All comments/opinions welcome. TIA.
The benefit is not something you can definitely point to and say
"yes, it's changed my life!" But 1Gb gives you lots of elbow room
on your computer. Things tend to load faster (menus etc between
*** sessions) because more things can be retained in RAM, and
modern games with extreme requirements (like Doom3) definitely
feel happier on a system with extra RAM. And if you start messing
about with movies from a digital camera/movie camera then 1Gb is
the minimum I'd recommend.
Put it this way, if money is tight, go for 1x512 now and wait
until you can afford another stick. But don't get seduced by the
fancy memory speeds which promise you the earth. Having tried
several types in a quest for high fsb speed I'd rather have 1024Mb
of average RAM than 512Mb of the fast stuff... which generally
just encourages you to overclock until your box falls over :-)
Andrew McP
Always go for more ram if you can, it just makes things smoother in
everything (XP, games, business apps), faster load times, less (or no) disk
accessing for the page file, run more apps at once and so on.
C.
1GB and loving it :)
