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Hi,
As noted above I currently have 384 MB of PC 133 SDRAM, and I about to increase that amount. My main uses for the computer are gaming, and occasional FTP serving. I have a Geforce 4 MX 420 64MB video card. My question is would there be a very noticeable performance difference between 576 MB RAM and 768 MB? Is it worth the extra $50.00, adding 512 versus 256? Thx !
I don't think you would notice any differance at all
But I would check that your mobo will accept that much ram
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My motherboard is an MSI K7T Le, and can take up to 1.5 GB. I know a video card upgrade would improve game performance, but that is not an option at the moment. : (
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I would save the money to get a better video card. I do not think you will be able to notice any difference in performance by doing the ram upgrade that you are thinking about. Take care and all the best!
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Your not going to notice any diffrence with the memory upgrade. If you want to see and improvement go with a vid card. Right now u can get really good vid card for under $150. If one of your main uses is gaming and u dont have a good vid card already I would just save some money and get a good vid card. The prices are not that far out of reach, especially when ur willing to drop $50 on something that wont do u a bit of good. Hope this helps. Good luck
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I think what you will actually find is that having excessive memory will do the reverse of what you expect and will slow your machine down, so yes you will notice a difference.
Windows is designed to support about 1.5 to 2 times the amount of memory that your system actually requires before it starts going hold on I can't comprehend all this memory.
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OK, upgrading from 384Mb to 576Mb will improve system performance by about 3-4%, so not much. However, going up to 768Mb will improve this to 6-8%. With this method of increasing it, I would suggest taking it one step further (960Mb) and get a real noticable 10% performance hit. If you are running XP, I expect that your motherboard can handle 1Gb of RAM, and XP can handle that easily, so why not?
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Well I dropped $100 for the 512 MB Kingston, total now is 768 MB. I've seen a very noticeable performance increase in gaming, in particular UT2003. I had to drop a 64MB stick to free a slot, but I think the $100 was worth it after seeing not only an increase in gaming performance, but an overall system performance boost. My 3D Mark 2001SE score went from 2537 to 3749.
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