RAM for a crippled rig...

[Starfishy]

I already have an A64 3200+

I have purchased an eVGA 7900 GT

Now I need to get some new RAM to replace the old 512 I have. Is it worth getting a full 2GB when all I am doing is gaming. Is it worth saving some money and getting 1GB and upgrading the CPU as well?

Where will the bottleneck be on this rig? The CPU?

If you have time, I would like to buy the RAM from this site. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[choirbass]

as far as if youre only gaming... you would want at least 1 GB... 2 GB is better though, that would open up alot of leway as far as reducing hard drive access in game from your pagefile, and just improving overall performance and load times, especially if the game is more demanding... your cpu is fine with the gpu you have

 

[jap0nes]

what games do you play?
the only game i've heard until now that benefits from 2 gb is battlefield 2

 

[choirbass]

i remembered reading this alittle while ago when tomshardware posted it... but its an article explaining whether its worth it or not to even upgrade from 512 to 1 GB, or even 2 GB of memory

http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/13/how_much_ram_do_you_really_need/