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Article #87643Re: How important is memory
From: Inglo
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 06:15
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 06:15
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On 9/3/2004 4:18 PM Aki Peltola brightened our day with: >"Marshall" <marshall@nospam.com> wrote > > >>True. If you can get framerates and game visuals that are >>acceptable to you, with less RAM, great. I just said that 1GB >>of system RAM is the minimum that *I* would consider, since >>I prefer all the pretties and good framerates as well. YMMV. >> >> > >Of course, if you have video card and CPU powerful enough >to run games with all the highest pretties enabled, why keep >some 512mb RAM as a limitation for good framerates :-) > >I doubt that my rig would run Far Cry smoothly using Highest >details even if I had another 512meg (1gig) stick in my mobo... > > > > Let's see if this make sense, far cry was fine with 512 MB of RAM and my 9600 Pro. When I got a 9800 Pro I had to go out and bump myself up to a gig of RAM. -- History shows again and again How nature points up the folly of men Steve ¤»Inglo«¤ www.inglostadt.com
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