will increasing memory improve performance?

-Pv- · 04-02-07, 05:57 PM

Two gigs is the best RAM solution for playing games on XP. It doesn't help game speed as far as the 3D animation though. CPU, mainboard design, and graphics card drive performance more than anything else. What it will mostly do is speed up load times where disk cache might be used. You cannot get rid of the use of disk cache in XP (or any Win OS) but you can reduce it a lot. Also, if your graphics card is AGP, those cards use system ram for aperature. The more system RAM you have, the more you have left for the software when the graphics card grabs it. If your RAM speed is less than 400 you'll suffer a bit there.
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04-02-07, 05:57 PM	#1
-Pv- The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,434 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Two gigs is the best RAM solution for playing games on XP. It doesn't help game speed as far as the 3D animation though. CPU, mainboard design, and graphics card drive performance more than anything else. What it will mostly do is speed up load times where disk cache might be used. You cannot get rid of the use of disk cache in XP (or any Win OS) but you can reduce it a lot. Also, if your graphics card is AGP, those cards use system ram for aperature. The more system RAM you have, the more you have left for the software when the graphics card grabs it. If your RAM speed is less than 400 you'll suffer a bit there. -Pv-