Memory upgarde worth it?

[Rockin Ronnie]

I have a 2 year old P4 2 gig (Northwood) with 512 RDRAM (Samsung 800) on an
Asus P4T-E, Radeon 9600Pro, 120 gig Barracuda. Would an upgrade to 1 gig of
RDRAM be worth it if I use it for gaming and light duty Photoshop work?

Ron

 

[Bob Day]

I have a 2 year old P4 2 gig (Northwood) with 512 RDRAM (Samsung 800) on an
Asus P4T-E, Radeon 9600Pro, 120 gig Barracuda. Would an upgrade to 1 gig of
RDRAM be worth it if I use it for gaming and light duty Photoshop work?

I don't think going from 512MB to 1GB will speed things up much,
but you might consider 512MB of PC1066 if the P4T-E will handle it.

-- Bob Day

 

[budman101]

If you are using a Microsoft OS, 512mb seems to be sweet spot. The law of
diminishing returns applies for anything above that level. You will get a
boost but not as much as going from 128->512. IMHO the thing that speeds up
PS is having a physically different "scratch drive". I'm not a gamer so no
comment on that side.

 

[philo]

I have a 2 year old P4 2 gig (Northwood) with 512 RDRAM (Samsung 800) on an
Asus P4T-E, Radeon 9600Pro, 120 gig Barracuda. Would an upgrade to 1 gig of
RDRAM be worth it if I use it for gaming and light duty Photoshop work?

Ron

Yep going up to a gig will help with photoshop
especially if you are working with multiple images

 

[Will Dormann]

I have a 2 year old P4 2 gig (Northwood) with 512 RDRAM (Samsung 800) on an
Asus P4T-E, Radeon 9600Pro, 120 gig Barracuda. Would an upgrade to 1 gig of
RDRAM be worth it if I use it for gaming and light duty Photoshop work?

Only you can answer that. Open your common set of applications and
start doing some work in photoshop. Look at the Task Manager to see
if you're using more memory than is physically installed in your
machine. If you are (and thus swapping), then a RAM upgrade will
help. Otherwise, you can probably skip it.

This is all assuming that you're not running Win9x...


-WD

 

[sooky grumper]

I have a 2 year old P4 2 gig (Northwood) with 512 RDRAM (Samsung 800) on an
Asus P4T-E, Radeon 9600Pro, 120 gig Barracuda. Would an upgrade to 1 gig of
RDRAM be worth it if I use it for gaming and light duty Photoshop work?

Ron

No. Unless you're doing video editting and the like (in which case
you'll want another HDD as well), then 512 is sufficient and you'll not
likely see a benefit that outweighs the cost of more RDRAM.

 

[Timothy Drouillard]

The only place you would see an improvement in your usage would be with
Photoshop.

If you are running Photoshop itself rather than the lesser versions such as
Photoshop LE or Elements, it would depend on your usage of Photoshop.

Photoshop loves memory. It can never get enough, but that would depend on
the size and number of images you have open at any one time, etc.

For most things, you will only see a minimal improvement in everyday usage.

 

[Matt]

I have a 2 year old P4 2 gig (Northwood) with 512 RDRAM (Samsung 800) on an
Asus P4T-E, Radeon 9600Pro, 120 gig Barracuda. Would an upgrade to 1 gig of
RDRAM be worth it if I use it for gaming and light duty Photoshop work?

Ron

The answer depends on the current price of RDRAM. How much is it?