Building/Upgrading a PC for TS2
Hegelian:
Since there has been a lot of talk here recently about hardware, I thought I would post a couple links to news from AMD that affects anyone contemplating upgrading or buying an Athlon-based PC. In brief, AMD is rolling out a line of new CPUs that use the (relatively) new DDR2 RAM, and also a new 940-pin socket called AM2. Current Athlon CPUs will be migrated to the new socket, and new CPUs will be released only for Socket 940 as near as I can tell. It appears AMD intends to phase out its Socket 939 CPUs by the end of the year, effectively ending the upgrade possibilities for current Socket 939 motherboards.
So, if you're looking to upgrade your current Socket 939 Athlon, do it soon. If you're about to get a new motherboard and CPU, be sure they are Socket 940. :P
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/05/23/amd_intros_am2_processors/
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1966062,00.asp
Simlover:
Thanks Hegelian, I'm planning on upgrading again towards the end of the year, will keep this in mind.
Hegelian:
No doubt. But we're talking about game play here, not load times.
J. M. Pescado:
Well, as far as load times are concerned, as a general rule, you need at least twice as much additional memory as the size of your downloads folder. This permits the entire mess to fit into RAM and thus avoid hard drive access. You will need TWICE as much, however, because Windoze will take up half of your RAM, so of any RAM you purchase for this, half of it will be Windoze's cut.
Hegelian:
FWIW, as I write this I have 1046 MB of free RAM out of a total of 1535 MB, and my Paging File (virtual memory) use is 6 MB out of 312 MB availabe. This is actually a bit misleading since my Paging File is set for a maximum of 850 MB (the actual values are 10-50 MB on drive C and 100-800 MB on drive E). This is with WinXP Pro.
When I run the game I usually have 400-500 MB of free RAM.
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