Hi, Can someone please tell me how does 1G of Ram helps that much in games, compare to 512MB as other referring? Although i am using 2x512MB of ram in duel channel.. But i really have no idea why everyone recommand 1G so much. Does it allow your computer "act" faster, and smooth game play? And, does XP pro really makes your computer go faster than XP home?? Likes entering another room in games and need to load things from the harddrive etc? Thanks!

its all depends on the type of game. grab yourself a magazine like PC Gamer, and look at the game, and the 'what we reccommend' thing above a game they review. thats what your computer should be to play the game 'fast' .just go usually with 1G (if you care about performance etc). another thing is ram latency. get kingston hyper x 6-2-2-2 2x512 MB . basiaclly this will not only be faster in games, doing other things to. like multitasking, benchmark performance hikes, etc. about the OS's , its important to know that the newer the version of the OS is, the slower it will go on your computer. thats why computers upgrade with OS's as they can both do faster things that the slower computer couldnt. if you want fast load times, get some research done on raid 0 , this makes loading times super fast. the reason people reccomend 1G so much is because more is better. if more wasnt better, then why do people upgrade their computers to get 'more' fps on games and such? also, making games faster takes a good video card. usually, the more expensive they are the better they are. first, if you feel your games are getting slow etc, just get a newer model video card than which you had before. hope this helps! www.5starsupport.com

Oh I see.. I didn't got those hyper x or twin x ram, because they usually cost twice as much as two same 512mb ram. And people said those are for overclocking, which i don't want to take the risk. I got the eVGA 6600GT 128mb video card, which i think it could get the jobs done quite nicely for now. And I'll do some research on the raid 0 thing that you mention. Thanks. =)

Mr X, I have just one disagreement with what you had to say. RAID-0 does not help load times in most instances. There was a recent article in Maximum PC on this very subject. They found that the load times were almost identical under raid-0 as without it. And in some cases it actually took slightly longer with raid. The reason for this apparent anomally is that the files for the levels on many of the high end games are in a compressed format. The load time between levels is not caused by the speed of the hard-drive so much as the time it takes for the processor to uncompress the files. However, it would be unwise to uncompress the files on the hard drive for the same reason that you would not want to send large, uncompressed files via email. It is better to send small files and have them get uncompressed at the receiving end. Michael J

RAM defineitly matters a great amount. Big games you really need at least 512mb of it, but if you can afford a gig of it then go for it. Just make sure you got the right pc,(pc2100 - 266mhz; pc2700 - 333mhz; pc3200 - 400mhz) OS makes a big difference too. XP was designed for games, media, graphics, etc. But if you have anything lower than that, surprisingly Windows 98 is better for media than Windows 2000. I am not joking. "I've gotta bad feeling about this."