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Off-Topic Discussion => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: starbug on December 26, 2006, 05:21:49 am

Title: Upgrading for company of Heroes
Post by: starbug on December 26, 2006, 05:21:49 am

I am wanting to upgrade my machine to get company of heroes to work smoother on my machine, i was going for a memory upgrade because i have a decent graphics card and processor, at the moment i have 512DDR ram, i was going to buy Kingston Valueram Computer Memory 1GB PC3200 DDR 400MHz 184 Pin but i have ran into a problem, the PC3200 what is that?

When i look in my motherboard manual all it says for the memory is DDR 400, 184Pin dosen't say anything about PC3200 etc. I have the Nividia Nforce ultra A8N-E socket 939 motherboard, will the that memory stick work? i have tried to find a contact for asus for the uk but all i can find is there laptop helpline.

Also does anyone know what the max processor i can put in it is? and will this system be ok for Vista as well?

          AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+,  MMX,  3DNow, ~2.0GHz
          512MB RAM(Upgrading that to a 1GB)
          DirectX 9.0c
          RADEON X800 GTO
          120GB harddisk

Title: Re: Upgrading for company of Heroes
Post by: brozozo on December 26, 2006, 11:07:08 am

I'm no expert, but I believe that's another designation for how fast the RAM is. I think; I'm not really sure. Let's use the Way-Back Machine! PC133 RAM is better than PC100 RAM.

I had to upgrade my RAM to get Company of Heroes running at a decent rate as well. I didn't expect the game to be such a beast.

Title: Re: Upgrading for company of Heroes
Post by: Turambar on December 26, 2006, 12:57:03 pm

im going to wait for whatever multiple-race sci-fi epic plot RTS game uses that engine to buy that.

WWII is so old.

Title: Re: Upgrading for company of Heroes
Post by: CP5670 on December 26, 2006, 01:01:57 pm

PC3200 is the same thing as DDR400. Getting more memory is indeed the best option in your situation.

Title: Re: Upgrading for company of Heroes
Post by: starbug on December 26, 2006, 03:01:54 pm

Thanks very muchly CP5670, ta very much

Title: Re: Upgrading for company of Heroes
Post by: Sandwich on January 02, 2007, 02:28:12 am

to get the PCxxxx rating of memory, multiple the DDR or DDR2 number by 8. And vice verse to get the DDR/DDR2 rating from the PCxxxx. :p

Title: Re: Upgrading for company of Heroes
Post by: rms on January 02, 2007, 08:15:51 pm

I think upgrading ram is a good move also.  You should think about overclocking too, tho in your place I would have already spent many hours finding the limits of the cpu and videocard :)

rms