YOUR PC - RAM

RAM !!!! ...............

why this ram is so important for your computer and you have to spend a considerable amount of money on your ram... find it out here.

Ram is the computer component where the operating system ,software programs, and data in current use are stored so that they can be quickly accessed by the computer's CPU. RAM is much faster to read from and write to than the other kinds of storage in a computer, the hard disk, floppy disk, and CD-ROM/DVD-ROM. But there is one important difference involved here: the data in RAM stays there only as long as your computer is running. When you turn the computer off, RAM is emptied and all that data is lost. When you turn your computer on again, your OS and other startup-related files are once again loaded from the HDD back into the system RAM. To better understand the concepts behind RAM, an analogy with the human brain will come in handy. RAM can be compared to a person's short-term memory and the hard disk to the long-term memory. The human short-term memory focuses on work at hand, but can only keep so many facts in view at one time. If the short-term memory fills up, your brain is sometimes able to refresh it from facts stored in long-term memory. Computer RAM works in a similar way. Depending on the amount of storage space, RAM may eventually fill up and in this case, the processor needs to continually go to the hard disk to overlay old data in RAM with new, slowing down the computer's speed. Unlike the hard disk which can become completely full of data so that it won't accept any more unless you delete something, RAM never runs out of storage space as it works hand in hand with the hard disk. However, when helped by the hard disk, RAM operates at slower speeds than the standard ones.


GAMING PC - HOW MUCH RAM DO WE NEED ???

SO YOU ARE HERE on the lookout for a good gaming PC, and I thought here would be one of the best places to come for advice (kidding) .You might be looking for either soemthing pre-built or for recommendations on customizable PCs or for recommendations on DIY PCs .Gamers (counterstrike maniacs, racers with most wanted craze, AOE strategic players and everyone else) are welcome to add their knowledge here....

>>If you are looking to run Vista, be sure to invest in a DirectX10 compatible graphics card

Why? Vista runs fine on older cards. We won't be seeing DX10 games etc for quite a while. The only DX10 card is the 8800 and there are no DX10 or Vista drivers for it yet. From what I've seen its not a very good card at all.

>>Best to wait a couple of months before looking at DirectX 10 cards. The first cards of a new series are usually not that great and that problem is amplified with a new DX version.The companies cannot even write decent drivers fo DX9 on Vista... Give it time.I would recommend specs of:Intel Core Duo 2.6Ghz+2Gb DDR2 RAM2x 160Gb HDD2x Geforce 7950 would be the ultimate...

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>>Wait till end of Jan when the ATI r600 is released, you will get perhaps the option of a better card and also see pricing drops in the 8800 series. I have a sneaking suspicion the r600 is going to spank the g80 quite nicely with its memory architecture.