Well basically, I need to buy some more RAM. ATM I have not a bad setup with my PC, a good motherboard, good case with nice cooling, a PSU that works just fine and a 4850 ATI Radeon. However, my machine is let down by one major factor. ATM i have 3gb of 600Mhz RAM. I need an upgrade

When I play games like Crysis I get a good, steady FPS, but on bad games like WoW, it's awful. I put two and two together, and I presume Crysis pre-loads things, and WoW has to continously load it. So, the card is fine, the motherboard is good, hence,I believe RAM is what is killing my FPS.

I mean, I'm making it sound awful, but it's not THAT bad. In WoW, in one of the major cities, I recieve 30fps, which is great BUT, i know that my card can cruise happily at 60+ in there, if it's backed up by other components. The main problem is the instability. One minute 40fps, take a few paces to the centre of the city, WHAM 20, after 1 hour of this unconstant FPS switching, it starts to screw with your eyes.

Anyway, basically, can you suggest some good, cheap RAM. I'm running 32bit vista, so I presume 4gb is the max? I need something ideal for backing up my card and boosting my FPS to where it should be. Also, when i install my new RAM, should I re-installed windows? (I'm not sure if my old RAM had any weird errors and such *P.S Nor can i do memtest to check*). I hope the community can help here, thanks in advance,
Hethkor

Bump :S Sorry :S

Well, 3gb isn't a bad amount of ram. I know there of several people who run 2gb and they can do everything just fine. Even if you went for 4gb you would only be getting an extra 512mb of usable ram since you have to include your gfx card ram.

My guess is that there is something else holding you back. If you are running DDR1 than it may be time for a system update, otherwise you will just have to live with it.

vista 32bit will not maximize 4gb of ram, instead i would go for 2gb ddr2 800. and the money you save from down grading from 4gb to 2gb, means you can get high quality RAM.

I've just bought http://www.overclockers.co.uk/show [...] -CS&tool=3

It looks good, and I believe the old RAM was faulty anyway. Also, apparently, the fact it was a 2gb stick and a 1gb stick caused it to run in single channel, bottlenecking it's potential. Anyway, I hope this fixes the problem. I've upgraded my mobo already, and that made it marginally better, and the processor seems fine.. Anyway, fingers crossed. If it makes no improvement I'll reformat the PC and maybe go to 64bit.