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MrRiplEy[H] · « **Reply #30 on:** January 19, 2008, 12:45:52 AM »

In any case trying to up your ram speed is the biggest waste of money you can imagine. Get a faster cpu for that money and you'll get real returns.

detch01 · « **Reply #31 on:** January 19, 2008, 12:53:43 AM »

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Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
In any case trying to up your ram speed is the biggest waste of money you can imagine. Get a faster cpu for that money and you'll get real returns.

Upping my ram to pc2700 from what it was yielded 4 or 5 fps in a low alt big furball - that's not insignificant. It stands to reason an upgrade from pc2700 to pc3200 will do something similar.

Roscoroo · « **Reply #32 on:** January 19, 2008, 01:03:45 AM »

Hub , about the most you can do is get 3200 ram and that 2400+ will OC to 2.1 on air cooling / 2.2-2.3 on water ...the ram helps but the overclock on it from 2.0 is pritty much unoticable and very little gain . you need a 2500+ barton cpu to start getting any gain ... but there so old now unless its near free its better to start saving for a duo core ect .

you should be playing AH deciently with your setup ...(unless your trying to push a lcd monitor to the max)

mrs roo's pc is the same as yours but with a 9550 256 card in it and it runs AH nicely 35 -75 fps on 512 tex, No preload and performance slider at about 2/3 rds up ...(tuned for 512 ram that it has so it runs around 380 mem used and doesnt go over 480ish total used in furballs)

MrRiplEy[H] · « **Reply #33 on:** January 19, 2008, 02:12:07 AM »

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Originally posted by detch01
Upping my ram to pc2700 from what it was yielded 4 or 5 fps in a low alt big furball - that's not insignificant. It stands to reason an upgrade from pc2700 to pc3200 will do something similar.

Unless you installed more ram in the process it's HIGHLY doubtful that happened. You're talking about a 5-10% increase in overall speed and no benchmark ever has been able to show a difference this big even with bigger ram speed difference.

This is a fact and you can look it up on any hardware testing site on the internet.

When your ram runs at the rated speed, it runs at that speed. If you clock ram higher to be async it usually degrades performance nothing else.

hubsonfire · « **Reply #34 on:** January 19, 2008, 07:47:35 AM »

Yeah Rosco, it's not bad at all, for what it is. Maybe nothing will blow up this year, and I can get around to building a new deathstar.