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True ram used
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
Last edited by DeadEyeDeNNi$; 11-18-2010 at 09:50 PM.
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Right about now, 4 GiB is about what you can justify putting in your machine if the most memory-intensive task you perform is playing games. Unless you have a specific need for more memory, or you multitask heavy applications alongside playing games, using 4 GiB of high-throughput RAM will serve you better than using 8 GiB of average specification RAM. Buying RAM is usually a spend-as-you-need-it deal. Save for the industry messing up their demand expectations, and raw material prices fluctuating, the prices are always on a downward slope, so buying 4 GiB of good RAM now, and another 4 GiB of identical RAM two years down the road when you can put it to use makes the most sense.
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uh... chess programs?
Originally Posted by Zero
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Nah, I'm either going 8 gigs of 9-9-24 or 16g 9-9-24
Still up in the air as I wanna get a matched set up front
Prolly going either Corsar, Mushin, or G Skill - 4x2x2
got 6 atm and want more than I need now to make sire they're matched for the future upgrades
PS- any takers on 3 stix of Kingston 2gig 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1333?
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DeadEyeDeNNi$ <ibis.a>
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What are you doing to warrant putting 16, or even just 8 GiB of RAM in your machine?
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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
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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.
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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.
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