A gigabyte of RAM has served PC gamers well for the longest,
and has always been enough to get the job done. But as
Battlefield 2, F.E.A.R., and a number of upcoming
resource-hungry titles begin changing the landscape of
gaming, a gigabyte of memory is no longer enough, and two
gigs are becoming more than just a “luxury” for hard-core
gamers with deep pockets. Thanks to Newegg.com, we’ll be
looking at how the Mushkin XP4000 eXtreme Performance 2 GB
(2 x 1 GB) DDR 500 kit will give your rig the headroom it
needs to run the next generation of games and an extra boost
in overclocking power.
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Editor's Review:
In Today's world, let's face it, you simply need more ram capacity to allocate to the every increasing resource eating applications and game titles in the current market's. Today's game titles often publish minimum system requirements and or in some cases "recommended" system requirements for a given game title and these recommendations are often very conservative and in some cases simply don't jive up to specification requirements. While we often think the mighty 1024 MB dual channel ram is more than enough, the reality of the story is, if your PC is used as a family entertainment system, then chances are you would benefit from larger capacity memory storage.
For example, if you have a machine that is just a gaming rig and used for nothing else, then you might get away with acceptible performance from a gig of ram. Now if you are family orientated and the PC is used by son's and daughter's, mother's & father's, for business, pleasure, surfing, scanning, printing, chatting, checking monthly stocks and bonds and a multitude of other task's then chance's are your 1024MB is on the ragged edge, especially if you run two and three or more USB devices and have the system configured to do everything short of cooking and cleaning then your system performance might very well be limited to its extended ram capacity.
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