Better gaming performance upgrading from 2gig to 4gig?

Question

Level 1

0 points

Better gaming performance upgrading from 2gig to 4gig?

Hi all,

Just wondering what you think about upgrading from 2gig to 4gig to increase gaming performance? I've a MBP 2.2ghz 128mb VRAM with 2gig of RAM and thinking about upgrading to 4gig. Will I see a decent increase in frame rates for games from my current system? Or is the 128mb VRAM going to be the only factor?

Cheers:)

MBP 2.2ghz 128mb VRAM, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Aug 29, 2007 3:08 PM

Reply

Answer 1

Aug 29, 2007 3:31 PM in response to jackdanny

I dont think it would hurt. Nothing but good things could come from having more memory. 4gb is a bit overkill though for most programs and games available at the moment.

I do think that your videocard would bottleneck any potential gains you would see from more memory. But I think the extra memory can help alittle... not really that much better, but alittle better.

Reply

Answer 2

Aug 29, 2007 3:50 PM in response to jackdanny

I would check your page in/out ratio in Activity Monitor after a heavy gaming session. If you aren't getting a stack of page outs then upgrading your RAM isn't going to help much, if at all.

Reply

Answer 3

Mandy K

Level 2

325 points

Aug 29, 2007 4:43 PM in response to jackdanny

There aren't any games on the market that take advantage of that much RAM. 🙂 Just consider that an Xbox 360 or a Playstation 3 only has 1/8th that amount of memory.

You can verify quite easily for yourself by following Ned's suggestion, too.

Reply