tomshardware did a test for finding the performance difference between an identical setup featuring 512MB, 1GB and 2 GB, link is below:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/...eed/index.html
I observe their results, but I disagree with their conclusions. From what I gather, they have found that out of a batch of applications (including synthetic tests, video transcoding, etc), games were the only applications that gave a significantly better performance when using 2GB compared to 512MB ram. That is relevant to us.
By running a GB ethernet ftp-connection transferring 8.6GB of data while playing a computer game, they were able to show a very noticable performance gap between the 512MB and 2GB of memory. But how relevant is that to us? How many are using GB ethernet here?
regards
Knut