True ram used

[DeadEyeDeNNi$]

Does anyone TRULY know the max amount of RAM used in the most demanding situation/game/etc that there is today?

Discuss plz as I'm ordering more ATM......

PS-- I don't need to see the matrix for allowable RAM for the different windows application -- I have Win 7 Pro and can use up to 192 gigs but that is NOT my question

[Fluffy Frufflebottoms]

Right about now, 4 GiB is about what you can justify putting in your machine if the most memory-intensive task you perform is playing games. Unless you have a specific need for more memory, or you multitask heavy applications alongside playing games, using 4 GiB of high-throughput RAM will serve you better than using 8 GiB of average specification RAM. Buying RAM is usually a spend-as-you-need-it deal. Save for the industry messing up their demand expectations, and raw material prices fluctuating, the prices are always on a downward slope, so buying 4 GiB of good RAM now, and another 4 GiB of identical RAM two years down the road when you can put it to use makes the most sense.

[StarsMine]

uh... chess programs?

[DeadEyeDeNNi$]

Nah, I'm either going 8 gigs of 9-9-24 or 16g 9-9-24

Still up in the air as I wanna get a matched set up front

Prolly going either Corsar, Mushin, or G Skill - 4x2x2

got 6 atm and want more than I need now to make sire they're matched for the future upgrades


PS- any takers on 3 stix of Kingston 2gig 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1333?

[Fluffy Frufflebottoms]

What are you doing to warrant putting 16, or even just 8 GiB of RAM in your machine?

[DeadEyeDeNNi$]

What are you doing to warrant putting 16, or even just 8 GiB of RAM in your machine?

The games of today are pretty hard on most of the components of a pc and I have my main box that has 8 gigs and see a noticeble difference in seamless transitions when either going from one zone, next area, crowded areas with online gaming, etc so I am going to bring my new laptop up to at least that level and want matched because as u know it peforms better.

It also develops less stress on the cpu trying to compensate for what the RAM should be handling in the 1st place.



PS- any takers on 3 stix of Kingston 2gig 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1333? -- Matched

[Jeimuzu]

Apparently I don't have enough ram to use Vegas Video Editor HD.. It doesn't seem to let me render videos without cutting off half way saying all the memory is used, despite having task manager open and only half is used. 4 GB of ddr3 ram just isn't enough I guess.

[Fluffy Frufflebottoms]

The games of today are pretty hard on most of the components of a pc and I have my main box that has 8 gigs and see a noticeble difference in seamless transitions when either going from one zone, next area, crowded areas with online gaming, etc so I am going to bring my new laptop up to at least that level and want matched because as u know it peforms better.

It also develops less stress on the cpu trying to compensate for what the RAM should be handling in the 1st place.

I don't know what you mean by the CPU compensating for what the RAM is supposed to be handling, unless you're talking about writing to a page file. In which games are you seeing a performance boost by using 8 GiB, rather than 4 GiB of memory, and how much memory is the process using for that to make sense? I don't recall ever seeing a game with a functioning main process eating up more than 2.5 GiB of memory.

[jssaylor2007]

I don't know what you mean by the CPU compensating for what the RAM is supposed to be handling, unless you're talking about writing to a page file. In which games are you seeing a performance boost by using 8 GiB, rather than 4 GiB of memory, and how much memory is the process using for that to make sense? I don't recall ever seeing a game with a functioning main process eating up more than 2.5 GiB of memory.

I have 6 gigs and isnt nearly enough. My thing is I usually have skype, css, steam, eve online, firefox with around 30 tabs, megaupload, and maybe a few others i forgot to mention running all at the same time.

[Fluffy Frufflebottoms]

I have 6 gigs and isnt nearly enough. My thing is I usually have skype, css, steam, eve online, firefox with around 30 tabs, megaupload, and maybe a few others i forgot to mention running all at the same time.

That's to be expected, though. That falls under the heavy multitasking provisions above.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

That's to be expected, though. That falls under the heavy multitasking provisions above.

just cause dennis is old doesn't mean he can't multitask.

who else do you think keeps the internet running?

[Fluffy Frufflebottoms]

just cause dennis is old doesn't mean he can't multitask.

That's why I made it a provision in absence of having an actual usage scenario to base my reply on. Without that, it's sorta like asking how much gas you need to drive an indeterminate distance in an unspecified vehicle. D:


who else do you think keeps the internet running?

I did, back when I was still employed. :(

[DeadEyeDeNNi$]

ROFL, Thx Aco :)

At most any given time I have 6 - SIX- boxes surrounding me that are all networked through a new Cisco E3000 router with a new Cisco 8 port switch with more in the shelf if I need it so I'd say that I "might" qualify for one of those ppl that keep the internet running :P


PS- That's just half of what I have available that's pretty much up to date.


EXTREME 50 FTW !!!

http://www.comcast.com/About/PressRelease/PressReleaseDetail.ashx?PRID=814

[StarsMine]

ROFL, Thx Aco :)

At most any given time I have 6 - SIX- boxes surrounding me that are all networked through a new Cisco E3000 router with a new Cisco 8 port switch with more in the shelf if I need it so I'd say that I "might" qualify for one of those ppl that keep the internet running :P


PS- That's just half of what I have available that's pretty much up to date.


EXTREME 50 FTW !!!

http://www.comcast.com/About/PressRelease/PressReleaseDetail.ashx?PRID=814

I only have performance :D, it does me good for the most part as usually I get perfomance plus
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1037569764.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
http://www.pingtest.net/result/28481802.png (http://www.pingtest.net) I choose austin beacuse thats where hacks is based

[Fluffy Frufflebottoms]

ROFL, Thx Aco :)

At most any given time I have 6 - SIX- boxes surrounding me that are all networked through a new Cisco E3000 router with a new Cisco 8 port switch with more in the shelf if I need it so I'd say that I "might" qualify for one of those ppl that keep the internet running :P


PS- That's just half of what I have available that's pretty much up to date.


You don't have to hide behind fancy names. We all know that they have Linksys trivialities under the hood. :>

[DeadEyeDeNNi$]

You don't have to hide behind fancy names. We all know that they have Linksys trivialities under the hood. :>



:wtg:

[mag36]

A general rule of thumb is if your using 40% of your RAM just at normal/idle conditions you need double the memory.
I Plan on buying me more RAM specifically Crucial Ballistix Tracer 6GB (3 x 2GB) (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148250&cm_re=crucial_ballistix-_-20-148-250-_-Product)
just cause I want a little more bling to my case
And probably 2 1TB of SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185) in RAID 0

Read many good things about theses hard drive's performances

[DeadEyeDeNNi$]

A general rule of thumb is if your using 40% of your RAM just at normal/idle conditions you need double the memory.
I Plan on buying me more RAM specifically Crucial Ballistix Tracer 6GB (3 x 2GB) (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148250&cm_re=crucial_ballistix-_-20-148-250-_-Product)
just cause I want a little more bling to my case
And probably 2 1TB of SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185) in RAID 0

Read many good things about theses hard drive's performances

Those look pretty good Mag, but I run these in Raid 0 and I have had NO probs and run great!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136563&cm_re=raptor_hard_drive-_-22-136-563-_-Product

Before you say, "But the Samsungs have more storage space" - I run 4 HD's in most boxes and use them for the storage I need while using the Raptors for the OS etc.

Check the search time as it's fast and the 10k walks the dog

[StarsMine]

id rather have a 1 1tb 7200 then 4 300gb 10k drives
10k just isnt much faster, and raid 0 just makes me uncomfortable, one dive and boom

just get a SSD and a HDD

[mag36]

Those look pretty good Mag, but I run these in Raid 0 and I have had NO probs and run great!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136563&cm_re=raptor_hard_drive-_-22-136-563-_-Product

Before you say, "But the Samsungs have more storage space" - I run 4 HD's in most boxes and use them for the storage I need while using the Raptors for the OS etc.

Check the search time as it's fast and the 10k walks the dog

I know Raptor drives are faster but i cant see to spent that much for 300gb but these samsungs do a surprising good job at keeping up with the Raptor drives at only 7200 rpms


id rather have a 1 1tb 7200 then 4 300gb 10k drives
10k just isnt much faster, and raid 0 just makes me uncomfortable, one dive and boom

just get a SSD and a HDD

I know thats why i think im going with these saw some pretty impressive specs on Tomshardware (http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2009-3.5-desktop-hard-drive-charts/h2benchw-3.12-Avg-
Read-Throughput,1010.html)

This is average read speeds

[brentidge]

well i have only 2 gigs of ram not going to get more till i upgrade my motherboard becouse mine is only ddr2 and i dont want to buy ram for a few months and it seems to be running fine i usually am playing youtube while i am playing cs s or black ops i no i am a badd ass and your all jelus of my 2 gigs of ddr2

[DeadEyeDeNNi$]

id rather have a 1 1tb 7200 then 4 300gb 10k drives
10k just isnt much faster, and raid 0 just makes me uncomfortable, one dive and boom

just get a SSD and a HDD

Well Stars, heres the deal, If U think that the "BOOM" factor is limited to my RAID 0 vs your 1 TB then ur wrong.

ANY HD is subject to a "BOOM" factor and when that happens I don't give a rats ass wtf u are runing ALL info is GONE.

SO........ That's why they make 1-5TB back optional external HD to keep ur shit safe!


PLUS---------------- If U really wanna go techy then do a quad raid where u can mirror image a RAID 0 on a seperate set of Raptors OR any other comapatable pair of HD to have all ur goodies safe if u ever crash and burn...

LOL -- and u thot I was just another pretty face :P Not bad for an ol guy HUH ??


Cmon ppl I KNOW ur smarter than that :P


My next project is to build a SUPER COMPUTER with 4 boxes ALL identical with the best hardware avaiable atm + having them all linked operating under 1 entity

IF u have any links or advice,, let me know (pls don't insult my intelligence with a link to Toms Hdwr + I don't mean that in an belittling way)

[StarsMine]

I never said the boom factor was limited to raid 0, however it raises the chance of a drive failure quite a bit, 2 drives are 2 times as likely to fail, 3 drives are 3 times as likely to fail, and so forth. And raid 10(or 01... whatever the hell it is) that you describe is insanely expensive.

Drive failure is something that is not uncommon in my household, (both WD and Seagate, as thats what we usually get) so my uneasiness about drive failure is founded.

Although SSD raid 0 looks interesting to me as there failure rate is so small, and SSD raid 0 is alot more noticeable then HDD 10k(or hell even 15k) raid 0
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-array-hard-drive,2775.html

[DeadEyeDeNNi$]

well,,

I actually took the time to read up a bit on SSD's..... at this link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

It appears that while the SSD 'might" be the wave of the future, the future of SSD's is not here yet...

The writing + rewriting will diminish the drive quite rapidly vs the std HDD available atm, PLUS, if U defrag, along with any other std maintenance of any box and its components, it will wear out in HALF the time or sometimes less.

Soooooooooo, until they have perfected the SSD scenario, my take and advice is,,,STAY THE HELL AWAY from this "trendy" product until it has been perfected beyond fault, at which time I may even use them for my rigs, but DEFINITELY not now and as I understand it not in the next 6 months either...........

Obviously your call, BUT I am trying to give you all a HEADS UP, because I can almost guarantee the SSD of now stats WILL fail and if you want to jump into new technology w/o a multitude of testing, throw away your hard earned money, the by all means be a free beta tester for the new SSD's BUT, please make them your secondary HDD and if you do not, then remember ONE thing when the "shit hits the fan" which wil be

I T O L D Y OU SO


DISCLAIMER - I do not work for, nor am I related to anyone to the best of my knowledge, that works for, has worked for, or represents, cisco, Linksys, or any of its affiliates, vendors, ortherwist the past\
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[Tickle Me Emo]

The biggest flaw in SSDs as far as I know has actually been controller reliability - especially the JMicron controllers which were common prior to the recent Sandforce controllers being released. It seems the Sandforce controllers are holding up better, but still not the best (higher-than-HDD rates of DOAs, etc.). This is my own ancedotal hearsay, though, haven't really researched it.

As far as write-erase cycle limitations, here are a couple useful things:

WD white paper on NAND flash in SSD applications: http://www.wdc.com/WDProducts/SSD/whitepapers/en/NAND_Evolution_0812.pdf
Article I found with some easier-to-digest information than the white paper: http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html

There are other similar articles but they're nothing more than dumbed-down versions of the above.

While MLC NAND flash chips have been improving, the typical quote I've heard for endurance is 10,000 write-erase cycles per block minimum (~5% or less, usually less, of all blocks failing this early, so not a major concern), 100,000 typical (~95% or more of all blocks lasting this long), and going up from there. I've heard some claiming write limits in the millions - but I'm not so sure for MLC-based SSDs that this is true. It's certainly possible that SLC has achieved that, but no consumer-grade SSD uses SLC flash. Perhaps these higher numbers have been achieved in enterprise-grade SSDs, but I'm concerned only with consumer-grade.

In any case, if you take the data used in the article above for constant-write testing, and extrapolate it to fit a modern Sandforce-based SSD, you end up with an approximate lifetime of 1.5 years for a 120GB SSD - with the drive being written continuously at maximum throughput. This will never, ever happen in a consumer environment - it would rarely even happen in a corporate or educational environment.

Even with heavy usage, in a consumer environment an SSD will last for 5-10 years easily before it begins to fail from write-erase cycle limitations. It's far more likely that your controller will go bad before the actual flash chips do - and for all the talk of HDDs having infinite write-erase cycles, they sure as hell have a finite number of move-the-stupid-ass-mechanical-arm cycles, as I've experienced many times.

In short, write-erase cycle limits are not a reason to avoid SSDs, and regardless of what drive solution you use, you should always have an external back up of your data if you care about it.

Oh, and don't browse Wikipedia for serious research... lol, though I'm a bit confused how you got those doomsday ideas from the Wiki article, you'll notice the article I referenced above is also referenced in the Wiki (citation #52).

[Fluffy Frufflebottoms]

well,,

I actually took the time to read up a bit on SSD's..... at this link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

It appears that while the SSD 'might" be the wave of the future, the future of SSD's is not here yet...

The writing + rewriting will diminish the drive quite rapidly vs the std HDD available atm, PLUS, if U defrag, along with any other std maintenance of any box and its components, it will wear out in HALF the time or sometimes less.

Soooooooooo, until they have perfected the SSD scenario, my take and advice is,,,STAY THE HELL AWAY from this "trendy" product until it has been perfected beyond fault, at which time I may even use them for my rigs, but DEFINITELY not now and as I understand it not in the next 6 months either...........

Obviously your call, BUT I am trying to give you all a HEADS UP, because I can almost guarantee the SSD of now stats WILL fail and if you want to jump into new technology w/o a multitude of testing, throw away your hard earned money, the by all means be a free beta tester for the new SSD's BUT, please make them your secondary HDD and if you do not, then remember ONE thing when the "shit hits the fan" which wil be

I T O L D Y OU SO


DISCLAIMER - I do not work for, nor am I related to anyone to the best of my knowledge, that works for, has worked for, or represents, cisco, Linksys, or any of its affiliates, vendors, ortherwist the past\
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Woah, there. Don't yell, we'll get off your lawn.

In addition to what Tickle Me Emo posted, you need to understand that SSDs aren't part of some crazy new wave of the future. They've been around for a good long while, and they're built on other technologies that have been around for much longer. There's no consumer "beta testing," nor any lack of reliability testing at all with these products, and no chance that they'll start failing arbitrarily. The thing about solid-state hardware is that aside from environmental effects, the consequences of which are well known and not pertinent to the product, it's entirely possible to accurately simulate years of use in hours of testing, and of course this is done extensively before any product hits the market. The drives sold today will continue to outperform traditional mechanical drives for many years, and will likely outlive them as well.

It's funny that you should mention Cisco in your disclaimer. Bar none, and by miles and miles, solid-state storage in Cisco products has the highest failure rate of any solid-state storage implementation that I have ever worked with.

Not that the disclaimer is really necessary. Cisco are precisely the opposite of you. Not only do they embrace new technology; they also market and sell it before they've matured it.

[StarsMine]

Also why would you want to defrag a SSD?
it doesnt make them faster as memory isnt stored the way HDD are

[DeadEyeDeNNi$]

The Cisco disclaimer was form an earlier post that was actually on topic a while back, and the part about the defrag was mentioned in a article that claimed execessive wear + tear, other than that the RAM issue got kinda lost I guess

:banghead:

Anyway, good sound opinionated discussion, I enjoyed it and learned a few things along the way...

[Tickle Me Emo]

Discussion is fun. As for the RAM issue, 4GB is enough for almost any single modern application, but if you do a lot of multi-tasking go with 8GB (can also somewhat future-proof your build). If you're worried about being able to upgrade down the road, go with 2x4GB sticks, and leave 2 slots open for an additional 8GB later. Those 4GB sticks are still coming down in price, I'd really not recommend putting all 16 in at once. It doesn't matter if all 4 are matched sticks or if you have 2 different brands, the memory is dual channel, not quad channel. As long as each dual channel set is the same it will run fine. :)

[DeadEyeDeNNi$]

Discussion is fun. As for the RAM issue, 4GB is enough for almost any single modern application, but if you do a lot of multi-tasking go with 8GB (can also somewhat future-proof your build). If you're worried about being able to upgrade down the road, go with 2x4GB sticks, and leave 2 slots open for an additional 8GB later. Those 4GB sticks are still coming down in price, I'd really not recommend putting all 16 in at once. It doesn't matter if all 4 are matched sticks or if you have 2 different brands, the memory is dual channel, not quad channel. As long as each dual channel set is the same it will run fine. :)

Actually I'm just going to add 1 more matching 2g stick to make it 8g for now at $32 then later I'll do the 16 gig when/if needed (unless the laptop becomes outdated) with the 4g stix which was my intention all along but no reason to spend the extra money atm.

Thx