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post #41 of 52
1/5/06 at 2:00am
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Say... is it normal that i need 320mb ram idle?
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post #42 of 52
1/5/06 at 2:01am
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Originally Posted by Nessal
That's true. With 1gb it will take a long ass time to load the game on high. But I set my settings on medium and never on high. I guess if you want to run at high with 4X AA then you will need 2gb. But the 6800Go can't keep up at that rate anyways.
I keep my settings on medium so I can run at 1920x1200, ram usage is at around 1.1-1.3 gigs. I just upgraded from 512 mb for christmas and theres a big difference.
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post #43 of 52
1/5/06 at 4:23am
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Originally Posted by Master_Axe
Say... is it normal that i need 320mb ram idle?


Mine is at around 300 usually. So you're sound about right. BTW, I didn't reformat yet so I still have all the bloatware.
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post #44 of 52
1/5/06 at 11:11am
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Originally Posted by kingjimmi
Here's a tech paper from Corsair. Basically says that you won't see any benefit from 2GB RAM cept for in some newer applications and games, notably BF2 and encoding applications.
http://www.corsairmemory.com/corsair...1GB_vs_2GB.pdf
Is weird how the AMD decrease in performance with 2gb.
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post #45 of 52
1/5/06 at 11:16am
This may sound rediculous, but i got this idea, seeing as USB 2.0 is fast, could you plug in an ipod shuffle or something and somehow run that as "virtual memory" wouldn't it be able to be accessed faster than your harddrive?

i'm prepared to get laughed at for this one.
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post #46 of 52
1/5/06 at 11:19am
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Originally Posted by Xattica
Is weird how the AMD decrease in performance with 2gb.
It probably has something to do with their on-CPU memory controller and how it handles 2GB of ram. Intel just happens to do a better job of managing and moving around data in memory.
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post #47 of 52
1/5/06 at 12:47pm
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Originally Posted by Event-Horizon
It probably has something to do with their on-CPU memory controller and how it handles 2GB of ram. Intel just happens to do a better job of managing and moving around data in memory.
AMD vs. Intel thread hijacking in progress.

I don't know nearly enough about the differences between Intel and AMD's memory control, but it seems to me that since AMD beats the pants off Intel desktop chips with DDR while the Intel uses DDR2, it would make me think that AMD is using the memory more efficiently. Should be interesting to see what the next round of AMD chips that use DDR2 tap out at.

If there was a decently priced AMD based 17" laptop with a 6800 Ultra or 7800gtx, for a reasonable price (sub 2500), I would have gone for that in a heartbeat. Sager has the new 9750 with the X2's in them, but their support is non-existent, the prices are over 3 grand and they don't offer No Interest for 18 months. The M170 does everything I need and more for the time being, but my next laptop will be an AMD dual-core, probably on the M2 socket using DDR2.
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post #48 of 52
1/5/06 at 2:00pm
hey i have no stuttering. and all i run at medium is lighting, everything else is high including texture filtering and 2x antialising.
When u say stuttering do u mean the like 10 second pauses on server with like 500 ping?
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post #49 of 52
1/5/06 at 2:28pm
Stuttering as in frames hanging repeatedly while the game has to tap the hard drive because 1GB of memory can't hold all of the files it needs quick access to. Alt-tab out while you're playing and ctrl-alt-del. Look at your memory usage...its easily up over 1GB. If you don't get any stuttering at 1920x1200 with all high settings (except lighting), your notebook is a modern miracle and should be displayed in the Smithsonian next to Mr. Rogers red sweater and Judy Garland's ruby slippers.
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post #50 of 52
1/6/06 at 2:54pm
I see two Transcend 1gig cards today at NewEgg. Anyone have an opinion?

Transcend Samsung Chipset 1GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 533 (PC2 4200) - Model #: TS128MSQ64V5J - $61.50 after rebate (Not shown on the Transcend website!??)

Transcend 1GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 533 (PC2 4200) - Model #:TS533N2-1024 - $70
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post #51 of 52
1/6/06 at 2:57pm
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Originally Posted by BigFoot48
I see two Transcend 1gig cards today at NewEgg. Anyone have an opinion?

Transcend Samsung Chipset 1GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 533 (PC2 4200) - $61.50 after rebate (Not shown on the Transcend website!)

Transcend 1GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 533 (PC2 4200) $70
Great stuff for the price. Bought 2 GB for my M140...been zipping along ever since. Helps especially with graphics in my case since I have integrated video.
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post #52 of 52
1/6/06 at 3:01pm
when i went up to 2gb ram, FEAR stopped stuttering (its the max textures at anything 1024x768 or over that do it i'm pretty sure) and alt+tab out of FEAR became about 10x faster, because it didn't have to hit my pagefile to swap out stuff. in the task manager, it showed FEAR using slightly more than 1gb of ram, and my peak commit charge was around 1430000KB (1.4gb roughly).
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