Is it worth getting 2GiB of RAM?

[dannyboy83]

I ended up getting another twin pack of Corsair 2 x 512Mb sticks.

So I have 4 x 512Mb identicle Corsair memory sticks with silver heat spreaders.

BF2 definitely plays better with 2Gb rather than 1Gb

[skuzgib]

^ what he said, but I can't help thinking this is sales propaganda...

[Dav0s]

^ what he said, but I can't help thinking this is sales propaganda...

i would say the same, if i hasnt sen tests from indpendent companies. (ie. people that dont conveniently sell 2gb ram)

i suppose ill get 2gb eventually, but as i dont play BF2 iw ould much rather spend the upgrade money on a new gfx card and see a much largr performance increase..

[Lee H]

Has anyone managed to run 4 by 512 on an amd venice system with decent timings? I am not sure if i am just asking too much of my system or my memory is sub-par but i needed to use 3T timings and apparently that really hurts performance... :/

Yeap - I have 2 Gigs of the Xpert range in 512 Mb sticks PC3200XL and these run fine at 3200, timings of 2-2-2-5 (2t) when running the 4 sticks

[kempez]

I was tempted to get another 2 sticks, but with Rev 2 being non TCCD didn't wanna risk it. Plus below high FSB's its better to get Mushkin Redline or something (and I didn't wanna buy 4sticks ).

So I'm going for 2 x 1gb sticks of GSkillz PC4000 from the states from a mate for £150inc shipping. Not bad eh?

[Totem]

If you have the money it cant hurt? I would if i could afford it, but not at the moment.

[YorkieBen]

ive recently got 2gb in my athlon xp system and the difference in BF2 is awesome (superquick loading times and not jerkiness) and also video encoding seems alot faster as well

well chuffed

[jiffz]

I personally think its better to get good value 1GB of RAM. There is no real need more for than this at the moment unless you do rendering.

[Speed]

I personally think its better to get good value 1GB of RAM. There is no real need more for than this at the moment unless you do rendering.

Good value? You mean Good quality ram?

[webbyman]

Knowledge is power

I think the performance increase difference of Intel and AMD was the DDR2. It does show that AMD need it to beat Intel again.

omg are you stupid? lol

ddr2 was and is rubbish.