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post #21 of 27
6/1/06 at 6:38am
Current wisdom seems to be that 4GB of RAM is totally not worth it at this point, being priced at 2000-3000 USD. If you have money to burn, sure, go ahead, it's your wallet. But Vista and DX10 will not be out for at least another half year (spring 2007 if I rember right? ). By the time you will really feel the difference 2GB DIMMs might become a whole lot cheaper.
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post #22 of 27
6/1/06 at 10:53pm
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Originally Posted by Haze
because u have money to burn?
sure it was a noob question but it was answered already by helpful people i come to these forums for, no need to flame and contribute nothing to the world with that remark, i used to like u ronin

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound like an ass, I apologize. I'll give you some rep in return!
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post #23 of 27
6/1/06 at 11:16pm
I have XPS M170 and I did order with 1G ram, Then after I got this laptop I tested out games and can see it still work good at 1Gb but I upgraded to 2Gb and it show real good performance in it but getting to 4gb would be overkill and waste of monies. Right now most of new games out there are not hitting that high yet or maybe not really sure yet.
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post #24 of 27
6/2/06 at 1:59am
There's some rep for you Haze.
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post #25 of 27
6/2/06 at 2:48am
Thread Starter 
aw shucks, apology accepted yeah it was a bad question but now im more knowledgeable and ill stick with 2 gigs and spend my money elsewhere
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post #26 of 27
6/2/06 at 3:59am
I'm with everyone else, 4 gigs is nuts for a laptop. If you really want that much Ram buy a desktop or a server . Or you could buy another lappy with 2 gigs for what it is going to cost you for 4 in your current system.
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post #27 of 27
6/2/06 at 12:57pm
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Originally Posted by darkloki
And Vista is probably going to use more then 2 gb's of ram,

I wonder where that bullshit about "Vista needs at least 2Gigs, probably more" is coming from.

Sure, Vista will probably use somewhat more memory than XP, meaning that instead of around 100Megs for a plain-vanilla XP installation, you may need 200Megs. So that's 100MB more, and I really do not understand what the big deal is supposed to be. Vista will run just fine with 512MB (which is just about the minimum you can buy a modern machine with anyway these days), and it will be peachy with 1Gig. Whether or not you need more than that depends on your applications. If you insist on running a game that fills a Gig by itself, then, yes, get 2Gigs, but that story is no different from XP.
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