I wouldn't say the most important part of a computer is the memory. Over the years dealing with hundreds of mbs and all kinds of issues, a quality mb makes all the difference. As far as performance importance goes though, I'd put the HD "quality" above Ram "quality." Quantity is a different story though.
Also PS wasn't all that CPU dependant back around beta... now the game actually runs about 10x worse than then either from graphic updates/cc, and server lag and over population that you truly need every single ouce of PC horsepower you can get. The game was easily playable on a 1ghz cpu with a decent video card then... now it would crawl.
As for original poster - Get the 2nd 512 stick of pc2700, and get a new AMD cpu. As high as your mb will support. This is prolly a $150 or less upgrade and should show a very very nice improvement.
Now spending about $500-550 or more on a new P4 mb/cpu and memory... you'll see a little more speed... but not huge, not even really big. Just b/c there is no such thing as a HUGE improvement when it comes to PS. Truly you can have a 4-8k setup and this game still bogs the .... down. So why bother.
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2003-12-01, 10:56 AM
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