Online games and Memory

[bowieboots]

My wife and I both play Everquest 1 and 2. We both have Athalon 2500s and I gig DDR ram. I have a Gforce 6600 and my Wife has a Radeon 9600pro. Would buying more Ram increase the speed of our game, and especially loading times, or do we need an upgrade on our system, which is going to mean new board, chip and graphics card, as the best we can hope for on our boards in athalon 3000, as our boards are socket A. We will probably go to a 939 socket as this seems the most future proof, but this will also mean new graphics card as we are on AGP atm

[mac124]

More memory could improve things like loading times but then so could a simple defrag of the hard drive. I tried putting more than 1gb in my SktA setup and it didn't like it 1 bit and refused to post though this was with 3 sticks of ram. Guess 2x1gb memory set up would be worth a try.

FYI you can get agp 939 motherboards so you wouldn't need to go pcie just yet. :wink:

Heres a couple that might interest you. :D

http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=22251

http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=22092

Or if you want to spend a bit more...

http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=22092

[Aaron]

or there is this one:

http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=21883

Socket 939 board that supports both AGP and PCI-E cards. What it doesnt seem to say in the product description is that it also has an expansion card available for it which plugs into a riser on the board. The expansion board includes an AM2 socket and 4 DDR2 Ram slots, so its future proof if you decide to keep going down the AMD route :)

Worth a look :)

[Firerat]

[quote:dd212bf5d0=\"Aaron\"]or there is this one:

http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=21883

Socket 939 board that supports both AGP and PCI-E cards. What it doesnt seem to say in the product description is that it also has an expansion card available for it which plugs into a riser on the board. The expansion board includes an AM2 socket and 4 DDR2 Ram slots, so its future proof if you decide to keep going down the AMD route :)

Worth a look :)[/quote:dd212bf5d0]

It certainly is,
Cheers Aaron we'll look into this.

http://www.asrock.com/product/AM2CPU%20Board.htm

We will see if we can source some