| DyspraxicGamer said: fair enough, I'm considering it cause some of my games are real RAM hogs (notably The Sims 3 and Football Manager which both hit 40%+ memory usage when in game), it's not hugely affecting playability yet but I can imagine future versions of the games causing me problems if I don't upgrade at some point! most looking forward to Titanfall and Watchdogs and The SIms 4 on PC this year, probably get new sports games and the like on PC as well if I can, better graphics is a big thing for me, I like my games to look freaking awesome when I play em! |
You need to be realistic about Ram quantities though, more Ram doesn't actually make your PC faster as it does no form of processing or accelleration, it just prevents your PC from slowing down when the system memory is full thus making your PC fall back to virtual memory.
Even if a game uses 7Gb of Ram, Windows will start unloading what it has cached, giving more memory available to your game.
With that in mind, the more Ram you have the more Windows will cache, Windows 7 right now on my system has 25Gb of data in it's caches, granted my PC hasn't had a restart in 2 months...
Reason people should make the jump now is mostly out of price, because I epect DDR3 Ram to double in price before DDR4 launches, heck it's already doubled once already from just a year ago in Australia.
As for which game I am most pumped about, it has to be Dragon Age 3 for me, it's been a long while since I have enjoyed a good RPG, here is hoping that Bioware hasn't ditched modding support and hasn't dumbed down the game more for consoles and I'm wishing for a Steam release like the first two games.
--::{PC Gaming Master Race}::--
