My 512 DDR ram did nothing!

Hitokami · 10-23-2003, 03:47 PM

Hey everyone, I just bought a 512mb PC2100 ram for my computer hoping it would increase my benchmark score, unfortunatly it did not. I would really appreciate any and all answers to my quiery.

My specs:
AMD Athelon XP2400+
Nvidia geforce 5200fx
Windows OS
my ddr clock is at 266

plz help me

Rubik · 10-23-2003, 04:03 PM

It is the speed of your memory more than the amount that will affect your score. I got a better score with 512MB of PC3200 memory than with 1024MB of PC2700.

Most of your issues, however, are not with your memory but with your vid card. I had a 5200FX installed and was not getting a good score. I switched to an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro and my scores nearly doubled (especially at high resolution).

FFXI relies more on processor and video card than on memory. You should be OK with 256MB of memory (of course more is better).

Hitokami · 10-23-2003, 05:52 PM

I understand that most issues are with the video card, but an addition of 512mb DDR should do something, my score was 4 points less then without the added memory

Rubik · 10-24-2003, 07:08 AM

More memory is always a good thing but if you are bottlenecking at your video card you'll never see much of an advantage from the memory. The best comparison I can think of is a river. If you have a river that is clogged with debris and has a dam at the end you can clear out all the debis but the water coming out of the dam won't move any faster. Your problem is the 'dam' video card.

10-23-2003, 03:47 PM	#1
Hitokami Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: California Posts: 51 Style: Light Theme V7 Thanks: 3 Thanked 0x in 0 Posts	My 512 DDR ram did nothing! Hey everyone, I just bought a 512mb PC2100 ram for my computer hoping it would increase my benchmark score, unfortunatly it did not. I would really appreciate any and all answers to my quiery. My specs: AMD Athelon XP2400+ Nvidia geforce 5200fx Windows OS my ddr clock is at 266 plz help me __________________ "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” -Napoleon Bonaparte

10-23-2003, 05:52 PM	#3
Hitokami Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: California Posts: 51 Style: Light Theme V7 Thanks: 3 Thanked 0x in 0 Posts	I understand that most issues are with the video card, but an addition of 512mb DDR should do something, my score was 4 points less then without the added memory __________________ "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” -Napoleon Bonaparte

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10-23-2003, 04:03 PM	#2
Rubik Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 361 Style: Light Theme V7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 Posts	It is the speed of your memory more than the amount that will affect your score. I got a better score with 512MB of PC3200 memory than with 1024MB of PC2700. Most of your issues, however, are not with your memory but with your vid card. I had a 5200FX installed and was not getting a good score. I switched to an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro and my scores nearly doubled (especially at high resolution). FFXI relies more on processor and video card than on memory. You should be OK with 256MB of memory (of course more is better).

10-24-2003, 07:08 AM	#4
Rubik Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 361 Style: Light Theme V7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 Posts	More memory is always a good thing but if you are bottlenecking at your video card you'll never see much of an advantage from the memory. The best comparison I can think of is a river. If you have a river that is clogged with debris and has a dam at the end you can clear out all the debis but the water coming out of the dam won't move any faster. Your problem is the 'dam' video card.