Should I bump up an iMacs Ram

tominated

macrumors 68000

Original poster

• Jul 7, 2006

• #1

Hi, I am new here. I want to know if I should up a new iMacs ram to 1gb. I am going to be doing quite a bit of gaming and stuff like that. It's my first mac so please help me

 

EricNau

Moderator emeritus

• Jul 7, 2006

• #2

I would say yes. For gaming or video editing, an extra 512 MB will speed things up.

 

Scarlet Fever

macrumors 68040

• Jul 7, 2006

• #3

for gaming, get as much as you can afford. 1.25 or 2GB won't go down too badly

 

iSee

macrumors 68040

• Jul 7, 2006

• #4

Absolutely, you should.
I had an Intel iMac at my old job with 512MB for a while. Even when using just using Word, Outlook and Flash it would often pause for 5-10 seconds switching between apps. With 1GB of RAM all pauses disappeared, even when running tons of apps.

 

dmw007

macrumors G4

• Jul 7, 2006

• #5

Yes, definitely go with more RAM tominated! 🙂

 

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Miguey

macrumors 6502

• Jul 7, 2006

• #6

Go for it, Gaming can always use the extra RAM.

 

dmw007

macrumors G4

• Jul 7, 2006

• #7

Miguey said:

Go for it, Gaming can always use the extra RAM.

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I think so too. 🙂

This reminds me, I read a story on tomshardware.com where they showed how having 2GB of RAM makes a noticeable improvement when playing games over a computer with 1GB of RAM.

Sorry, I don't have a link though... 😱