Technical Advice for EQ2 UpgradeFollow

Grats on the super computer =)

I'll break down what I can remember (I always keep notes on my research for these things) BUT it's at home.

More memory = Faster?

That all depends

I personally have a gig of ram. While the game is Windowed and I’m surfing the net while in game I'm currently using 670mb of memory. Now if I needed to open up a program that required a lot of memory while playing the game I would need more memory.

I don't see it making the computer faster in this case, but more could never hurt.


Some computer manufactures only include a small amount of memory say 128mb. If you’re running Windows XP with 128mb of ram, I don’t care what you’re doing its going to run slow despite the processor you have. In that case more memory would make the computer faster. I always recommend 512mb as a base. For what were doing, oh yeah a gig is suggested.

I don’t believe you can mix Dual channel with a single channel memory. If you could the memory would only run at single channel. Also you have to buy memory in pairs with Dual channel. In my configuration (1 GB) I have 2 512 Dual Channel dimms. With single channel it doesn’t matter.

Hope that helps



Oh something I forgot two answer. Dual Channel is 5%-7% faster then single channel. If you have a P4 I would recommend it, if you’re running an AMD it doesn’t utilize the dual channel as much as a P4. I don't have the exact numbers here and I researched that in April thus the AMD comment now may be inaccurate.

My friend has pretty much the same setup as my PC with 512mb. I have 1GB we do see a diffrence in performance. Crowded zone's you can notice the diffrence greatly.

That's not to say I dont get lag tho. I have a great PC setup and 3meg connection down 384k up (very stable connection) But i've lagged out before.




Edited, Mon Nov 29 23:08:50 2004 by toxicmoon

Dual only being 5-7% better? And possibly not even so on an AMD (which I use a AMD 3000+)? Hell, it sounds almost like I should just drop all the potential problems with trying to hook up a dual kit and just stock my channels with 512 sticks.

I'm thinking of trying to get at least 1.5 gig ram cause I multitask...alot...on this comp.
Scripting MUDs, EQ2, 2+ messenger services, and a web browser all at the same time...with hopefully being able to play in the city in EQ, thats my goal.

Right now, I just can't move when I'm in the city, no matter how much I limit my other activiites on the comp. If Dual ram is only so marginally better, it just doesn't sound worth it to me. Plus with regular DDR, I can just stock it up whenever I get the free cash.

Ok little story for yall, maybe get me some sympathy here. About 2 months ago, my comp got fried when I tried to put in my GeForce 6800. I swear I've popped vid cards in an out without unpluggin the power but this time it decided to fritz the computer and the card. After all the warrenty work was back and a new motherboard was in, had a small mishap on setting up the BIOS again when I changed the FSB too high. When a friend of mine was looking at it, he accidently, not sure how, fried one of my two 512MB RAM sticks.

Ok down to 512MB now which kinda lags for EQ right? So I had this broken chip, laying around, pretty useless and just decoration. That was until I happened across the fact that Kingston offers lifetime warrenty on my memory when I was shopping for a new one. So I call them up and they say "We discontinued that brand, but we can repair it to honor our warrenty."

Well thats all fine and dandy...the problem is I get a little obsessive about chewing on things sometimes. (Don't chew on processor pins guy, it'll damn near kill you). Anything laying around I'll chew on...and since their was a nice stick of 512 memory laying around, it got chewed on, alot. Not 10 minutes before I called in for RMA work I chewed off like two chips on the stick.

Anyone wanta make some wagers if they'll be able to repair it and "honor their warrenty?"

Didn't see anyone mention it yet. I too have an AMD system, and am in the process of slowly buying ram (it's damn expensive for that ram I want...)

When you're looking for memory for an AMD system, look for something with 2-2-2 latency (the lowest you can get.) I have no idea what those numbers mean, but I've had multiple people tell me that on multiple forums.

This is the RAM I'm getting, and it runs like a dream. I'm in the process of saving up for another stick now. Supposedly the algorightm that PQI uses is miliseconds faster than even Corsair ram (yeah, it may not seem like much, but I think it's noticable...)

Anyway, not exactly what you were looking for in the way of answers, but hopefully this'll point you in the right direction for buying some nice fast ram.