Radeons work with everything. If anything, they are MORE compatible with games than the GeForces are. The thing about Radeons not working well with certain stuff was spouted by some anti-radeon guy.
In fact, it has been proven that Nvidia cheated in that "worlds most powerful graphics card" competition thing. Even though they cheated, the Radeon still won.
The GeForce cards are good, and their latest one is brilliant. But personally I prefer ATis offerings, simply because they are statistically more powerful.
You DON'T need MORE ram to make your computer go faster. Ram is what a program sits in while it's waiting for the CPU to become free. If you run lots of processes at once, then you need enough ram to support it, otherwise your computer won't work.
RAm SPEED is what you need. Faster ram means the Programs in the ram can enter and exit the ram faster, which helps the CPU work more efficiently. For instance, 1 gig of 200mhz ram would be pretty slow, but 1 gig of 500mhz ram would be pretty fast.
Sadly, if you want more speed, you have to fork out the big dollars and buy yourself a bigger better processor. One that handles more data at once, and more quickly, so it spends less time in the processor. A 3.8ghz p4 can handle 3.8 ghz at once. The closer the RAM speed is to the CPU, the more effecient it will be.
For instance, lets say you have two programs, HL.exe and MsPaint.exe. HL.exe spends 1 second of processing time in the CPU, and MsPaint.exe spends 0.5 seconds in the CPU. While MsPaint.exe is in the CPU, HL.exe has to sit in the RAM. But if the CPU is faster, then MsPaint.exe only spends 0.01 seconds in the CPU, leaving plenty more time for HL.exe to spend in the CPU.
Last edited by Codek; 04-16-2004 at 12:42 PM..
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