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FredP
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Posted: 5th May 2007 20:46
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My chip came in the mail today so now I have a GB more of RAM.
Now I'm going to celebrate...until my wife-to-be finds out how much I spent...then I am going to celebrate with a black eye.

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halospree
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Posted: 6th May 2007 00:42
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More ram may not always affect performance. If you have 2Gb of Ram and you updgrade to 4GB of Ram you will either see a small perfomance boost or a decrease in gaming performance depending on the CPU and Video Card YOu have. But if you have 256mb, 512mb, or 1GB of Ram you should really think about upgrading to 2GB as 2GB is the ideal amount for gaming, and everything else (Except for major scientifict compucting, here you need at least 32GB lol).

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Seppuku Arts
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Hehe, well I should think about upgrading my RAM soon...Doom 3 has lag, COD 2 has lag... I can't even reach the high number of polygons in the demo of Zbrush...Then again 256 mb ram is so retro its cool.

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FredP
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Posted: 6th May 2007 02:18
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So far my performance on my pc (especially with FPSC) has improved greatly.
I have to get a couple of more things to upgrade my pc to where I want it (provided it doesn't kick the bucket...I got it in February '05 and they don't make 'em like they used to).
I was actually surprised at how easy it was to install the chip.
I just hope it's that easy to install the video card when I get it...and that my motherboard doesn't explode.

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Veron
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Posted: 6th May 2007 08:46
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Video chips are basically the same to install as RAM, depending on whether it's SLI or not. I've got 512MB of RAM now, and i'll probably get another GB soon.


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Mr Makealotofsmoke
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Posted: 6th May 2007 12:49
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im saving up for a 8700 or 8900 with 512mb video ram, or a 8600 with 512mb if they make 1


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Torsten Sorensen
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Posted: 7th May 2007 03:52
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I didn't know there were 8900's


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Mr Makealotofsmoke
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Posted: 7th May 2007 09:13
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they not out yet


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SamHH
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Posted: 9th May 2007 19:50
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anyone know why XP only lets you have 3.25 GB of ram?
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hessiess
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Posted: 9th May 2007 19:59
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Quote: "anyone know why XP only lets you have 3.25 GB of ram?"


becose windows sucks?

if its 32 bit 4gb ram is the maximum, so it should let you use 4gb of ram. you could try it with the ubuntu live cd and see if this complains about the ram

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SamHH
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Posted: 9th May 2007 20:09
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i have 4GB and it always says 3.25
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Benjamin
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Posted: 9th May 2007 20:37
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Quote: "becose windows sucks?"

Compared to what exactly?

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soapyfish
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Because if it's a vacuum cleaner you're comparing it to. Windows really doesn’t suck that much.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA that's so funny my ears hurt just thinking about it.

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hessiess
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its far to expensive. and it continualy crashes, and refuses to shut down, and it has a ridiculas nobber of viroses wen linux has only afew. theres mutch better os's witch are completly free, just you people seem to be verry closed minded.

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soapyfish
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Posted: 9th May 2007 20:53 Edited at: 9th May 2007 20:54
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Quote: "its far to expensive. and it continualy crashes, and refuses to shut down, and it has a ridiculas nobber of viroses wen linux has only afew. theres mutch better os's witch are completly free, just you people seem to be verry closed minded."


To be fair, it's narrow minded to say that about windows. I'm sure plenty of people use it without experiencing continuous crashes and can shut it down just fine. Me being one of those people. I also use OS X. I don't use linux though, that probably makes me very closed minded.

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hessiess
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i ment people who just use windows without trying the alternateves then saying its the best os.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 9th May 2007 21:08 Edited at: 9th May 2007 21:09
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Quote: "ts far to expensive. and it continualy crashes, and refuses to shut down, and it has a ridiculas nobber of viroses wen linux has only afew. theres mutch better os's witch are completly free, just you people seem to be verry closed minded."

Yes it costs money, and I agree it can be a bit expensive. It doesn't continually crash unless you install dodgy software, or use it wrong. It can crash on occasion however, it's not perfect. As for it having a lot of viruses - why does that make it a bad OS? It just means that malware writers like to target the most popular OS.

I've tried Ubuntu, and I still say I prefer Windows. Partially because it can play PC games, but also because it has very good driver support. I compiled an example that uses a popular 3D engine, and under Ubuntu it runs at a fraction of the speed that it does on Windows, even when I have the latest drivers. Of course this might be NVIDIA's fault for making crappy Linux drivers.

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Posted: 9th May 2007 21:27 Edited at: 9th May 2007 21:28
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Quote: "I'm sure plenty of people use it without experiencing continuous crashes and can shut it down just fine. Me being one of those people."


No problems for me yet, either. This PC is about 2 and a half years old now, using Windows XP.

My other PC is about 7 and a half years old, using Windows 98 SE. I've reformatted it once, a few weeks ago.




Anyway, how much RAM do you have now?

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hessiess
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Posted: 9th May 2007 23:19
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it works fine untill i try to get some work done, witch recwires lots of blenders open, then it continualy crashes.

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Jeku
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Posted: 10th May 2007 03:58
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@hessiess - A tip--- use Firefox. It has spell-checking built in

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Phaelax
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Posted: 10th May 2007 05:14
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Quote: "it continualy crashes, and refuses to shut down, and it has a ridiculas nobber of viroses wen linux has only afew"


Mine's crashed maybe once in the past year. And you can't really blame Windows for the amount of Virii. I think the performance of Windows is dependent on the intelligence of its user.


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Who cares about how many viruses are out there. If you are simply careful and don't run suspicious software you're in good shape. I haven't had a virus on this computer yet from what I can remember (it'll be 2 years old this summer), and the most serious windows virus I ever had only made my icons run away from the mouse cursor, however that was about 6 or so years ago.

My Windows has always been stable, I never have any crashing or unexplained shutdowns caused from something in Windows.

Quote: "it works fine untill i try to get some work done, witch recwires lots of blenders open, then it continualy crashes."


What are your system specs, I'd guess it has more to do with lack of memory or CPU cycles than Windows.

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Quote: "and the most serious windows virus I ever had only made my icons run away from the mouse cursor, however that was about 6 or so years ago."


I had that one, too. At about the same time.

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