02-04-2005, 10:18 AM
nobbie,Feb 4 2005, 11:46 AM Wrote:Thanks! Ok, so RAM seems to be cruicial. Has anybody here made a RAM upgrade from 512 MB to 1024 MB RAM for WOW and can confirm a significant boost in overall game performance?
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I can only help you with my gaming experience as I had already upgraded to 1024 MB when I began to play WoW, but I must say I dont have any kind of problems, even in high populated areas. It does take a while to load all data when I log on into a high populated area, but when moving around, I dont notice any kind of problems.
I have a Radeon 9600 card, but I use overall highest setting, so there shouldnt be a speed difference to your graphic card with your settings.
As for having to buy old DDR-266 RAM, it is not so. You can buy modern DDR-400 RAM or faster to use on a later computer upgrade. It will work at 266 in your computer, due to BIOS settings, but may be used later in faster systems. The only problem that may arise, is that both memory modules dont like each other, but that problem may happen even if both are the same speed.