Better RAM, better performance?

ponken

Hello,



First of all, here the hardware Im using:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ (2,9Ghz 2 cores)
Nvdia Geforce 9600 GT (1Gb memory)
DDR2 4GB RAM <b>266Mghz</b>


I can run NS2 on low settings and a low resolution with about 50 FPS in the waiting room, 20-30FPS during non-fights and 10-20 during fights.

I understand that a lot of NS2 performance has to do with the processor, but I am not going to do any costly upgrade or buy a new computer. What I would be willing to buy though, is new RAM. 266Mghz seems very slow, but I don't know if this would actually improve performance. Every other game/application I use runs fine.

Soo, would upgrading my RAM to something with ~800 Mghz improve performance ?

Thanks in advance

Dghelneshi

RAM speed usually doesn't make much of a difference, even though it could be different in NS2. It could improve performance, but I think it is not worth it to waste money on an old system. DDR2-RAM is also quite expensive now because it's been out of production for years.

You need to be aware that the RAM you are using (and have to use due to the motherboard's slots) is DDR2. There is no DDR2 RAM with 800MHz clock speed. What you might mean is DDR2-800. It gets a bit confusing because there are actually quite a lot of ways to specify RAM speed. For reference: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR2_SDRAM#Chips_and_modules" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR2_SDRAM#Chips_and_modules</a>

ScardyBob

Save your money. If you want to play NS2 well, you'd be best served to save up for a better computer.

MOOtant

DDR2 is not worth it, you need fast DDR3 (not just any DDR3).

Obraxis

That machine is about 6 years old I think tech-wise? Bit old for most modern games now.