Make sure you get 204-pin SODIMM DDR3 modules.
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Not sure if the word crazy in the title is spelled wrong on purpose or a typo, just letting you know ^^
Disconnect and self destruct, one bullet a time.
| NotStan said: Not sure if the word crazy in the title is spelled wrong on purpose or a typo, just letting you know ^^ |
it's both
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| JEMC said: @eFKac: I don't know much about laptops, but when pairing RAM sticks, the usual things to look at are the speed and latency (meaning that both sticks "should" be 1600MHz and CL11 or whatever are the values of your current RAM). That or simply go and get a single stick with 8GB of RAM  .And I would go for quantity over speed, 8GB 1333MHz better than 4GB 1866MHz. |
Depends.
If a graphics card is taking memory from system memory, than latency be damned, frequency is what you want.
His laptop uses nVidia Optimus (Lord help you, that you never have driver issues!) thus it's easy to assume the Geforce 740M has it's own memory pool.
However, according to the Intel specifications sheet the notebook won't support memory speed faster than 1600mhz, so whatever Ram you buy that exceeds that, will probably drop to 1600mhz.
I suggest just a 2x4Gb 1600mhz kit. - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231482
Or getting a single 4Gb stick that matches the other in terms of speed. (I.E. If the other one is 1333mhz it makes ZERO sense to go with a 1600Mhz stick because you generally pay more for those.)
| eFKac said: So here comes the question. I have a spare memory slot, I want to upgrade my RAM. I couldn't find another same stick as mine. What should I look at so the new stick would be paired and working perfectly? Motherboard compatibility, frequency, timings, voltage, manufacturer? What is important what is not? Is it OK to combine 4 + 2 gig sticks (I assume yes) cause I think 6GBs would close the deal. Or would it be better if I sold my current stick and get a better 4GBs one like for example with an CL9 instead of a CL11 at 1600 MHz frequency, would I see a difference in game performance with better timings? The less specialized language you use the better appriciate all the help! |
Mixing different brands, frequency, latency Ram isn't that much of a drama these days, it used to be with some specific chipsets, but these days the fastest Ram stick will just match all it's settings to the slowest Ram stick.
As for going towards 6Gb, I don't advise it, going with 4Gb+2Gb would enable Aysnchronous Dual Channel DDR mode, so performance wouldn't be optimal, go for a matching size pair.
You can also download and run CPU-Z to determine what frequency your current Ram runs at and buy another stick that matches it.
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Holy shitballs
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor PC System Requirements:
Shadow of Mordor, the new Crysis? That or it's an unoptomised mess
Yeeeaaaaa, going with the second option
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| zarx said: Holy shitballs Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor PC System Requirements:
Shadow of Mordor, the new Crysis? That or it's an unoptomised mess
Yeeeaaaaa, going with the second option |
Agreed.
Those requirements are nuts.
It doesn't look like anything special either.
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Those recommend specs are really high for a game that looks decent. It probably is optimized, as someone said before. I might have to upgrade my 680 soon, because games are starting to get close to it:( I was hoping to wait out for the 800 series:/
| KingKazuma34 said: Those recommend specs are really high for a game that looks decent. It probably is optimized, as someone said before. I might have to upgrade my 680 soon, because games are starting to get close to it:( I was hoping to wait out for the 800 series:/ |
Well, with Quad Radeon 290's, it even makes me sweat. - Demanding games are not exactly "easy" to run on my pixel collider. (7680x1440 eyefinity set-up).
I think CPU and Ram wise, it's not all that surprising (It's what PC's had half a decade ago), but the GPU's.
A Radeon 6950 could give a Radeon 7850/R9 270 a run for it's money.
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I'm starting to wonder where do devs get those requirements of, and I'm coming to two different ideas:
1-They have forgotten how to optimize.
2-They are cheating with both the min and max req. to make sure that the game will look stunning in either configuration we try.
Please excuse my bad English.
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