I was thinking about upgrading from 512MB of RDRAM to 1.5GB of RDRAM. Is it worth it just for playing games and video editing?
RDRAM Upgrade...Is it worth it?
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Phantasm66
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well, for games, not really. but video editing is another matter.
Well, i'm talking about games like NOLF2 where the full install is 1.2GB. Wouldn't it be quicker loading?
Mictlantecuhtli
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It won't affect your loading speed, because games (in general) don't load everything into memory at first. The speed is limited by your hard disk drive. Then again, if you have enough memory, you could use a ramdisk 
Ramdisk? i never heard of it what is it?
Vehementi
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In short, it's allocating a chunk of your memory to be like a HDD partition, in that you save files to it and they're permanently in until you restart. Common sense tells me that the RamDisk program actually saves the information to the HDD upon shutdown/program close and reloads it once it's started again, but I've never used one. Good if you're accessing certain files quite frequently. Or, if you're insane, and you have a system with 1+GB of memory and an old, say, 500MB hard drive, you can use it just to increase your hard drive space. It can really speed up the performance of, like a server for example, if say every employee in the building needs to get one required file, the admin sh/would put it on a Ramdisk.
ok i see, i do like to do video editing. so i assume it will help there right?
ok thanx i still have some money left over from the Dell 50k Prize i won so cool.
actually thats what i am doing i'm going from 512 to 1.5. unfortunately i cant put 2gb in this computer. 1066Mhz RDRAM only can be put in as 1.5GB max
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