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 Post subject: Is It Time To Add More RAM?
 Post Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:03 pm 
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http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ram-memory-upgrade,2778-9.html

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Based on our measurements and impressions (and taking falling prices into account), we thoroughly recommend a minimum RAM size of 8 GB. Using 12 or 16 GB only makes sense if you're planning on using 4 GB of more of this higher amount as a RAM disk, helping accelerate the reading and writing of temporary files. This applies equally to file compression, video encoding, and heavy image editing.

We saw this pay dividends in GTA IV, for example.


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 Post subject: Re: Is It Time To Add More RAM?
 Post Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:09 pm 
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This article is correct in the gaming department for sure... I've been running 4gb or ram for about 2 years now and in Mass Effect 2 and little in Borderlands I noticed small areas of missing textures or shimmering like the texture was partly but not fully there. I assumed it was nothing more than the AMD video card drivers or the game. So after reading this article I upgraded to 8Gb and no longer have shimmering or the odd missing texture in either game. As an extra added bonus I disabled my swap file in Windows7 64bit and no longer have the odd stutter in games caused by the hard disk loading stuff to the game.

If you get get at least 6Gb, it'll improve graghics and disabling swap file will improve game play. It even improves load times and ram is cheap at this time.


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