The Totally Rad Guild

I'm ordering my 4GB RAM tomorrow and was curious to know if it would improve my fps.

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz

I'm on a Macbook with half the RAM but the same processor, and I rarely have any major issues. ... Aside from the last minute of Wintergrasp.

What was your fps like on Putricide last night? I was running 30fps then 8fps the moment we started

More ram will decrease load times, but I don’t think it will have a dramatic effect on FPS. To increase FPS usually means faster video card.

Video card? Background program? RAM speed? All drivers up to date?

Additional ram usually doesn't equal fps, like wilx said, unless you're way low. The above questions may be helpful for us to evaluate and lend a hand.

I upgraded my ram and video card recently and it had 0 if not a negative impact on my FPS in WoW.
It's hard to find any useful info, but my take from reading threads of people bitching about performance in 25mans is that WoW (for whatever reason) is heavily dependent on the CPU rather than GPU and it is easily bottlenecked.

RAM probably won't do shit for your FPS, other than reducing the occasional gfx lag spike and maybe load times.
That said, I dunno squat about macs.

Chipset Model: GeForce 8600M GT
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 128 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0407
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 3175
Displays:
Color LCD:
Resolution: 1440 x 900
Depth: 32-Bit Color
Core Image: Hardware Accelerated
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Built-In: Yes


Ram Speed:

Type: DDR2 SDRAM
Speed: 667 MHz

What do you mean by drivers up to date? Mac users get Software Updates from time to time which I am up to date on.

Miises:

I had the impression that RAM would help because well, Blizz techies have suggested it and I noticed people on the Mac Tech Forums mentioning they upgrade their ram and they notice a great improvement. But, it would be great if you gave me some suggestions on what to do.

Pretty glad I didn't make the order yet

The two things that stick out to me are:

Low video ram (128mb): This stinks because it's a laptop and hard to upgrade
Low RAM Speed: This you can change, although i'm not sure how much affect it will have on the fps.

Are you running on low video settings on wow?

According to Tom's Hardware my 9800 GTX+ is 5 times faster than yours. If a serious Boss encounter can slow mine down under 15fps, yours would be under 3fps.

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/gami ... ,1697.html

Yes, while the mobile versions of video card are great for video performance/power they lack a bit in the first of the two. That said, on lower video settings, it seems to me that you should be able to get at least 20fps during encounters. Let us know how it goes!