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How important is ram in playing games

post #1 of 6
8/15/04 at 5:56pm
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I ordered my a51m and its currently stage 4. I ordered it with 1gb of ram, 3.4 ghz processor and ati 9700 video card. I was wondering how much of a boost I would get out of upping the ram to 2gb. It is an expensive upgrade, so before I do it, I wanted to get some opinions. Should I go up to 2gb or should I just wait and upgrade when the 9800 ati card comes out. Upgrading the video card would probably be cheaper than upgrading the ram, but if I would get a big boost in game performance it might be worth it. I will also be running visual studio.net on it alot if that helps.
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post #2 of 6
8/15/04 at 6:03pm
1GB will pull you off greatly, but if you need an upgrade, do it your self for cheaper.
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post #3 of 6
8/15/04 at 6:28pm
RAM is always important with everything. Upgrading for yourself would be much cheaper of course, like Donnie says.
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post #4 of 6
8/16/04 at 4:23am
I run gig and I do all right for games and animation apps. Still another GIG would be nice. At least get he gig in a single stick to leave a slot for later.
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post #5 of 6
8/16/04 at 5:23am
I think some of the 51m's were having trouble supporting 2GB. I would stick with 1GB of high quality ram.
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post #6 of 6
8/16/04 at 11:12am
A gig for now is more than enough. That said, the wonders of AGP let your motherboard steal memory ram to use it as videoram. For example, on my old computer, I ran Vice City with a 16MB videocard because I had 512MB RAM. It required I think a 32MB videocard just to boot, but I was able to get it on really high resolutions.

So in conclusion, more is always better.
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