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RE: Ram for dolphin or video card - SantaC - 07-08-2009
no point at all. Most of the speed is based on your CPU.
RE: Ram for dolphin or video card - gcp111 - 07-08-2009
(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.
RE: Ram for dolphin or video card - boogerlad - 07-08-2009
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.
RE: Ram for dolphin or video card - gcp111 - 07-08-2009
(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.
RE: Ram for dolphin or video card - cmccmc - 07-08-2009
if dolphin uses 1gb of memory how does it run flawlessly for me with 384mb
RE: Ram for dolphin or video card - Chaoscode - 07-08-2009
I would go for ram and 64bit os. get like 8 gigs. I upgraded to 8gigs for about 70$
RE: Ram for dolphin or video card - gcp111 - 07-08-2009
(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
RE: Ram for dolphin or video card - DragonSlayer - 07-08-2009
(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
RE: Ram for dolphin or video card - boogerlad - 07-08-2009
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.
RE: Ram for dolphin or video card - DragonSlayer - 07-08-2009
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
