512 MB to 1 GB

Le GoogelGuRu

Le GoogelGuRu

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Hi Everyone,

Would there be a large performance difference between 512 MB and 1 GB? I have 512 MB and the computer works fine with it, but I was wondering would there be a difference in the newer and high-end games if I had a 1GB stick instead of 512MB?

Should I upgrade in terms of Vista being released soon (well, not really soon, but you know what I mean...).

So... what are your opinions on this?
 
There would be a significant improvement in most tasks. But it wont make much of a difference in games since anything that you play with your integrated graphics probably dont even use 512mb of ram.
 
i agree, making the move up to 1gig def improves the speed and performance of every day tasks. I just did it to my shitty lenovo work laptop, but it was worth it for sure.
 
I noticed a difference right away. Faster program loading, less swapfile thrashing, faster CD and DVD burns. No such thing as too much RAM.
Tom
 
furthermore, i'm using a virtualization solution (Parallels Workstation), and with the big virtual hard drives, the 1gig RAM helps the performance of those VMs as well.
 
OvenMaster said:
I noticed a difference right away. Faster program loading, less swapfile thrashing, faster CD and DVD burns. No such thing as too much RAM.
Tom
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what ?
 
but I was wondering would there be a difference in the newer and high-end games if I had a 1GB stick instead of 512MB?
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The games would load faster, lol. Something I hate waiting for lol.
 
shadyi said:
what ?
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Yes. When burning CDs, I shaved like 5 minutes off, and with DVDs, it takes around 10-15 minutes less, now that I have 1GB of RAM. See, I use Nero, and verify files after burning. When verifying, at least 600-700MB of my RAM is used. WinRam Turbo Free shows RAM usage. When I had only 512MB, there was a lot of hard drive thrashing when verifying. Now? Hardly any at all, and the entire burn/verify cycle is measurably shorter. The only thing I did was double my RAM.

Any further questions?

Tom
 
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OvenMaster said:
I noticed a difference right away. Faster program loading, less swapfile thrashing, faster CD and DVD burns. No such thing as too much RAM.
Tom
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Not completely rigth.
You can indeed get to much memory in for example Windows XP: 2GB of memory can make the system unstable, then you must make some sligtly changes in BIOS. Anything over 2GB memory in windows XP would not make any difference, in some cases it would simply be to much.
 
liuliuboy said:
that's really not helping here...

and yes, get a gig of ram, that's pretty much the standard right now
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I might consider that.. but I think 512mb is more of a standard for office users, and I'm kinda between office-and-gamer...
 
Hey, i have an ATI Radeon 9600XT and 1GB ram and i gotta say the desktop performance is very nice, but my games lag?!?! its very frustrating. I even broght another 1GB to see if it improves me games but i hav not yet got it. Do you think it will help?
 
emaN resU said:
Not completely rigth.
You can indeed get to much memory in for example Windows XP: 2GB of memory can make the system unstable, then you must make some sligtly changes in BIOS. Anything over 2GB memory in windows XP would not make any difference, in some cases it would simply be to much.
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Is this why XP allocates 2GB per program launched? Or why my motherboard wasn't designed to accept more than 2GB? I'll admit I'm occasionally still thinking of PCs when 256MB was considered an astronomical amount of RAM; my backup PC has just 96MB.
Tom
 
I remember when I went to college and got a new Gateway desktop that has 14.3 gigs of harddisk space...wow, if I had that now I don't know what I'd do.
 
Look at the old rig in my sig! I could play total annihilation on that at 600*800 no problem... dont know how i did.
 
justinone said:
Hey, i have an ATI Radeon 9600XT and 1GB ram and i gotta say the desktop performance is very nice, but my games lag?!?! its very frustrating. I even broght another 1GB to see if it improves me games but i hav not yet got it. Do you think it will help?
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It may improve the game very slightly, but the reason your games are laggy are because of your video card.
 
When i upgraded my comp from 512MB to 1GB didnt notice a huge performance gain. But using large applications, or many applications, you can tell significantly the performance gains.
 
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