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Subject: Is it worth Getting More Ram?
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I have a intel celeron 2.5 ghz and i have 256mb of ram i told my friend that i wanted to get another stick that was 256mb for the total of 512mb. He told me witht the proccesor i have i wont feel the difference IS THIS TRUE?

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  • 03.03.2005 8:34 AM PDT
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Heyyo,

Heh, letme explain what ram prety much does.

You see, ram is a way of pre-caching things. Pre-Caching is a special system where your Cpu pages your HD to send info to your ram since ram is a heckova lot faster than your HD. Ram's something like a 4ns delay, and your HD is 1ms (I think) so that's quite the difference. So let's say you're playing a new game like UT2k4, you're running around, enemy's start to shoot at you.. your cpu then pages your HD to load the particles for their guns n' player models n' such.. oops! you don't have a lot of ram.. it clears our some ram space (takes time) and then slaps on the new info.. by then you're probably dying or dead. Now, if ya had over 1GB of ram? it wouldn't really need to clear soo much ram space now would it? it could just load it to your ramsticks elsewhere since it would have a lot of space eh? Another problem with not having enough ram is if it clears that info from your ram stick, and the game needs it again? CPU needs to page hd to send info, clear ram space, and finally put that back on. So a lack in ram, is a HUGE lack in overall preformance. Expect a lot of freezing while your CPU pages HD n' tries to get infro from your RAM in newer games. UT2k4, Tribes: Vengeance, Half-Life 2, definately Unreal 3 once that beast-of-a-game gets released.. lol, oh god I would hate to have a ram shortage on that one. :p

So? I say another stick of 256mb is aiming too low, get another stick of 512MB. You'll need all the ram you can get for newer games, n' ram's pretty cheap these days, so shop away. ;)

  • 03.03.2005 9:32 AM PDT
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Who is this friend? Is he really your friend or is he secretly trying to hold you down! If more 256 MB of ram was all your processor could use they wouldn't have another slot there for you to put some more. Why would they do this? Anyway I would listen to The Mard the more Ram the better.

  • 03.03.2005 10:26 AM PDT
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The more the better... I've just had to drop back down to 512. If you can afford it and your mobo supports it, get a 1GB stick... you will think you have a new comp...

  • 03.03.2005 10:30 AM PDT
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Thanks i guess my friend was lying lol bastard

  • 03.03.2005 12:22 PM PDT
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The above (good) advice of more ram = better notwithstanding, I think your friend is right. If you're having troubles running games on a Celeron more ram might not be the miracle fix. Celerons are designed to use less power so they're better for laptops. Celerons are not too good for gaming. I am curious, how does Halo run with your current setup? And what vid card ya got?

  • 03.03.2005 1:05 PM PDT
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Ya i think it would run well with the celoron but i have intel intergated grapics 64mb so that slows the game down alot but if i got a better video card i think i could play halo pretty good when you think about the xbox has a 755mhz proccessers so i think 2.5 ghz is pretty good

  • 03.03.2005 1:17 PM PDT
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I have a celeron and I noticed a big difference when going from 256 to 512. It also decreases load times.

  • 03.03.2005 1:19 PM PDT