More ram?

[Heatseeker_no.1]

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Right i'v ordered the ram, £22 per 512mb

[<DV8>mrbucket]

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With 2 gigs BF2 loads entirely into memory. Levels will load a *little* bit faster and stuttering is pretty much eliminated. In general, the overall performance and "feel" of the game is much improved. When I went from 1 to 2, after I played for an hour I considered it money very well spent.

If you really want levels to load faster, you'll need a 10k disk like a Raptor OR a RAID setup. A two-disk RAID 0 setup of your average 7200k disks will be approximately 20% faster than the Raptor and give you more bang for your buck in storage size as well, even with no fault-tolerance in the "0" level.

In theory it is true for raid 0. But there is hardly a difference in most cases. If you go with a drive with a 16mb cache on a sata, you will save yourself a ton of money and get a faster transfer, the only thing your missing is the seek time of a 10,000 rpm raptor, which again, is hardly noticeable. The 2 gigs will give a pretty big gain on loads and overall performance.

[Heatseeker_no.1]

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Why doesnt RAID 0 make much of a differance, is it because it would be bottlenecked by the rest of the system?

How about two raptors in RAID 0 ?

And I already have a 8mb cache sata, how much faster is a 16mb?

[-Darkstar10-]

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if you want hookups on ram, order it on ebay let me tell you guys

i just bought a brand new unopened gig of corsair ram for $65 free shipping as well

[NoToRiOuSmInUtE]

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2 GB is need if you want to play the game in absolute MAXIMUM setiings 1600x1200 resolution, I am doing it and the game runs awsome.

[lil_jimmy_norton]

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if you want hookups on ram, order it on ebay let me tell you guys

i just bought a brand new unopened gig of corsair ram for $65 free shipping as well

Ugh, e-bay and important hardware don't mix....

[-Darkstar10-]

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you just gotta make sure you somehow get a warranty in case its DOA, so just becareful what you buy and you'll save money

[WildLegba]

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Would doing a Raid 0 setup mean I would have to re-install windows first, or is there some way of copying the entire hard drive?

There may be a way to setup a RAID without re-installing windows, but if there is I don't know anything about it. The issue as far as I know is that you need to install the third-party RAID controller drivers at the time you install Windows. You'll need to check the specifics of your equipment to be sure of the correct process.

[lil_jimmy_norton]

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Norton Ghost will copy your current drive to a RAID setup.

[Heatseeker_no.1]

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So I wont have to reinstall anything, excellent. For a RAID setup I want a hardware controller right? Does my motherboard have One?

[lil_jimmy_norton]

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So I wont have to reinstall anything, excellent. For a RAID setup I need the controller right? Does my motherboard have them?

Yes it does.

[infectedsoldier]

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Why doesnt RAID 0 make much of a differance, is it because it would be bottlenecked by the rest of the system?

How about two raptors in RAID 0 ?

And I already have a 8mb cache sata, how much faster is a 16mb?

I honestly would say forget a RAID. For the most part you want it if you're doing video editing etc and it'll make a big difference. As for loading times in BF2 I doubt it might make you a few milliseconds faster plus I think it's more a headache etc. Just my two cents. I'd say a SATA 3Gbs would give you almost the same performance for cheaper plus less hassle. I'm always one of the first in and I just run one Raptor with 2GB of Corsair XMS Pro 3500LL.

[lil_jimmy_norton]

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I honestly would say forget a RAID. For the most part you want it if you're doing video editing etc and it'll make a big difference. As for loading times in BF2 I doubt it might make you a few milliseconds faster plus I think it's more a headache etc. Just my two cents. I'd say a SATA 3Gbs would give you almost the same performance for cheaper plus less hassle. I'm always one of the first in and I just run one Raptor with 2GB of Corsair XMS Pro 3500LL.

SATA 3GBs does noting. Faster interface speed doesn't do any good when your internal transfer speed is the same.

[trodas]

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Would be interesting if anyone could measure a timedemo or something for the 1G - 2G performance improve, after all.

I got a lot of performance improve and memory problems gone by just deleting all the *.bik files - they stop eating the memory and game fit will on optimized XP (and even better on W2k systems) into the 1G of ram :)

[vampman1]

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i have just got an extra gig of ram, what a diff it makes, i would tell everyone to get 2gb of ram for this game