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Post by
Hyzer
Quick technical question. These are my current specs:
Intel Core2Duo E4300
2GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 4650
Which component would I upgrade for largest performance-to-cost ratio? I would assume adding 2 more sticks of memory would help quite a bit but my processor is also quite low-end (not even being sold any more as far as I know), so I'm wondering if anybody has any input.
Post by
Domoaligato
definitely the ram.
windows 7 will use the full 2 gigs alone without wow running. this means that your entire wow game is running in the page file on the hard drive.
get 4 gigs+ of ram for your system first.
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1515
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Post by
Domoaligato
definitely the ram.
windows 7 will use the full 2 gigs alone without wow running. this means that your entire wow game is running in the page file on the hard drive.
get 4 gigs+ of ram for your system first.
You're right in the sense that more RAM would certainly help, but claiming that Windows 7 alone uses 2GB RAM is laughable.
With almost ten programs open (including numerous Chrome tabs, Ventrilo, Steam and MSN) I'm sitting at 1.97GB memory usage on Windows 7 Ultimate. That's a far cry from 2GB with none running.
It depends on what you have installed and running yes. i agree.
I sit at 1.05GB usage on my notebook with no software running no anitvirus running.
Add my Antivirus and I am at about 1.9GB with nothing opened.
(yes I have exception rules added for my wow directorys and other stuff). Do you have anti-virus? :)
If his pc is a OEM (Dell,HP, Sony Etc...) I will bet that a gig of ram is being used up by the programs that they add to your PC before it ships also.
Every PC is different but you should have 4 gig ram minimum to run wow now. Especially with how cheap ram is now.
Post by
TheReal
Your CPU is a 1.8GHz dual core.
1.8GHz.
That's your bottleneck right there. If you pop
this
bad boy into your motherboard, you'll be like
O.O
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1515
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Post by
Hyzer
Your CPU is a 1.8GHz dual core.
1.8GHz.
That's your bottleneck right there. If you pop
this
bad boy into your motherboard, you'll be like
O.O
Thanks for the suggestion; that looks very nice for the price.
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751546
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