Performance Impact of Changing Memory Size from 1 GB to 2GB

John Doe

Heres an interesting read if your building a new PC.

http://www.corsairmemory.com/corsair/products/tech/AN506_1GB_vs_2GB.pdf

Of course Corsair would want you to purchase 2GB of ram, but IMHO 2GB may be overkill for many things. In about a year I suspect 2GB will become the standard for many people but weigh the costs when purchasing or building a new PC. The extra money you put into that extra GB of ram might be able to be better used to get you a better video card or some other upgrade you really need.

Start at 1GB, and consider the upgrade in the future.

JD
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Stevo · Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 5:05 pm Post subject:

Interesting... I think I'll stick with 1.5GB for now.

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Bull · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:29 pm Post subject:

Hey, JD. I just built this rig and got it going this week.

Asus A8N-SLI Premium
AMD 64 3500+
2 1g sticks of Kingston
Nvidia 7800GT-SLI OC 256m
250G WD
Logitech laser mouse & KB
Lightscribe 2-layer DVD-RW (cool ability to laser the lable to the disks!)

As to the 2gig of memory, my main purpose was to get the full
capabiblity of the DDR, as it does make a diff, rather than 1 stick.
The price has dropped somewhat (82 a stick on EGG)

I did run 2 sticks of 512 DDR, but the 2 1gig sticks really start shining
when a memory-intensive pgm has been running for a while. It's
almost like running the old-fashioned memory drive. Popping in between pgms is a snap, esp when 5-6 pgms running all at once. I do a little multimedia video work in my spare time. I concure that 1 meg should suffice for gaming, but I would suggest running minimal services in the background.

Millertime..

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Rough Justice · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:10 pm Post subject:

Overkill? - I run 4GB of RAM

Mike · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:52 pm Post subject:

squidly · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:05 pm Post subject:

Heya!!!

1Gb is plenty enough for most game!!! The gain in FPS passing from 1gb to 2gb is minimal and I dont think it worth the price of the extra 1gb!!! 2gb is only necessary for really heavy application and/or heavy multitasking!!

Good review on the subject on tom's hardware website!!!

http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/13/how_much_ram_do_you_really_need/index.html

So I think i'll will believe an independant reviewer instead of a review coming from a memory stick seller!!! Dunno why!!!

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ROOFCUTTER · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:24 pm Post subject:

Piggy back question....I want to upgrade my companys laptop weak 128mb memory.

Some of the sites are asking what cpu, Pentium or celeron but the laptop only shows;
x86 family 6 model 8 strepping 10 for a cpu.

what the heck is that?
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(+)ASSASSIN(+) · Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:22 am Post subject:

-=Ronin=- · Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:02 am Post subject:

I have a sempron 1.5 speed.. but I have 640 MB DDR Ram , will it really help to have 1 Gig of Ram?...
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(+)ASSASSIN(+) · Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:15 am Post subject:

-=Ronin=- · Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:57 pm Post subject:

thx ..I'll consider that instead...
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Canadian Rifle · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:34 pm Post subject:

yea and after u upgrade the cpu then upgrade the RAM becuz the standards are rising all the time and more and more games need to run on a gig!!
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