2GB or 4GB RAM?

Aercy

Aercy

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I am building a system for using 1 year only. It's going to have a Phenom II Quad Core & ATI HD 5770. The system will be gaming purpose & I shall play games such as GTA IV, SC: Convictions, AC2 etc @ highest possible settings on 19" Monitor @1440x900 res.

Should I go for 2GB RAM or 4GB RAM? I will stick to DDR2 cuz I won't use any components from this system for the next one after a year.

1x 2GB DDR2,
2x 1GB DDR2
or 2 x 2GB?

I want GTA IV to run as smoothly as possible.
 
well i play most games at 1920x1080 and have 2gb ram without any problem ! but 4gb ram will be recommended ! if you have a very tight budget then buy 2gb otherwise 4gb is the way to go !
 
buddingwhizkid said:
well i play most games at 1920x1080 and have 2gb ram without any problem ! but 4gb ram will be recommended ! if you have a very tight budget then buy 2gb otherwise 4gb is the way to go !
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Thanks for the reply.
 
if u are using win xp then 2GB will do just fine but if u are going to use win 7 or win vista then 4 gb will definitely improve the performance of you'r pc . As you mentioned in your post that u just want to use this pc for only a year then why don't you buy some second hand ram memory from techenclave members market .
 
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aercy said:
I am building a system for using 1 year only. It's going to have a Phenom II Quad Core & ATI HD 5770. The system will be gaming purpose & I shall play games such as GTA IV, SC: Convictions, AC2 etc @ highest possible settings on 19" Monitor @1440x900 res.

Should I go for 2GB RAM or 4GB RAM? I will stick to DDR2 cuz I won't use any components from this system for the next one after a year.

1x 2GB DDR2,
2x 1GB DDR2
or 2 x 2GB?

I want GTA IV to run as smoothly as possible.
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If it is GTA IV it has to be 2 * 2 GB, I can easily see my system going around 2.5 GB with this game running.(though my graphics memory is 1 GB too)

So 2 * 2 it is, no second thoughts about it.
 
atheistindian said:
if ur operating system is 32 bit then u cant use 4gb
in case of win7 64 bit then i recommend u to buy 2 x 2gb
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Not necessarily.the limitation of a 32-bit OS is that it can't allocate more than 2gB of memory for a process.So if u are using xp with 2+gb of RAm u will only see about 2.7 gb of useful RAm coz the rest 700 mb is reserved for windows kernel.win 7 ultimate 64-bit supports 128 gb ram max.so if u are planning to use this for 1 year i would suggest to go for 2x2 GB ddr2 or 2+1 GB ram if u are planning to use xp.1yr later u can sell them off without much of a loss as ddr2 will be near extinct by then and the price of 2ndhand ddr2 ram will be more than that of new ddr3:D
 
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