Hello, I am wondering if 8 gigs or RAM would be efficient enough for recording with Fraps, or if it would be smart to save up the extra $30~ish for 16gb.
If needed, here will be the other components:
MSI Twin Frozr 7950
RoseWill Hive 650 Watt PSU
500 GB HDD and an addition 1 tb drive
Some MSI Micro ATX board
8 gigs is sufficient, make sure that all of the clock speeds match on the ram. Investigate the highest speeds that your motherboard can support.
SSD's are much better for recording with fraps than HDD.
I believe the faster ram support for the mobo is 1866
[QUOTE=StevenW;39799062]I believe the faster ram support for the mobo is 1866[/QUOTE]
Be careful as it looks like there is PC3 15000 and PC3 14900 for 1866. 1866 may also be the overclock speed.
HDD's are usually seen to slow down computers (Fraps does not encode the video and therafore produces huge filesizes).. But for editing 16gb might be nice.
make sure you record your video's on a diferrent drive than the game.
[QUOTE=taipan;39808862]make sure you record your video's on a diferrent drive than the game.[/QUOTE]
Yeah - this is very important, if you use HDD you could buy 2 and go RAID0 with them if you're serious about it.
[sp]Also, where the fuck did that apostrophe come from? video's? lol[/sp]
[QUOTE=Killervalon;39809043]Yeah - this is very important, if you use HDD you could buy 2 and go RAID0 with them if you're serious about it.
[sp]Also, where the fuck did that apostrophe come from? video's? lol[/sp][/QUOTE]
Dutch spelling of an english word nvm. :v:
I record with fraps alot, what are the advantages to recording on a different drive
[QUOTE=Hailedbean;39810896]I record with fraps alot, what are the advantages to recording on a different drive[/QUOTE]
Better game performance since you don't write a shit load data to the drive while also trying to read data from it.
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