dragon2309

I got my extra 1Gb DDR400 OCZ Performance for christmas and i thought i would enlighten you to what a jump from 512Mb up to 1.5Gb does for performance.

Boot Times:

An average taken of 3 boot sequences to windows logon screen

512Mb - 38 secs
1.5Gb - 29 secs

A drop of 9 seconds on bootup isnt that shabby....


FPS in HL2 (xmas present)

Settings- 1024x768 @32bit -everything at medium except shadows at high (yeh it sucks but look at my gfx card, needs an upgrade seriously)

The reading taken when i got to the chase at the beginning of Chapter4 - WATER HAZARD - All readins taken by "FRAPS 2.7.2"

512Mb - 34 fps (ouch)
1.5Gb - 47 fps (still ouch but slightly less painful)


And now just a general note on the fluidness in the motion of windows, faded menu effects and standard opening of desktop folders is so much faster, almost instant.... Skipping through 200+ songs in winamp playlist is instant now aswell, no 1-2 second pause between each track as it prepairs itself to play.

By far the best ever £85 GBP ive spent in a long time.

dragon2309

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