I currently have 1 GB of RAM and was deciding whether to buy two 512's or two 1GB sticks.
My friend tells me that I can get 3 GB but my comp will only use 2 GB. Is this true, what should I do?
fiendless7
Would have to know which operating system to use for this question to be sufficiently answered. It seems to be an endless debate on this forum over ram and how it helps your system. First of all, games aren't the only thing computers and RAM are used for. The purpose of RAM is not to give you more fps in a game, so we can successfully end that argument. The only real way I'd image RAM would affect gaming is if the RAM is absurdly slow. However with the speed of todays RAM, that is a thing of the past. RAM is there to cache/store needed and valuable data for the system, and is much faster than the paging file on the hard drive (This is where it WILL affect a game. RAM can only hold so much data before the system will resort to the paging file, where when it's accessed, the game will choke for a small amount of time while new data/textures are loaded).
Less RAM = more paging file use (no matter what % ram is being shown as used, the paging file is always being used, regardless (unless you disable it)) = slower performance on loading, multitasking, switching between applications that use larger amounts of ram.
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