Ram for dolphin or video card

[SantaC]

no point at all. Most of the speed is based on your CPU.

[gcp111]

(07-08-2009, 03:51 AM)nosound97 Wrote: No, I think it uses near 1 GB, because of "Failed to grab 1 GB of contignuos memory" or something like this, I could be mistaken.

It doesn't actually allocate that memory, it just, for some reason, tries to page it.

[boogerlad]

Windows and it's paging is sometimes retarded. I have 1.5gb left, and it starts paging to hdd. WTH? A new heatsink will cost less than more ram and give you better benefits, mainly quieter and cooler.

[gcp111]

(07-08-2009, 09:47 AM)boogerlad Wrote: Windows and it's paging is sometimes retarded. I have 1.5gb left, and it starts paging to hdd.

Almost all paging OSes do that. They conserve physical memory, don't ask me why.

[cmccmc]

if dolphin uses 1gb of memory how does it run flawlessly for me with 384mb

[Chaoscode]

I would go for ram and 64bit os. get like 8 gigs. I upgraded to 8gigs for about 70$

[gcp111]

(07-08-2009, 10:07 AM)cmccmc Wrote: if dolphin uses 1gb of memory how does it run flawlessly for me with 384mb

lern 2 read src

[DragonSlayer]

(07-08-2009, 10:08 AM)Chaoscode Wrote: I would go for ram and 64bit os. get like 8 gigs. I upgraded to 8gigs for about 70$

so you are saying ram is better
and also how do u know if u have a good heatsink

[boogerlad]

as long as it's not the stock heatsink, has copper, heatpipes and is of decent weight/size, it's good. Start learning at http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums.

[DragonSlayer]

a did a bit of overclocking 3 ghz to 3.15 ghz very little right i was scared but when i did and i opened pc up after 20 minute it was warm i never new how hot it was before i only overclocked cpu would that make everthing inside pc hotter cause i was just upgrading ram LOL now i have 4 gb of ram LOL