I-ram

[margav]

Im thinking about buying i-ram rev 1.3. Though I am not near my pc (in another country) I want to know how much space does bf2 take ( and if possible the individual space of AF and SF).

Will I-ram fasten load times and/or increase fps if I record with fraps?

thx

[mlkmnz]

Re: I-ram

It appears to speed up load times but they dont mention FPS. I wouldnt have thought so personally, that comes down to graphics card primarily, the stuff like RAM and to a lesser extent CPU.

http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2480

[UltrAdamSki]

Re: I-ram

Im thinking about buying i-ram rev 1.3. Though I am not near my pc (in another country) I want to know how much space does bf2 take ( and if possible the individual space of AF and SF).

Will I-ram fasten load times and/or increase fps if I record with fraps?

thx

to anser your question my bf2 folder is 3.73gb which inludes SF, AF, EF but i have 64 size version of a lot of maps, so yours may be less.

my SF folder is 828mb, again including 64 size maps

not sure on AF or EF as they are kinda intergrated within BF2

have you seen the youtube video with i-ram booting up windows, insane!!

it will speed up map load times tremendously and when you have to optimize video settings

adam

[Heavy552 AWG]

Re: I-ram

I will wait until I-ram is at least 8 Gig and a little better in cost.

I do look forward to the almost instant load times. Too many servers are loading me last these days where I used to be first.

[margav]

Re: I-ram

There is a version with 16 gigs available, and for the 5 inch bays, but they cost about 1 000 GBP (without ram) and they are for sata

[Heavy552 AWG]

Re: I-ram

There is a version with 16 gigs available, and for the 5 inch bays, but they cost about 1 000 GBP (without ram) and they are for sata

Attractive I think but the cost is not worth it yet. Imagine a IRam booting into windows like instantly and hard drives retired in favor of memory that does not have moving parts.

If money was not an object I probably would have it on the machine in order to get faster loading on Bloatware 2

[margav]

Re: I-ram

It installs windows xp in 2 mins instead of 40 usual hehe

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=6200&page=5&search=i-ram

[mlkmnz]

Re: I-ram

Wait a little while longer (next year) and hard drives will be hybrids with solid state memory built into them....

[Roger Smith]

Re: I-ram

Wait a little while longer (next year) and hard drives will be hybrids with solid state memory built into them....

ive heard this is what we have really been waiting for.

[margav]

Re: I-ram

Nooo, you dont get it, they will have a bigger cache, much bigger, but you can not compare them to solid state storage.

[venny]

Re: I-ram

its way above my budget. and its overkill. its sure is fantastic. but its like using this to run bf2.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/02/nvidia-quadro-plex-1000-goes-nuts-with-80-billion-pixels-per-sec/

[Roger Smith]

Re: I-ram

its way above my budget. and its overkill. its sure is fantastic. but its like using this to run bf2.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/02/n...ixels-per-sec/

quatros are for workstations, they donte ven perform all that well in games man.

Nooo, you dont get it, they will have a bigger cache, much bigger, but you can not compare them to solid state storage.

you cant compair the performance or the price, both huge!