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Old 10-03-09, 09:54 AM   #20
onelifecrisis
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Okay here's a question for you Arclight. If you could choose between these, which would you choose?

1) 2GB RAM with a 640GB HDD (7200rpm, 16MB cache)
2) 4GB RAM with a 250GB HDD (7200rpm, 8MB cache)

Bearing in mind that for me, the extra space on the HDD is not of benefit but the extra speed given by that space (and by the extra cache) is appealing.

In my experience many games do not make good use of RAM. They tend not to preload very well, and will happily thrash the HDD when data is needed, in spite of the fact that I have (typically) a spare 1 Gb of RAM sat around doing nothing (which could have been preloaded with the data beforehand). Because of this, I'm inclined to go with option 1. Option 1 is also a bit cheaper than option 2.
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