144348-ram-upgrade

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The mistake is thinking your GPU matters the most in a MMO, getting 50fps+ with my old 660ti still in.

Edited October 20, 2015 by Naix


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Unless you're replacing it with an i7 your CPU will probably do. i7 are great for MMOs due to the high progessor use. SSDs are fantastic but you wont get much use while in game. The game will load very quickly, for me it's near instant while loading and exiting. SSDs are mainly used for their low access time, since you rarely get bulk transfer of files while playing a game, during play most assets are already loaded into ram. When you have RAM it should be matched pairs. If you had 8Gb for example you would pair them as 4GB x 2. This way you can take advantage of dual channel. Instead of accessing data from one stick of RAM per request it can do two. If the capacity doesn't match them obviously it can't operate in dual channel since they wont have complimenting data on each stick. Just because it has a higher clock frequency doesn't mean it is better. It all depends in the timings. It's usually shown as x-x-x-X. The last one is usually bigger. The lower these values the better too. You shoulld also be careful where the RAM came from. If it was a server it might have been using buffered RAM. These sticks have parity checks, to check the data is fine and not corrupt when recalled. If there's a data error in a server that's bad, in a home PC, not so much. The RAM will work but buffered RAM is much slower due to the parity checks. You could considering getting a higher value of RAM since even though programs wont use it Windows will and load it with data from the hard disk that it thinks you might ask for. This caching means that things will load faster because they've already been loaded into memory already. If Windows needs it for programs it frees it up.


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