Bought a 512 MB stick of RAM today and put it in. I must say, it sure has helped my system quite a bit. For example: With the Half Life 2 demo, it was recomended that I play the game at a Medium setting with most of the advanced options. Before, when I set it on high, it lagged quite a bit. However, after I put the new RAM stick in, the HL2 demo recomended that I play the game on the high setting, and not the Medium like it used to recomend. When I actually played on the high setting, there was zero lag. I never knew a $30 piece of RAM could help a computer run so well...
Well, it's a 512MB stick of ram... not excactly small. Gotta remember, a stock PC will probably have 512MB... maybe a gig at most. Assuming a standard PC has a gig, you added 50%. I remember the days when 128 would cost like $100.
hehe even then you lot got it cheap GP For us over here it was pretty much £1 per mb so a 128mb stick would have cost us £128 (about $200 -_-) For gaming though it is good to have 1gb, it's not too handy for everything else except for maybe the home user who wants media player open and word, excel and other junk at the same time without it lagging out but yeah you will notice a small difference between 512 - 1024, but you would have noticed a much bigger difference going from 256 - 512
Could I notice a difference from 1 GB to 2GB, Legit? I'm thinking about adding a 1 GB Corsair stick, and didn't know if it would be a big difference at all.
The difference will be there, whether you will notice it or not is a bit umm ... depends what you're doing with it, but it's quite unlikely from 1gb - 2gb you will actually be able to see any improvement unless you're doing something uber-demanding like maybe playing CS Source whilst watching a DVD on your TV out and running something else on a third screen. No harm in bunging it in there anyway though, the more the merrier
Yeah, going from 512 MB to 1GB helped quite a bit with other games as well. I can run Doom 3 on the highest settings, I can run Battlefiled 2 on the highest of settings with a little lag in the beginning, and WoW doesn't lag as much as it used to.
If you guys start doing serious photoshopping, 1 GB is a life saver. When you start scanning at 600 DPI and then adding layers, the file can easily get over 100MB in no time.
I upgraded from 256 to 768 this weekend (added a 512 stick). I've noticed a big difference in how much faster the computer boots up, not to mention some of my games running smoother.
I didn't really update per sé, but my old laptop had 128 and my current computer has 1024 (also, the old one was a P3 and this one is an Athlon64). And I used the old one, 16 MB emulated video card and all, for 3D and design stuff, so you could imagine the torture. Changing machines was quite a necessity. It felt like when I went from a 286 to a K6 in 1999.
a 133 which still runs was my source of pc up until next week last year.....so i got a amd64 3000 i wanna upgrade also, and heres the deal the system came with a 90 day warranty on it(pc came from futureshop/who is owned by best buy) and we bought an 3 year warranty on top of it..... now there on the side of the pc is a 5 inch handle to open up the side, the panel just comes off...and on the endo f this panel, was a warranty void sticker.... so natually without noticing i opened it up so my question is.....with this sticker void, will it render the 90 day warranty void, or will it void the 3 year one too.....i remember the 3 year one covered upgrades too
You'd have to check what kind of upgrades it covered. It might have meant upgrades performed by them, or things like USB hard disks, but nothing internal - Check the small print I'd imagine however, tha you may well be buggered on the warranty
oh thats great news.....lol........i think its still good...i rad the fine print(damm it was small) and it seemed all good....................
