RAM has a huge effect on a PC's performance, so, and increase of 512mb will definetely improve performance. I know someone with a 1700+ XP AMD proccesort and a gig of RAM and his PC runs better than mine with a 1900 + XP AMD, 512 MB RAM. I wouldn't bother with such a hefty proccessor upgrade though, I would get sometging a bit cheaper (possibly a AMD 64) and spend the remainder on a motherboard upgrade. Thats a point, what motherboard do you have?dbgray wrote:My current system is xp2000, 512 mb 333 ddr ram, 128mb msi Rad9800 pro. My Motherboard will take 400mhz fsb athlons and ram, will i see a big improvement if I get an xp3200 and 512 mb (1 gig if i can afford it) ddr 400?
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I have an ASUS A7N8X-X. My old Gigabyte blew up on me and I needed a cheap replacement as I was at uni at the moment. The fastest cpu it will take is 400 fsb athlons otherwise I would get an AMD64. I don't know whether to get an extra 512mb of 333mhz or 400mhx ram or scrap that and get 1 gig 400 mhz ram. Is it worth the price hike. Whats the best make for memory?
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Note that the best performance is acheived by having your ram speed in sync with your fsb speed. So if your fsb is set at 333, its best to put your ram at 333 aswell. If your cpu is meant for a 333 fsb it is possible to increase your fsb if you reduce the cpu multiplier (otherwise you will be overclocking the cpu), the ram can then run in sync with the fsb to give better performance.
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Your motherboards alright, not that good, but it'll do. I would go with the extra 512 mb if your other RAM is 333mhz. Apparently, your motherboard has 3 slots, so you could get 2 new sticks of 512mb.dbgray wrote:I have an ASUS A7N8X-X. My old Gigabyte blew up on me and I needed a cheap replacement as I was at uni at the moment. The fastest cpu it will take is 400 fsb athlons otherwise I would get an AMD64. I don't know whether to get an extra 512mb of 333mhz or 400mhx ram or scrap that and get 1 gig 400 mhz ram. Is it worth the price hike. Whats the best make for memory?
Priming Your PC For X2 Guide:
http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtopic.php?t=68241
Getting Started With Capturing Guide (X2)
http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtopic.php?t=68718
http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtopic.php?t=68241
Getting Started With Capturing Guide (X2)
http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtopic.php?t=68718
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I know this is kinda dredging things up a bit, but based on my experience, I've been encouraging people to use a small trick to boost performance a bit ever since I was in tech support back in the seeming stone ages.. 
I've found that memory generally makes the most impact on system performance, so a lot of my machines usually stress RAM in their configuration. For instance, my tower has 768MB and my laptop is at 1GB, and they are both several years old.
However, what I suggest to people is that they take the current amount of RAM that they have and multiply it by 1.5. Then take that number, and statically set their Virtual Memory to exactly that size. It's best done on a fresh install, or at the very least, a fresh hard boot, but in my experience, this helps a lot. If that amount of memory doesn't work for you, you can increase it easily (you'll know by an "out of virtual memory" error message). This also has a side effect of not having to worry about running your hard-drive space down too low, since it's already allocated.
If you want to try it, in XP (it's available in every Windows since at least 95 though) go to Start-Settings-Control Panel->System->Advanced->Performance: Settings->Advanced->Change. Set the Initial Size and Maximum Size to the same amount, and if you have multiple drives, use the faster RPM drive, if you know which one it is. Put it all on the same disk, either way, and then disable it on the other drive. Also, be sure that your hard drive is defragmented (run it several times if you have to) before setting this up. The objective is to give it as much contiguous space as it needs, and it never has to mess with allocating and deallocating one of the slowest things in your system (your hard drive).
This is just generally, but it may help with X2 as well. I'm not sure what kind of gain you would get in X2 specifically, as my X2 machine has had it setup like this since a long time ago, I do know it helps with games and just general performance. I have a feeling it will help for X2, considering how much swapping the thing does (and it runs 100x better on my 1GB machine than it did on my old 512MB machine).
I've found that memory generally makes the most impact on system performance, so a lot of my machines usually stress RAM in their configuration. For instance, my tower has 768MB and my laptop is at 1GB, and they are both several years old.
However, what I suggest to people is that they take the current amount of RAM that they have and multiply it by 1.5. Then take that number, and statically set their Virtual Memory to exactly that size. It's best done on a fresh install, or at the very least, a fresh hard boot, but in my experience, this helps a lot. If that amount of memory doesn't work for you, you can increase it easily (you'll know by an "out of virtual memory" error message). This also has a side effect of not having to worry about running your hard-drive space down too low, since it's already allocated.
If you want to try it, in XP (it's available in every Windows since at least 95 though) go to Start-Settings-Control Panel->System->Advanced->Performance: Settings->Advanced->Change. Set the Initial Size and Maximum Size to the same amount, and if you have multiple drives, use the faster RPM drive, if you know which one it is. Put it all on the same disk, either way, and then disable it on the other drive. Also, be sure that your hard drive is defragmented (run it several times if you have to) before setting this up. The objective is to give it as much contiguous space as it needs, and it never has to mess with allocating and deallocating one of the slowest things in your system (your hard drive).
This is just generally, but it may help with X2 as well. I'm not sure what kind of gain you would get in X2 specifically, as my X2 machine has had it setup like this since a long time ago, I do know it helps with games and just general performance. I have a feeling it will help for X2, considering how much swapping the thing does (and it runs 100x better on my 1GB machine than it did on my old 512MB machine).