RAM upgrade.. Incredible!!

[Applecrusher]

Was walking around town today, got payed last night.. So I decided to spoil myself to some ram...

Having 512 mb already, and it being Corsair LL stuff.. I thought.. does it realy matter about tight latencies and such?

So i got me 2 x 512 Mb of Elixer 3200 stuff, cheap and nasty..

Straight into my box it went, next to my other stick.. Ran pifast to see that it was working.. no real gains there...

Loaded up CSS.. I was able to turn the graphics up to full @1024x786.. This is on a 9600PRO..

It was the smoothest I had seen it play..

So I thought.. "Hey BF2 will send me packing!!"

Put it on Medium, same Res.. smooth as a babys behind, and half the load time!!

So to anyone who is even considering an upgrade and has only 512mb of ram, go buy some generic ram, bout a gig, and youll be set for a good while

[M0nkeyb0Y]

Thanks man - I'll give it a go. I've got 1*512 crucial - doesn't suit CSS too well.

[shaithis]

Cheap RAM can cause you more headaches then you'd imagine.

I have troubleshot a number of freinds PCs that were experiencing random hangs and crashes (games would drop to desktop or just lock the whole PC, sometimes after 5 mins, sometimes after 5 hours)....in every one of these cases it was due to cheap RAM being used in a dual channel motherboard.

Good luck if you get away with it but I've learnt that buying branded RAM is a much safer option and if you shop around you can get decent RAM at decent prices.

e.g. 1GB Geil Dual Channel DDR kit at 70 quid