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Ram for a dell!! (Read 190 times)

Mar 7^th, 2005 at 12:20pm

awecrj200 Ex Member
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Hey I got a dell 2400 with a celeron 2.2ghz,40gb hd,and i think 256mb or 128mb ram and I was thinking of ordering some ram (2 sticks of 512mb ram) and I was wondering if that would boost the performance of the computer because I really want to use scenery at high levels like the terrain texture high I can use perfectly with my current configuration but if I put on some AI traffic and dense scenery it goes at like half a frame per second so I was curious a gig of ram would help it?

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Reply #1 - Mar 7^th, 2005 at 12:51pm

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I'm guessing with a low spec dell such as this the power of the graphics chip will be small to non-existent. I doubt 2 more sticks of RAM (1Gb) would make a huge amount of difference on its own if you have no graphics card capable of using it. Upgrading the RAM to about 512Mbs & upgrading the graphics card would probably be the most cost effective way to make an improvement.

But you haven’t got the best of starting points!

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Reply #2 - Mar 8^th, 2005 at 9:29am

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This space reserved for post purchase after thoughts when a Dell used to look so good. Roll Eyes

Mainboard: Asus P5K-Premium, CPU=Intel E6850 @ x8x450fsb 3.6ghz, RAM: 4gb PC8500 Team Dark, Video: NV8800GT, HDD: 2x1Tb Samsung F3 RAID-0 + 1Tb F3, PSU: Antec 550 Basiq, OS: Win7x64, Display: 24" WS LCD

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Reply #3 - Mar 8^th, 2005 at 11:33am

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I find it so hard to break the news Cry

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Reply #4 - Mar 11^th, 2005 at 8:03pm

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No problem thanks a lot! Grin

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Reply #5 - Mar 12^th, 2005 at 12:46am

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mind you, i'm the right person (almost) for you. i gots a 2400 w/ P4 2.6 Ghz.
if you can believe it, a gig of ram did make a nice improvement. i bought 2 kingston 512mb 333DDR ram (i think thats right) and it picks up where the processor and graphics leave off.

I managed to boost my graphics to a higher level, although there is still room for improvement.

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Reply #6 - Mar 12^th, 2005 at 7:33am

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More RAM will not give as good an end result as say a 6 series Nvidia card !

I've recently upgraded a mates PC, 2.4 Celeron, 1Gb pc2100 DDR RAM and a 6600GT. - His old spec was 256MB RAM, FX5600 card.

FS9 runs roughly twice as fast at double the rez of the old setup !

No need to ditch that Celeron, yet. Wink

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