MrWillz Posted August 23, 2005 Posted August 23, 2005 I am in the mist of making my new gaming system but besides no knowing if I should wait for the new ATI or get the 7800GTX, I am also concerned about weither to get 1gig of ram or 2gigs. As of right now I dont know any games that benefit from 2 gigs of ram but who knows what the near future will hold. By the way the memory I am getting is posted belwo. OCZ Enhanced Latency Series Gold Edition 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Thanks in advance Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DrAgO Posted August 23, 2005 Posted August 23, 2005 if ur gonna overclock and exspect a good clock 1gig, i think battlefield 2 requires 2gig or runs best with 2gig.. cant remember ive got a gig. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsd2005 Posted August 23, 2005 Posted August 23, 2005 I opted for 2 gigs because of some benefit in Photoshop. Who knows what Longhorn or Vista will need in 2006? Battlefield 2 loads and runs smoother with 2 gig, but I'm not a hardcore gamer. My overclock, with 2 gig of Patriot memory, is only about 222 FSB at the default voltages. So with 2 gigs, a 4800+ at the price of a 4400+, stable and fast w/o paging to disk. Stick with 1 gig if you want to overclock. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bobyjo Posted August 23, 2005 Posted August 23, 2005 MrWillz ::If you want a deal, Visiontek has thier X850 XT PE PCIe cards on sale as of now you can get one for $449. The AGP version is $399 if you know anyone that needs one of these. VisionTek Xtasy X850XT PE: If a mid-range video card just wont cut it for you, then maybe this VisionTek Xtasy Radeon X850XT PE is what you need. We reviewed the X850XT version of this card (non-PE) back in March. The VisionTek Radeon X850XT PE consistently delivered impressive performance, even when compared to the 24-pixel pipeline GeForce 7800 GTX. In fact, during game-play it would be impossible to tell which of these two graphics cards you were actually using. I was reading this over at HardOCP and this is pretty amazing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted August 23, 2005 Posted August 23, 2005 1GB will overclock good, but a lot of games (especially if you have a great vid card and can run high resolution with 4xAA and 8xAF etc enabled) now are running best with 2GB of memory OCZ's PC3200 Platinum does 2-3-5-2 and overclocks to about 220, sometimes 230 OCZ's PC4000 does 3-4-8-4 @ 250 (DDR500) and is pretty fantastic stuff, albiet a bit expensive (check the Overclocking Database, 939 thread, near the end for my 2x1024 PC3200 and PC4000 entries) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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