4gb enough for diablo 3?

C

CorNut

Limp Gawd
Joined
Dec 14, 2005
Messages
269
I just put together a PC for a friend with some new/some recycled parts. The MB is a Biostar 760G mATX that only has 2 ram slots.

I have 5-6 2gb sticks but limited to only using 2 since it's all the MB supports,so I can't really utilize em. I do have 2 4gb sticks, they're gskill 1866 and they aren't in use, I don't mind putting them in there if there'd be a noticeable difference but I have no idea if it'd benefit him. The MB only supports 1333 or 1600 (OC) so the 1866 seems a little overkill

cpu is a phenom x4 955, vid is gigabyte 6670 DDR3, HD is a 120gb muskhin chronos. Would I do the system injustice with only having 4gb in it?

w7 HP x64
 
I play mid range settings on D3 on my tower.

Rocking a 965 3.4quad
4gb DDR3 1600s
with an older GTS250 Nvidia card.

No lag even in big groups with alot going on, like I said, its not on max settings, but it plays well and looks great on mine. You should be good to go, the required specs are quite low considering how well the game looks.
 
I don't know if the game has x64 binaries, but as long as that is not the case, it's generally not possible for the game to allocate more than 2-3GB of ram (depending on boot.ini paramters), so yeah, you should be fine.
 
well that works out then, the thing seems to run great with 4gb but I don't have Diablo 3 to really test it. He's going to pick it up sometime next week. since the x64 was mentioned I googled it and it seems it is 32 bit so should be fine. I'm jealous though, I have 8gb of 1866, a 990fx board which supports sata3 paired with a vertex 3 120 and an fx-8150 and this phenom on a sata2 board boots to usable windows over 10 seconds sooner than mine. It takes around 13 seconds where mine is closer to 30. still the 25 seconds or whatever mine is is fast it's just amazing how much faster this one is when factoring in how every component is lower tier than what I have. :mad:
 
4gb is fine, the more the merry!

unless you run into constant memory leak issues that I have for SC2...I was about to justify the high memory usage (due to mem leak)to buy a 12gb tri channel set.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top