Removable HD or More Ram
 

Which do you think I should get
More Ram - around 1 gig of DDR 2700 SDRAM
or
A removable Hard Drive

thanks
and for the HD - wheres a good place to buy one and what kind
thanks again
-SImo

How much RAM do you currently have, and what type is it? And how many GBs of storage do you currently have?

-Lasereth

Check out TigerDirect.com. They have some great deals

currently i have 512MB RAM and 2 HDs one 40 gig and one 80 gig

thanks - Ill have to try that

Do you need more space, or a faster computer?

If you're running tight on space, get the HDD otherwise the ram.

eventually ill do both - but im wondering which i should do first

Well which one do you need more !?
Go with that......

Yeah, it totally depends on what you need. If it has been slowing down, or you just want a bit more speed, get the RAM. If you need more room to keep stuff (pr0n ;)), get another hard drive.

haha - im on a 56K - pr0n isn't available :(
but I'll probably go with the extra memory at the moment - thanks guys
-SImo

if you already have 512 id get the HD.

yes but 512 isnt enough - not what i need my machine to do

I'd get more RAM, but not more than an extra 512 MB. If you're gonna use it for gaming, then over 1-1.5 GB can actually bog the system down in some cases. If you're gonna do video editing or encoding, then you could get away with more than that.

I'd also like to add that getting a new 512 MB stick of PC3200 or PC4000 (if your motherboard and processor can support it) would increase your system power moreso than adding another 512 MB of PC2700. In today's world, faster RAM is much more powerful than larger quantities of less-powerful RAM.

-Lasereth

ditto, more ram. What the hell do you fill up all that HD space with w/o a broadband connection? Seriously, I'm askin :)

thanks for the ram info - but my pc can only take up to the 2700 unfortunetly

I have friends with broadband, and lots of all-nighters online!, plus many games - Halo, Max Payne, Matrix, UT2K3, ect.ect

thanks for the info guys

Once you figure out what you need check prices here.
http://www.newegg.com/

actually if you are gamin there is nothing sweeter than a pc with 1.5+ gigs of ram,

friend has one with 3 gigs, its beautiful,

512 for normal use, then he has a nice 2.5 gig ram drive, the levels, models, maps, load upm so damn fast for his top 3 or so most played games its sick.

i only have a 512mb ram(1 gig total, hal ram drive other half normal use) drive and i would never go back.

tho with only a 512 ram drive i can't have all of my games loading from it, i do have all my mmost commonly played CS and DoD maps loading from it.


so to sum it up, if u need more hd space, u have no choice but to get another hd,

else get more ram and make a ram drive for gaming(if you so incline)

What's the point of that? CS is definitely not ram intensive by today's standard. And why bother wasting money on a "ram drive" to be able to load cs a few seconds faster, and have to wait for other players to connect for a few seconds each time there's a new map, he'd have to waste MINUTES copying all that data to the ram drive every time he boots up.

RAM caps out on most of today's games. I've found that 768 MB of RAM is about the limit needed for games today. It may change next year, but it won't change *that* much. Hell, There was no difference in 3d Mark 2001 scores when I upgraded from 512 MB to 768. 512 MB is the amount that I'd make a requirement and 1 GB the max. Going over 1 GB just for gaming is overkill by far.

-Lasereth

The 512 point is where windows stops using ram effictively. Buying more...well, it's up to you to consider it a complete waste of $$.

I'd buy the HD.

By the way, tigerdirect is consistantly more expensive than newegg.com.

Only go to tiger if you LIKE paying more money for no reason at all.

I wonder why you said "removable" hard drive. Aren't they all "removable"?

I think he's talking about External. That's what I figured anyway.

-Lasereth

no - i meant a physically removeable HD - one that sits in a CD drive bay and can be physically pulled from the machine like a tape drive, its more for mass transfer quicker between PCs and my server

i would say hard drive space.. 120GB isnt what it used to be.. since everyone has broadband nowdays, it is so easy to to fill 120GB

what can i say i hate load times, but it also not just CS, unreal 2k3 load times are help out alot more by this.

then again i run gentoo/linux so i appreciate having ALOT of ram for running all i need while i play.

Damn you all with your motherboards that support more then 512MB of ram ;) (Mine doesn't, and it annoys me)

Use the money to buy a broadband connection....

if not, RAM

I already got a T1

Where was the T1 there?

hasnt gotten here yet - its coming - but very slowly :(