Im gonna buy a few gigs of ram, something idk a whole lot about. How many gigs would u reccomend to play cod 4 or cs:s, and run programs like autodesk maya and adobe after effects? im thinking of getting either 2 or 4... and is there a difference in ram speeds?

If your running Vista:

32-bit: 3gigs
64-bit: 4gigs.

I think I'm right it saying that Vista can only take a max of 4 gigs of ram so anymore is pointless. XP I don't know.

Hey i have 10 gigs its speedhack xD ... But u need to have a good computer overall if u wanna run those programs.

Just buy 4 Gigs of DDR2 800 RAM. It´s enough for the games and the programs.

@ Myst: 64bit-Systems can handle up to 128 Gigs of RAM

thx. atm its 32 bit running, xp, i have vista but just havn't bothered intalling yet. im thinking of getting a quad core amd phenom tho.

forget amd, get intel,

and i have XP 32bit and 4 gigs of ram, it uses only 3,25gb, but its still better than 3Gigs, and its for future...

ramspeed...mh,not really, if you dont overclock, but i recommend 800mhz

i beg your pardon?

forget it, amd sucks

dito

pentium quad

games havent even figured out how to use all its processing power yet you wont have to upgrade for a while

Sorry, it's not the games that haven't figured out how to use it, it's just Windows.

No Hyper-threading support.

erm, yes, GTA4 and Far Cry 2 are using 4 cores

very funny to see, that my friend has a better graphic card but only a dual core and the game lagged around

they still don't use it to its full potential


with better programming technique it shouldn't lag on a dual the problem is they make one of the processors do most of the work and hardly delegate any calculations to the other one

Ijustsayonething I7