Ram question

[Vigilante]

Hi.
I'm pretty much rebuilding my system. I've got a new mobo and proc on the way ( MSI K8N Neo Plat.) and an Athlon 64 3000+. I want to know, should I reuse my 768 megs of ddr333 or buy 512 megs or 1 gig of ddr400? How much more performance would i see with 1 gig of 400, how much less with 512? Thanks

 

[bosox188]

Less than 512? With a gig you'd see a lot more, definitely go with a gig.

 

[blackeye]

Loading times will most likely increase with one gig. I know mine did when I upgraded from 512 to one gig.

 

[filipeg165]

well mine didnt, i had 512, loading times in far cry were really slow, then i upgraded to 1gb, the bar just flies!!! (well not actually lol but its a lot faster)

Also, having 512 more helped me with the graphics, i now can raise the resolution a bit (with my crappy 5600...) i just hope to raise it a lot more when i get my 9800pro!

 

[ewilson248]

You will see improvements by doing both: going from 333 to 400 bus and going from either 512/768 to 1GB. how much is the 64 mil question, for me I did both at once: everything seemed to be quicker: OS boot up, game loading, benchmarks too.
how much is hard to quantify. But I will say this, when I do multiple performance upgrades at the same time, speed or size, the improvements seem to feed off of each other.

 

[Vigilante]

First 2 responses. I didnt want to know how much ram to go with..I wanted to know if I would see a performance decrease if i go from 768 ddr333 to 512 ddr400

 

[Asus]

DDR400 will be consistantly ahead of DDR333 in most cases but by how much?
You will take dips with 512MB memory in games like Farcry and Battlefield (maybe even D3).