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Jaged
2004-02-21, 09:34 PM
I know planetside runs with alot of lag on most comps, but mine is especialy laggy. Compared to the computer at my dads house, its not that great.

What would be the best single upgrade I could make to my comp for hopefully not much money?

NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X
SB Audigy Audio
1.2GHz AMD Duron processor
512MB RAM
Rayder
2004-02-21, 10:38 PM
Zap! Wrong forum.
XxXMaRiNeXxX
2004-02-21, 10:39 PM
well...I'd say up your RAM to 1024 as it will reduce lag, if your not having FPS problems. Your processor is a bottleneck too, but hey, even the governments top secret supercomputers lag in big battles...
Jaged
2004-02-21, 10:47 PM
Zap! Wrong forum.

Yeah, but no one looks in the tech forum. It will probably get moved anyway.
Strygun
2004-02-21, 10:54 PM
faster processor.

--moving this to tech forum
Biohazzard56
2004-02-21, 10:55 PM
RAM first of all its cheap
Rbstr
2004-02-21, 10:58 PM
Ram, and a duron is the celleron of AMD.

Also pleanty of people look in the tech forum, especialy the people that know what they are talking about.
LimpBIT
2004-02-21, 11:19 PM
Ask ure dad duh LOL. Come on "Jaged" you need to get ure dad to get some comp parts or you. :D :D :D
Sentrosi
2004-02-22, 12:17 AM
Damn

I have a mobo/2200+ processor just lying around. Too bad i'm giving the mobo to Duff.
dscytherulez
2004-02-22, 02:32 PM
Cheaper - 512 mb RAM

The processor would really help too though. I'd have to say RAM first, then if you got the $ get the processor.
ZionsFire
2004-02-22, 05:03 PM
*huggles2400+*
Fragmatic
2004-02-22, 05:05 PM
*huggles2400+*

*huggles 2800+*
ZionsFire
2004-02-22, 05:10 PM
*huggles 2800+*

:o
Ait'al
2004-02-22, 05:16 PM
Huggles P4 3.4E(prescott) :D

Huggles everyone! :lol:

Huggles 386SX

Huggles 70ns fast page ram!

Huggles 32 pin Simms

Huggles 100ns EDO ram. 8o ( or was that 60ns)
Smaug
2004-02-22, 05:17 PM
/me scolds self for buying 3200+ when he could have gotten a 64 3200+ or higher for the same price
Ait'al
2004-02-22, 05:24 PM
You could upgrade to 1 gig of ram if it supports it. And a new processor. Those would be the best. What does that board support? You could get a decent sized upgrade for almost nothing. Maybe even a new mobo and ram and proccessor for like 200 that would outdo that.

Whats your dads comp, out of curiosity. And what type and speed ram is yours? Let me get the Sherlock holmes smiley again. --> pimp: <-- everyone in the tech forum should be required to have one in there sig. :p

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Ram, and a duron is the celleron of AMD.

Also pleanty of people look in the tech forum, especialy the people that know what they are talking about.

:D :doh:

pimp: I am sherlock holmes again.
Rbstr
2004-02-22, 05:39 PM
New mobo, CPU and decent ram for 200$ i laugh at the quality of what those parts may be.

dude thats the pimp smily not sherloc holmes.

I wasn't talking about you Ait.
rogueleader
2004-02-23, 09:12 AM
Ok I'm come down to the final two so this will be my last post on RAM. Please take a look at these two and tell me which is better please. http://www.ocsystem.com/ocx21gbpcddm1.html
http://www.ocsystem.com/ocx21gbpcddm.html
Rbstr
2004-02-23, 04:02 PM
I'd get the Cas two ddr400.
Jaged
2004-02-24, 02:26 AM
Whats your dads comp, out of curiosity. And what type and speed ram is yours?

Radeon 9600 XP AGP
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
2.80 GHz Pentium 4
512 RAM

Runs smooth as a baby's back side I might add. Even in the largest battles, I get green stats across the board.
Phaelon
2004-02-24, 09:27 AM
Interesting that you get no lag in big battles with only 512 megs of ram, what are your settings at?
On my alternate machine, running P4 1.7 with 512 RD-ram, it lagged until I got the extra 512 boosting it to 1 gig, then it ran just fine. Of corse the main machine never had a problem heh.
Jaged
2004-02-24, 08:48 PM
Get this, my video settings are set at high quality across the board. 512 is the recomended ammount for planetside. 512 is all you need.
Phaelon
2004-02-24, 11:16 PM
512 is all you think you might need, but Planetside is optimized to use much more than that.

On a computer that has 1 gig it uses around 690 MBs.
Ait'al
2004-02-24, 11:50 PM
Is it possible this thing with some people only needing around 512k has to do with a game problem. Maybe they have something that is making it run better on there machines? Or is it just low settings?
Rbstr
2004-02-24, 11:53 PM
it could be fast memory, in dual channel config, i've been trying to figure out the thing to PS FPS, And i have a feeling that it may not jsut be the larget ammount of memory but that fact you get alot more bandwidth because most people seem to only have one stick before they upgrade. Perhaps you have two 256 sticks and that give ti added bandwidth to make a profound difference