2gigs vs. 1gig

Tests: 2gigs vs. 1gig

I'm tired of hearing people argue about games needing more than one gig of memory and having to reply that they don't and you won't notice the difference. I recently decided to run some tests and see if what I was saying is true. Here is what I did and what I got:

Method:

I ran two games for my little test: Battlefield 2, a game which is often said to take 2 gigabytes of memory and UT2K4, my favorite game, generally acknowledged to run fine on one gig of memory. I started up the system and then opened up BF2 and loaded the last map, whatever it's called, can't remember. The I noted the result and then did the same for UT2K4 on AS - Mother Ship. I played both games a little to see if there was any stuttering. Finally, rebooting was in order and so I did. Took out a gig and ran the same tests. Pretty self-explanatory.

Here are the specs of the system I used for testing:

MSI K8N NeoII Platinum

AMD Athlon64 3200+ Winchester core

Built by ATi Radeon 9800pro

2X Maxtor 160gig HDDs, RAID-0

Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2ZS

1 gigabyte/2 gigabytes of system memory, PC3200

Nothing was overclocked for these tests.

Results:

2GB System Memory:

BF2

Map loading time: 48.19S +/- 1s

No stuttering

UT2K4

Map loading time: 26.82.82s +/- 1s

No stuttering

1GB system Memory:

BF2

Map loading time: 55.41s +/- 1s

No stuttering

UT2K4

Map loading time: 31.35s +/- 1s

No stuttering

1GB system Memory, less processes:

BF2

Map loading time: 49.64s +/- 1s

No stuttering

UT2K4

Map loading time: 29.31s +/- 1s

No stuttering

Conclusion:

Well, I was right and wrong at the same time. I didn't really feel a noticeable difference, even though there was in fact one while loading the maps, up to over 7 second difference in fact. UT2004 was impacted, which surprised me. I would never have thought that a game which seemed to use less than a gig was actually affected when memory was added. Now, while doubling up on memory does produce results, you have to realize that it will hurt your overclockability as well. Also note that there was no stuttering in-game in any case and that closing memory-hogging applications like FAH made a fair difference when running a gig, almost bringing you up to par with double the memory.

If you don't mind paying two times as much on system memory for that 7 second increase when running memory hogging processes and losing overclockability then go for it. Otherwise I would suggest sticking with a gigabyte for now.

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amigo ... qual é a ideia desse topico , esse site é brasileiro , coisas em ingles não tem o menor sentido.

obrigado pela compreensão

hi guy , wich your deal in that's topic, becase that's forum is  brazilian, if you write in english the users aren't going to understand

thanks a lot

PS: caso o user criado esteja de brincadeira aqui irei trancar, espero uma resposta em 24h

ps²: malz pelo ingles

pelo que li, ele tá fazendo uma comparação de um pc com 1GB de ram VS 2GB Ram, usando como base o BF2 e UT2K4 como referencia pra testa, tipo de um review ou benchmark

ps:

acho que o correto seria "if you write in enlgish the users aren't going to understand"

sobvre o review eu entendi ... vlw gonnaryder

mas postar coisa em ingles ... sem escrever nada em pt não rola por aki

.... vlw pelo ingles já editei :d

para mim, um jogo rodar bem quanto maior for a memória melhor será o desempenho dele, juntamente com a placa de video ajudando na perfomance dos gráficos.

Dude I do not understand anything to this site is Brazilian, we do not understand your lingua.Tente use some kind of translator, as eu.

Cara eu não entendo nada , este site é brasileiro, não entendemos sua lingua.Tente utilizar algum tipo de tradutor como eu.

Hello!

Are you could post tests with program FRAPS?

Test will show the FPS(Frames per Second) of the game(with 1GB, and without 1GB)

Or, makes a benchmark how... 3DMARK Vantage with 2GB Memory, and with 1GB Ram Memory.

PS: No game stuttering in both cases, not means exactly same FPS performance.

OBS: Gonnaryder Corrige meu ingrês ai hehehehe..

Daew blza,tenho um pente de memória de 1gb e vou comprar outro de 1gb tbm só q PC6400 será q tem como fazer dual channel,pq a outra memória q tenho é PC5200 eu acho mais as duas são DDR2 tudo certinho,será q esse PC6400 e PC5200 interfere em fazer dual channel.Vlwww galera t+.Obrigado pra quem me responder aew.blza flww

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Dude I do not understand anything to this site is Brazilian, we do not understand your lingua.Tente use some kind of translator, as eu.

Cara eu não entendo nada , este site é brasileiro, não entendemos sua lingua.Tente utilizar algum tipo de tradutor como eu.

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não sei qual foi a intenção mas ..... sem brincadeirinhas hein

pra fazer dual channel vc deve ter a mesma frequencia e latencia

não importa marca ou modelo .... se souber configurar isso na bios ....pode usar

caso não ... melhor comprar  identicas

mim nao quer usa meu engles agora  :wink:

com o google fico sem sentido paks... mais deu pa entende  :biggrin:

:confused: Hey, friend, do not understand what the point of this topic, no!

Was to know how many gigas is better?

Are you Brazilian or what?

In my opinion, the more gigas, better system performance

Next time, post in the Portuguese language if possible

Here we are Brazilians, not foreigners, speak?

Moderator, I better lock the topic!

Moderador, acho melhor trancar o tópico!

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Hello!

Are you could post tests with program FRAPS?

Test will show the FPS(Frames per Second) of the game(with 1GB, and without 1GB)

Or, makes a benchmark how... 3DMARK Vantage with 2GB Memory, and with 1GB Ram Memory.

PS: No game stuttering in both cases, not means exactly same FPS performance.

OBS: Gonnaryder Corrige meu ingrês ai hehehehe..

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a pedido:

Could you post the tests with a program like FRAPS?

Tests will show the FPS(Frames per Second) of the game(with 1GB, and without 1GB)

Or, make a benchmark in 3DMARK Vantage with 2GB Memory, and with 1GB Ram Memory.

PS: If the game don't stutter in both cases, it didn't means exactly the same FPS performance

corrigido!! se alguem quise que eu "ajudo" com a frase é so avisa

ps: Kaiser, se vc quise, pra facilita que outros user, que tem pouco conhecimento em ingles, entendam o tópico, eu posso da uma traduzida no post dele, se quiser, claro

kra eu até quero ...

mas deixa o user se pronunciar .... se ele for mesmo estrangeiro OK .... caso seja "brincadeirinha" .... atitudes serão tomadas

então por hora vamos esperar

Caso encerrado.

Agradeço aqueles que quiseram ajudar no tópico, mas nesse caso pelo menos não é necessário. Visto que esse autor não é algo pra ser levado a sério.

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