upgrade RAM or HDD?

[nirvana0001]

Hi guys. I think my tp is kind of slow for battle field 2, so i need to upgrade my system. Should i replace the HHD with 7k100 or upgrade to 2GB RAM? anyone experience with that?

[christopher_wolf]

First, go for the RAM upgrade; you are going to see more of a performance boost with a RAM upgrade than a 5400->7200 HDD upgrade. Especially for a game that is RAM hungry like BF2.

HTH

[ThinkPad]

Agreed, go with RAM first. If its still lagging try a faster drive.

[jaybert]

you think ram is really going to help here? He already have 1gb of ram, I doubt that going to 2gb you're going to see much, if any of an increase.

i would personally go w/ the harddrive upgrade, as there is a noticeable difference between 7200 and 5400rpms.

I dont think either upgrade is going to help you play your game though, its most likely limited by your video card, and theres not much you can do to fix that.

[ThinkPad]

I think the minimum for BF2 is about 128mb video card, so trying to run any higher than minimum would cause lag.

[christopher_wolf]

you think ram is really going to help here? He already have 1gb of ram, I doubt that going to 2gb you're going to see much, if any of an increase.

i would personally go w/ the harddrive upgrade, as there is a noticeable difference between 7200 and 5400rpms.

I dont think either upgrade is going to help you play your game though, its most likely limited by your video card, and theres not much you can do to fix that.

The Video Card will request system memory once the on-board RAM gets comfortably full; the more of that, the better in this case...indeed, there is a drop off in the increase and that depends on what else is going on at the same time and using the memory. BF2 is pretty intense on the resources and I noticed a big jump in performance when I upgraded my memory.

You only notice the difference between the 7200RPM and 5400RPM drives if you are either very perceptive or are shoving huge amounts of files around.

[laz]

More ram. Once you load up the game all the textures, models etc get loaded into ram, so a faster hard drive will probably only speed up load times.

[nirvana0001]

so you guys think that i should go for RAM?
i mean.......is there gonna be a noticeable improvement?
p.s. i overclocked my GPU, and it works pretty cool in the game.

[ThinkPad]

so you guys think that i should go for RAM?

Dont expect any drastic changes. once you hit 1 gig, change variables is not the same as pre 1gig changes. But it might your application.

[christopher_wolf]

so you guys think that i should go for RAM?

Dont expect any drastic changes. once you hit 1 gig, change variables is not the same as pre 1gig changes. But it might your application.

You will pretty much only notice the difference in BF2 or any other resource intense application; for normal work, there isn't much of a benefit in going form 1GB ro 2GB.

[bill bolton]

for normal work, there isn't much of a benefit in going form 1GB ro 2GB.

There is if you have multiple "normal" applications open simultaneously.

Cheers,

Bill

[jaybert]

for normal work, there isn't much of a benefit in going form 1GB ro 2GB.

There is if you have multiple "normal" applications open simultaneously.

Cheers,

Bill

sure, if you have like 4 instances of photoshop running and you're encoding a dvd.

if you're running like word, excel, internet explorer at the same time, you arent going to notice the extra gb of ram, unless you're opening really large files. Its obviously not going to hurt, but the difference really wont be that noticable unless you do something very memory intensive.

[christopher_wolf]

for normal work, there isn't much of a benefit in going form 1GB ro 2GB.

There is if you have multiple "normal" applications open simultaneously.

Cheers,

Bill

True, quite true...

[nirvana0001]

for normal work, there isn't much of a benefit in going form 1GB ro 2GB.

There is if you have multiple "normal" applications open simultaneously.

Cheers,

Bill

wow..that's what i always do......use solid work + burning DVD + music at the same time
and now......should i get kingdom or samsung RAM?