Simple question: RAM or processor upgrade

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dan_foster11

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This is pretty simple. Im going to either upgrade my RAM or processor, NOT BOTH. For now atleast. Here are the options:

Upgrading from 1gb of ram to 2gb of ram.
Upgrading from AMD 3500+ to a AMD 4600+.

Which one would give the better performance boost for games?
 
Either will give a good boost in performance, I believe you will realize a larger increase with the CPU.

As mentioned already, what is your GPU?
 
i would suggest you to upgrade cpu, coz upgrading RAM to 2 gig actually won't help much in games (if you are gamers) 1 gig is always enough.
If you need to pump the frame rates in games, it depends highly on your CPU and Graphic cards.
 
What types of games are you playing? If it is a memory intensive game, Adding Ram can have a huge impact on performance.
 
I'd defiantly upgrade the cpu instead of the ram. As everyone has said here you won't notice a huge benefit to having 2gb of ram over 1gb. BF2 has some noticeable gains in performance but you will see better performance with a faster cpu.
 
im gonna just put in my two cents *clink...clink*...lol srry...now ill put in my info i say cpu....ram helps but it kinda decreases the more u get...say from 512 to 1gig ud see a big change...but in 1gig to 2gigs it prolly wouldn't give you that much better...its kinda like a expenential decrease in improvement...your cpu has to be able to take advantage of all that ram and so it would be better to do the cpu first and formost
 
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