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Dark Savante
26 Feb 2007, 05:48 AM
Ok, I have a question.
Currently my comp only has 512 stick of DDRAM. I am going to buy some RAM in a few days time either 2 or 4 gig.
My question is, will I notice much of a difference between 2 and 4? I'm not a PC gamer and don't use my machine for any PC games, but I do use it to render vids and so forth and I also tend to have a large amount of programs open at one time that take up a lot of physical memory.
I'm basically asking if I'll see a significant difference between 2 and 4 - enough to warrant me going out and spending the extra ££? I'm expecting a huge leap in performance from 1/2gig to 2gig - is the leap from 2gig to 4gig the same?
Achtung
26 Feb 2007, 10:25 AM
4 GB is a lot of RAM, but if you're doing a lot of video processing like you mention, it could be worth it.
What's the cost difference?
benni...
26 Feb 2007, 10:31 AM
I think Im going to get into that.
caco794
26 Feb 2007, 12:53 PM
my brother works for a local tv station in the graphics side. sent him an im with your q and he said that his work pc has 2 gigs of ram and while the pc is rendering he's on photoshop working. while all that's going on, he says that there's still over 700 megs of memory waiting to be used. they have top notch C2D processors so that helps ou
Dark Savante
26 Feb 2007, 04:45 PM
4 GB is a lot of RAM, but if you're doing a lot of video processing like you mention, it could be worth it.
What's the cost difference?
£100. Planniing on getting it from crucial.co.uk.
I need to know if the jump from 2 to 4 is significant. i.e worth the investment.
my brother works for a local tv station in the graphics side. sent him an im with your q and he said that his work pc has 2 gigs of ram and while the pc is rendering he's on photoshop working. while all that's going on, he says that there's still over 700 megs of memory waiting to be used. they have top notch C2D processors so that helps ou
I wish I had C2D's... :( is it worth me getting 4g?
Achtung
26 Feb 2007, 10:16 PM
£100. Planniing on getting it from crucial.co.uk.
I need to know if the jump from 2 to 4 is significant. i.e worth the investment.
I wish I had C2D's... :( is it worth me getting 4g?
If its a computer you plan to have for a while, it might be worth it. But if the computer is over 18 months old, I wouldn't bother. I don't know how often you change computers, but if you're like most of us (3-5 years), you can just wait until you need to buy more. 2 GB is about standard for new computers these days, and memory tends to get cheaper over time obviously.
Spend the £100 on something nice for the lady to make her forget how much time you spend with us dorks. :)
Dark Savante
27 Feb 2007, 01:31 AM
If its a computer you plan to have for a while, it might be worth it. But if the computer is over 18 months old, I wouldn't bother. I don't know how often you change computers, but if you're like most of us (3-5 years), you can just wait until you need to buy more. 2 GB is about standard for new computers these days, and memory tends to get cheaper over time obviously.
Spend the £100 on something nice for the lady to make her forget how much time you spend with us dorks. :)
Yea, it's about 2yrs old now, and it's been nothing but shite since build. :mad: I haven't got £800 to throw away on another PC for now.
As for the wuuuu-man. She's spoilt enough. This money all minesis, I'll just buy something else with it instead <evil smiley>
StrikerCW
27 Feb 2007, 08:30 AM
From all the sounds of it, it seems like the extra ram might be a waste as the computer is not running that well as it were.
caco794
27 Feb 2007, 12:11 PM
k... my brother told me that getting the 4gb over the 2gb is a waste of money. when you get 4gb of physical ram, windows puts 2gigs for applications and 2gigs for windows executive software. I had heard of that before and I thought you could tweak the boot.ini to trick windows but I guess it's not possible. could be wrong.
Dark Savante
27 Feb 2007, 05:07 PM
k... my brother told me that getting the 4gb over the 2gb is a waste of money. when you get 4gb of physical ram, windows puts 2gigs for applications and 2gigs for windows executive software. I had heard of that before and I thought you could tweak the boot.ini to trick windows but I guess it's not possible. could be wrong.
Coolio. Cheers for the info. I order the 2gig.
One more question.
Is it possible to put in my old memory in one of the remaining slots or does the increment have to be evens? i.e 2, 4
thurd
27 Feb 2007, 08:08 PM
Few questions for any of you who know....if I order a new notebook with Vista, is it wise to order Office (supposedly 2007 but I thought it was being delayed?) with it, or should I just wait? And will Football Manager 2007 run on Vista? Thanks.
Stud83
27 Feb 2007, 09:18 PM
Coolio. Cheers for the info. I order the 2gig.
One more question.
Is it possible to put in my old memory in one of the remaining slots or does the increment have to be evens? i.e 2, 4
The problem with putting your old memory in one of the slots is that your pc will only run as fast as its slowest link. So regardless of how good and fast your new memory is, if you keep the old one in, it would not run faster than the old one.
Motterman
28 Feb 2007, 02:55 PM
Few questions for any of you who know....if I order a new notebook with Vista, is it wise to order Office (supposedly 2007 but I thought it was being delayed?) with it, or should I just wait? And will Football Manager 2007 run on Vista? Thanks.
Office 2007 came out with Vista.
Vista is fine for many home uses and looks flippin sweet.
I don't see a reason an app like FM 07 would not run on Vista. But you may check some gaming forums about that.
Vista is clearly not ready for the business world though. Personally, I'm not going to get Vista until Service Pack 1 is released...