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Corsair Memory has a nice PDF available where they discuss the relationship between a systems memory amount and its performance advantages.
Quote:
“The performance increase realized in real-world applications like Battlefield 2 and Adobe Premier Effects elements indicate that the current generation of enthusiast systems will certainly benefit from the selection of 2GB memory arrays. These benefits will become greater in the next six months as new memory-intensive applications and games are brought to market,” the article concludes. -- Read More!
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I saw that earlier, it helped actually more than I thought it would. I really didn't think there was going to be much of any difference with that extra GB. But, it did really only help in like 2 or 3 apps that they tested.
I really think 1GB is the perfect amount for 75% of people, the perfect balance between price and performance.
I agree, but with games like BF2, F.E.A.R. and games in the future really taking advantage of 2GB it is a good investment. You can't even run BF2 at high settings well without 1.5GB of RAM. Going with 2GB would be better for the obvious reason that it is more RAM and so you can buy just two identical 1Gb sticks for dual-channel.
It may even be a good idea for people building new systems that cannot afford 2GB at the moment to just buy a 1GB stick. You won't be able to run dual channel and timings on 1GB sticks are slightly worse then those for 512MB sticks, but you get the added benefit of being able to just add another stick later as opposed to running 4x512MB.
i have a venice. but more important every nforce 4 mother board in stores today still to this day lock ddr 333 when useing all 4 slots. that has not changed. Cant read the manufacture notes ? Show me one board that says it will stay ddr 400 with all 4 sticks installed .
AMD engineers promised to eliminate this problem in the new Venice core and they did keep their word. Athlon 64 processors based on Venice can work with four single-side DDR400 SDRAM modules without any limitations, and if there are double-side DDR400 SDRAM DIMMs installed, they can work at 400MHz with 2T timing.
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