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    Default Too much RAM slows down my computer?

    I recently upgraded from 512mb of RAM to 2GB of RAM. I know you're thinking "wtf that should make it 4 times faster", that's what I thought too. On my cpu manual thing it says the MAX amount of ram it can support is 2gb, so I thought I would just get 2gb and not more (I mean why would I need more? ), but ever since I had the 2gb's of ram, my computer seems to have slowed down

    I first decided to test my ram by going on Cs:S, so I went to settings, and it suggested (with the little '*') that I should set everything to high settings, but I wanted to test the frame rate on the lowest settings. So I ran the video stress test and HOLY SHIT it was so slow I was probably getting 5-10fps, and every 3 seconds it would freeze.

    My computer also seems to be working a bit slower than usual, so is it possible that I overloaded it or someting since the maximum reccomended ram is 2gb, and I got exactly that? If not, could anyone please tell me what's wrong

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    List the specs first i might not help much but other will

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    I dunno if the specs are really the problem, I mean I could play Cs:S easily on low graphics before.
    Here they are anyways:
    Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.66 Ghz
    2.00 GB of Ram
    ATI Radeon 9200 series (I think it's either 128mb or 256mb, also I'ma have an ATI Radeon x1650 pro 512mb soon)

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    Reason why your FPS didnt go up is because you still have a crap video card. Get your new video card than come back with the FPS results.

    Video Card > RAM for game performance. RAM is only for multi-tasking, and graphic/video editing.

    Only crap games with bad coding require more than 1GB of RAM. You can probably even run 3 CSS with 1 GB of RAM.

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    So you're saying that if my ram is better than my video card, it will run real slow? So in order to have faster performance, I need to have my vidoe card better than my ram? Also the overall speed of my comp has slowed down, not only in Cs:S, I just used that as an example.

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    Okay, for games it goes like this:

    Video card --> Processor --> RAM

    Ram will not affect your FPS noticeably (unless it's a game like BF2), I would've advised you to get a better video card, and maybe just upped your ram to 1GB...

    EDIT: Maybe your RAM and Processor don't like each other... (figuratively speaking)

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    Well, most of the time RAM will make your machine run faster, but not if your system doesn’t have enough system cache for your computer. There might be some other reasons, and I’m not entirely sure my response is correct, but if your computer doesn’t have enough cache to handle the extra RAM, then you’re going to need to upgrade your motherboard. Another reason might be that if your using Windows 95/98; then there is a maximum amount of RAM you can install.

    I’m not really sure why your computer might run slower, but I’m pretty sure that my first response is correct. You might want to wait for FabianN to take a look.

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