How much RAM for gaming???

**Paladyr** · 12-26-2002, 03:45 PM

Is 256mb enough or will the slowdowns be bothersome enough to warrant shelling out another 56 bucks for 512? Assume most newer games will be played. Thanks!

**Hans Moleman** · 12-26-2002, 04:04 PM

I'd add another 256MB stick.

**muzikjunkie** · 12-26-2002, 04:07 PM

256 is ok, but for allaround overhead, 512 is best, but not utterly neccessary

**bv0r** · 12-26-2002, 04:54 PM

Go for 512 if money is not an issue =)
And if its not, buy me a stick while your at it

**Racer^** · 12-26-2002, 05:08 PM

If your games are all a year old or more, then you'll rarely see a difference. However, some of the newer games (like Battlefield 1942) show definite speedups (especially when loading maps) if you have more than 256MB.

**CadetLee** · 12-26-2002, 05:45 PM

If you can afford it, go for 512mb. I went from 512mb to 1.5Gb (a while back, though..no longer have that system)..honestly, I didn't notice much of a difference - 512mb seems to be the best place to be.

**///////haz-matt** · 12-27-2002, 01:59 AM

what i would do is find out how many slots my motherboard has. then save ure money and buy every slot a 512MB and make shure its the right kind of ram. you can go wrong with that if u get the wrong kind of ram. all the memory youll know what to do with. hell a nioce 512 is what i need. i got this new computer on the 25 got 5 messages that day virtual memory is low with my 128. it sucks **** with this
128. have a nice day

///////haz-matt

**fbs1992** · 12-27-2002, 02:37 AM

512 or more once you get to 1gb game performance really picks up. my friend can play every game with really good framerates(splinter cell blood rayne) with a gf2 gts 32mb card, and he usually play sat 1024x768

**KommisMar** · 12-27-2002, 03:37 AM

If you're running Win9x, it's hard to recommend anything more than 256MB as you can start running into problems. If it's Win2000/XP, frankly I'd look at 512MB as a minimum... not so much for gaming, but just for general computer use. 256MB is enough, but it leaves you almost no headroom and you're going to be accessing the pagefile like crazy.

I'm even at the point where 512MB isn't doing it for me anymore. I've been playing around with 3D applications, and I've seen times where one particular program (Poser) was using as much as 300MB of RAM. Ouch!

**mjdart** · 12-27-2002, 03:54 AM

I have found 512 MB the right size as many others have stated.

**SpAg** · 12-27-2002, 04:59 AM

Originally posted by KommisMar
If you're running Win9x, it's hard to recommend anything more than 256MB as you can start running into problems. If it's Win2000/XP, frankly I'd look at 512MB as a minimum... not so much for gaming, but just for general computer use. 256MB is enough, but it leaves you almost no headroom and you're going to be accessing the pagefile like crazy.

I'm even at the point where 512MB isn't doing it for me anymore. I've been playing around with 3D applications, and I've seen times where one particular program (Poser) was using as much as 300MB of RAM. Ouch!

very tru, when i use 3dsm and do a 3 hour render windows has eventually dedicated about 450-475mb of my 512 to the render

**kidsony** · 12-27-2002, 05:02 AM

so far i am happy with 512

**fastitocalon** · 12-27-2002, 10:58 AM

another recommendation for 512

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