 3GB is best for Vista ... i'd go for 800 just cause it's faster if you want to overclock your CPUAnubis_386
well i have a budget of max maybe 125, well i have about 140 but tax and shipping. so what would you recomend. has to be from newegg cause i have gift certificates for there.
Well if u get a 2GB dual channel kit then a 1GB stick the 2GB will be in dual channel mode and the 1GB won't ... That's the way to do it reallyAnubis_386
so that wont result in proformance drops from say a 2 gig kit(2 one gig sticks) and a one gig kit(2 512 sticks)?
Well if u get a 2GB dual channel kit then a 1GB stick the 2GB will be in dual channel mode and the 1GB won't ... That's the way to do it reallyAnubis_386
If you have 4 slots you could do 1GB x 1GB & 512MB x 512MB.
Personally I think that's limiting and in the future that 512MB x 512MB is going to be a waste. I also don't like using all 4 slots of memory, I'd rather just have 2 filled up. If you really want 3GB then get 2 - 2GB sticks :)
I know not every version (mostly desktop) of Windows can access the full 4GB, but it's close and I don't think the cost is that much different between 3 & 4 GB. The only disadvantage is most 2GB sticks aren't quite up to the speed of 1GB sticks which can be a problem if you are overclocking.
is a 2 gig kit and a one gig stick of this ram good enough for what i need. in other words, is the quality good enough. also the cheapest 2 gig stick i could find was 91 bucks, so a little expensive seeing as i can only spend up to about 150.
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