Help with Ram question.

I have the 15" Macbook Pro with 4 Gigs of ram. I was wondering if it is worth paying 100$ to upgrade to 8 Gigs of ram since I do play a bit of video games, Thank you.

Well if you got the 2.0 Ghz 15" 2011 MacBook Pro it can help as you got a lousy video card that shares memory with the main memory. So a little more memory might help.
If you got the 2011 2.2 Ghz 15" MBP or better, then it can help, but not on the graphics as you got the 1GB Radeion 6750M and it's a beast.
See Crucial.com, punch in your machine and they will recommned the 8GB kit you need.
(you have two 2-GB modules with only two RAM slots, so you need two 4-GB RAM modules now.)
Next time, read the specs of the machines, ask online and compare what each machine can do before going and wasting your precious money.
Barefeats.com is a good site for benchmarking.
So is this site
http://www.cbscores.com/index.php?sort=ogl&order=desc
and this one too
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/

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Quote from: nellinil on 10-July-10, 10:27:51
yes the psu has a single +12v rail with 21A rating, but somehow i don't feel the problem is because of it. When my system successfully boots, it works properly. I can play or work on high performance softwares for any number of hours without fail, which ought not to happen if the psu is bad.
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I don't understand the answer to the question below. Why doesn't it print "pre " first since this is the first line of main?
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Hope someone can help.
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Given:
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hi,
i need some help with this piece of code. wat would it output to the screen?
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2] You cannot multiply an array object. The contents? fine , go ahead but NOT the array
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Jim, thank you for your very helpful reply!
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I seen where it said if something happens to your computer that you will loose the music you bought and downloaded . Will you also loose the information about your itunes gift card ?How do you run a diagnostic before you buy ? Is there a phone number to contat someone in this case , or could it be sent to my E-Mail address ? Also I would like to thank the people that helped me with my first question .

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Runa diagnostic of what before you buy what?
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OK I have tried to understand this allocation stuff and I just am not confident that I'll get it right.
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http://www.apple.com/support/imac/intel/
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