Increasing RAM

[Ocean]

(06-26-2010, 11:20 AM)TheBboyKnowledge Wrote: I have went from 2GB to 3GB of ram. Of course my laptop moves and boots a little bit faster, but what will this do for dolphin?

Probably nothing, 3-4gb is pretty much the limit at which it will have zero difference at all on dolphin regardless of how fast the RAM is clocked at or what the timings are. Your OS in general will probably run smoother than on 2gb due to more free memory available for background processes, antivirus, if you are multitasking=browser, irc etc.

[NaturalViolence]

Quote:Not many mobos support both ddr2 and ddr3. I have yet to see a laptop supporting both specs. I highly doubt adding more ram will make a significant boost in speed unless you have tons of back ground services running. His real bottle neck is the gpu (mainly this) and cpu.

By not many you mean none right? It's impossible to have ddr2 and ddr3 ram running side by side in the same system unless your system is a heterogeneous system with multiple server nodes.

[obscured]

Nope...remember reading about a mobo that supported both. Haha u sound fancy with that speech but do you really know what your talking? I would presume it wouldnt support both at once yes tho.

[naroth]

i just wanted to put an example about the memory speed, but yeah there are motherboards that support both, like GigaByte GA-P35C-DS3R

[NaturalViolence]

Not at the same time.

[Ocean]

(06-28-2010, 05:22 AM)obscured Wrote: Nope...remember reading about a mobo that supported both. Haha u sound fancy with that speech but do you really know what your talking? I would presume it wouldnt support both at once yes tho.

No, DDR3 and 2 are not compatible. There is absolutely no way to run both at the same time (but there are hybrid mobos that can run either ddr2 memory or ddr3).

DDR3 memory uses less voltage than DDR2, it's transfer bandwidth is many times higher, they have different write latencies, and DDR3 is connected to & accessed directly by the cpu instead of chipset.

It's possible to find motherboards that have slots for both. But you would never be able to use them at the same time

[obscured]

You only reiterated what I said and some stuff that any pc enthusiast already knows. I know a lot about hardware tech. Probably more then most here.

Also, if I remember right (I might be wrong) not all ddr3 memory is controlled by a on cpu die memory controller. I think there are some that are still ran off the NB.

edit: Yep, I remember there were some socket 775 with NB supported ddr3 so, false again....

[madlink1990]

(06-27-2010, 11:27 PM)obscured Wrote: Not many mobos support both ddr2 and ddr3. I have yet to see a laptop supporting both specs. I highly doubt adding more ram will make a significant boost in speed unless you have tons of back ground services running. His real bottle neck is the gpu (mainly this) and cpu.

so would it be more important to upgrade the graphics card, or upgrade to a computer with a better cpu?

I have a 32-bit operating system, with a Nvidia GeForce 7300 graphics card, and 2gb of ram(ddr).

[obscured]

A new build with a current or last gen cpu with 3ghz+ would be preferred with a mid tier last gen gpu. So, neither upgrade would be worth wild for me.

[NaturalViolence]

Quote:I have a 32-bit operating system, with a Nvidia GeForce 7300 graphics card, and 2gb of ram(ddr).

In your case upgrading your gpu, cpu, and os would all give you performance boosts. But upgrading your cpu would give you the most (your cpu is in desperate need of an upgrade).