core2quad

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by Stublerone

Nooooo, please not tell wrong things and read phat's technical thread. It is NOT the RAM memory!!!!! It is in first priority the VRAM memory (the memory on your videocard)!!!!!

If you run out of this memory, it swaps to normal RAM at second stage. But than it is already too late, because a normal RAM is generally slower and is far away from the videocard with a slow BUS. All RAM memory afterwards is simply to slow to do athis amount of work fast enough. It could help to gain some performance with faster RAM, but the main problem: "running out of VRAM" still remains unsolved.

Just concerning the memory bottleneck!

What are you talking about?

I am talking to/about someone who I presume has already got a nice video card.

If they have that, then the next possible bottlenecks are CPU and RAM. A Core2 Quad at 3.0 GHz (or faster if they overclock it) might well be fast enough. Old slow RAM is old and slow.

Certainly more RAM on the video card is good, and there again slow RAM may be a problem, most high end video cards since years ago have used DDR5, but some lower end graphics cards use DDR3. DDR3 is as fast as you can fit in a PC, but for graphics cards DDR5 is available, and apparently it's something like twice as fast.