Framerate issues a computer problem?

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Slinky25252

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I've got an AMD 64 3400+ and a 7600gt but only 512mb of some generic memory. Now while playing WoW I can occasionally hit 60fps on nearly full settings but I get plenty of random fps hits and in some areas I just get around 40fps average. My video card should be able to hit 60fps easy, so is this a ram issue that getting a 1GB of HyperX ram will easily fix, or is there something else wrong with my computer? I'd figure my AMD and Nvidia card should easily be able to handle the load and the main choke point was the ram, but at some points I'm just not sure. Thanks.
 
Although I'm not completely sure that the ram is the problem, I would have to say that 512 is kind of low. I would have to say that to play most games not 1 gb is probably the minimum to get decent performance.
 
oh yeah, the fact that you are only running 512MB of system mem is going to cause you HUGE performance issues in a game like WOW. I remember when i was playing (a loooong time ago) that thing would load almost 800MB into mem for the game. On your system, that is going to cause quite a bit of paging since almost 3/4 of the game is being written to virtual mem causing the crappy perform ace you are experiencing.

Anything less than a Gig nowadays is going to cause issues for a gamer. Upgrade your box and don't be cheap about it. Remember, you get what you pay for...
 
Yeah I've already got a gig of Kingston HyperX incoming. Now another question, should I throw out the crappy generic ram that I've got or leave it in there for 1.5gb of ram? I figure the more the merrier but I'm not exactly an expert with these sorts of things.
 
depends on what your MoBo will do with it.

If you have a single stick of 512 in there and add two more for the 1.5 total, I believe most MoBos will disable Dual channel because the 2 banks of mem will be of different sizes.

If you have 2 256 sticks, I believe you'll be OK. HOWEVER, your total memory speed will only be as fast as the slowest chip. SO, if your old mem had crappy latencies and your new mem is faster, your new mem will be retarded to run at the old mem speeds.

Not like you'll loose a lot of performance either way, but if your like me, you take pride in squeezing every last cycle of performance out of your system.
 
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