might as well spend more on faster CPU an GC. RAM can be added later, if u compromise u'r CPU for more ram, then u won't be able to use the benefits of it anyway.

Thats the fastest and greatest system i believe....not everyone can get such improvement, heck some even not at all...

Some time ago...when doom3 was first released, I was on 512mb ram and despite the system (cpu & graphic card) being totally adequate for the resolution....fps all stable and all... there's those irritating once a while jerks (PAGEFILE)... so that's what 2GB's all about.

Pagefiles....bad

actually 1.5gig is already sufficent for you to play all games with pagefile turn off.
none of the single program/games in windows can utlize more than 1gb

so 1gb max for game+512 for window program.

lol

2 giggers are for the people who want to spend on it, it doenst matter if they are really required or not

if u feel like u want to have a bigger dong, why not?

2 gigs are really smooth when ur doing lots of software spamming, abusing etc.

for gaming? nah, i dun buy 2 gigs for gaming, its for my own personal "feel"

and ychwang i see ur having DT-D43 2048mbs (2 giggers) , u lucky boy, i got micron and infineon chips both....sigh

Putting things into perspective....

2GB today?
- If don't play BF2, then ya don't need it today. Not too long ago, when o/c'er with their magic 256MB BH5's argues that 512MB is more than enough but now almost everyone's on 1GB.

2GB way of the future? (Thread title)
- Of course.
- Even in notebooks.. when my wife bought her carmel, it was 128MB standard. Then when Dothan was launched, everyone bundles 256MB, Nowadays.. almost nothing has less with 512MB. And in the recent couple months, even the entry level models in some countries have 1GB standard.

Actually even far cry benefits somewhat with 2gb. Level load times are so much faster. Boiling point also benefits a lot. I'm sure practically all upcoming games with eye candy will benefit from 2gb.

For BF2, just that game alone takes more than 1.3GB already

Moreover, you can't really get 1.5GB unless you run 3 sticks, which kills off dual channel.

1.5gig can be done with 512x2 + 256 x 2.

when i match dt-d43+btj(256), still manage to go 250mhz, oclockablity is not much affected.

i read in FM, people are saying even with 2 gigs there's still some hitching in FEAR

Yup, you are right. That's assuming you have 2 x 256MB, as what I have all the while is 2 x 512MB only.

If we put it this way, it might be successful to enable dual channel.

512MB (Channel A)
256MB (Channel

512MB (Channel A)
256MB (Channel

Yup, I am getting a lot of stuttering even though my frame rates are okay.

2GB for games which uses lots of AI too...

care to explain?

if you able to turn off windows xp page file, and still encounter hitching, adding more ram doesnt help at all, bcoz it still have to load sound/graphic from ur hdd during game play.

I think the hitching in fear bcoz of slow gpu/cpu or slow hardisk.

Not sure if you meant me, coz I am getting stuttering and I noticed that my hdd led is on during those times. I dunno about you, when I set too low of Page file, even not to the extend of disabling it, my system would hang when it needs more RAM.

I dun think my hardware is really that slow since I use A64 @ 2.6ghz, 7800GTX in SLI and 10K Raptor 73GB hdd.

the hitching issues is at what kinda settings ?

coz i plan to get fear to work on my weaker than weak pc

u should try to add 2gb ram and completely turn off the pagefile when play FEAR.

btw, r u running any background program in window desktop? When i open my abit EQ in background, playing NFS:underground also got hitch.

dun expect it can run on weak pc.

with 9800p+3.0c+2g ram also quite lag in medium detail+1024x768+no FSAA+no AF

ah , i rarely play fps'es at high detail

my setup is a p4 2.4b 512mb ddr333 and x700 128mb

hope can at least play low lorh then

oh. then should be ok with medium detail without fsaa, but 512 seems not very enuf for this game.