HL2 and 512 or 1024 MB RAM ?

[XiroKe]

Can you mix DDR and SDDR ram? I'm not expert, so this may be a terribly dumb quesion.

 

[Gossoon]

Holy crap. Where did the post counts go?

And vegeta, I like your avatar

And Frank, I have the same system as you.

 

[Vegeta897]

Can you mix DDR and SDDR ram? I'm not expert, so this may be a terribly dumb quesion.

*GASP*

Do... do you dare?

WHO KNOWS WHAT COULD HAPPEN!!

(lol actually I really don't know anything about that, sorry)

 

[serum.157]

you can never have enough memory. the more the better. in my opinion you should get ATLEAST a gig of ram. it is not expensive, so get as much as you can.

 

[kelerain]

Can you mix DDR and SDDR ram? I'm not expert, so this may be a terribly dumb quesion.

NO. Check your mother board specs for what it supports. Some motherboards could 'support both' but never at the same time.

 

[Mujuro]

Get as much RAM as you can get and boost your E-Penis today!

 

[Kalath]

Can I check which type of RAM I got without opening the cover? I'm kinda lazy, you know.

 

[Kamakiri]

u lazy biatch. open the cover. Us geeks usually love doing that. Makes us feel we know what we are doing...

 

[Platinum]

Get as much RAM as you can get and boost your E-Penis today!

HAHAHAHAHA ... that was funny as hell ... nice ...

1 gig

 

[GaryMcT]

You will get the highest resolution textures if you have a gig of system RAM (and a reasonably recent video card.) We drop the textures a mipmap level if you have 512MB.

Gary
Valve

 

[koncept]

did you say 1 gig? lmao, 2 GIG MOFO

 

[redrain85]

Going from 512 MB to 1 GB made a HUGE difference for loading times in Far Cry. You can probably expect the same for HL 2. More memory is always better.

 

[poseyjmac]

People just get so crazy, and instantly think that it would be better to buy 1024 for HL2.

A huge difference my eye.
Games aren't memory intensive...

you sound like someone who has 512 ram. depending on the game it definately helps a lot. games will see a load time decrease, not to mention elimination of that annoying jerkiness you get at the beginning of every level.

and when exiting out of games back to windows, theres a definite difference.

 

[Subatomic]

DO NOT GET MORE THAN 2 STICKS OF RAM. THIS SLOWS THE SPEED OF YOUR RAM DOWN.

Your options are:
256x2
512+256 :|
512x2
1024x2 :E
512x1
256x1

 

[Ownzed]

DO NOT GET MORE THAN 2 STICKS OF RAM. THIS SLOWS THE SPEED OF YOUR RAM DOWN.

Your options are:
256x2
512+256 :|
512x2
1024x2 :E
512x1
256x1

You forgot 2048x2 and 128 and 64 and 32 lol.

 

[mannyfresh027]

... Your VM is 1.5GB or your Physical RAM is 1.5GB?

Your pagefile should always be more than your RAM.

 

[OrphanBoy]

To hell with the pagefile - what a waste of hard disk space! With 1.5Gb or RAM, who *needs* virtual memory?? I'm not gonna chew up 3 gig of space for a 1.5 gig hibernation file + 1.5 gig swap file!

Mines at 200 megs btw just for the sake of it.

 

[Sashq]

OK guys. Toaday i have buyed another 512 MB of RAM, so now i have 1024 MB and the difference in HL2 is really huge. No i can run with HIGH World and Model details and i have much more less stuttering. Its really great now !!

 

[Alig]

If not upgrade for HL2, upgrade for other games...1gb memory never goes a miss with many of the latest games.