Is 12gb of ram too much?

[tollickd]

Is 12gb of ram too much? I will be using a i7 920 and crossfire 2 x 5850?

or should I stick with 6 gb?

 

[mdsx1950]

Is 12gb of ram too much? I will be using a i7 920 and crossfire 2 x 5850?

or should I stick with 6 gb?

Go for 12 if you have cash. It will be no use now.. You wont see a difference either. But on the long run.. You wont have to upgrade for another 15 years lol

 

[DirectorC]

You can always decide to make an 8GB RAM drive to play a video game off of!

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Get 3 x 2 GiB. You can add another 3 x 2 GiB when it is actually necessary. 12 GiB is a waste for now unless you are running a heavy 64-bit CAD application.

 

[Nick89]

Is 12gb of ram too much?

yes.

 

[tollickd]

I am thinking to getting 6 gb now and get a SSD hard drive has my primary

 

[DirectorC]

I am thinking to getting 6 gb now and get a SSD hard drive has my primary

I would put two of these in RAID0.

 

[Wile E]

As I said in the other thread, grab 6GB of ram, and throw the money you save at a better psu, or more storage, or some other peripheral.

 

[Fourstaff]

Go for 12GB to extend your epeen!

TBH I dont think you will need anything more than 4GB or 6GB for now.

 

[SummerDays]

I wish memory prices would drop, so I could upgrade from 12GB to 24GB. lol

You can either spend the money on fast 6 GB or go value 12 GB.

Windows runs ideally with about 18 GB apparently (for caching etc). But yah, most people don't need 12. My ram usage is listed at 15-18% most of the time.

 

[PaulieG]

Total waste of money. Just get some good clocking low latency ram and put the money you save toward something else more important. You will always have the option later on to add more ram IF it is ever needed. Hell, I'm not sure that I've ever seen my 4GB memory go above 40% except under OCCT testing.

 

[Wile E]

Total waste of money. Just get some good clocking low latency ram and put the money you save toward something else more important. You will always have the option later on to add more ram IF it is ever needed. Hell, I'm not sure that I've ever seen my 4GB memory go above 40% except under OCCT testing.

I've had vlite use 8GB when slipstreaming a service pack into Vista. It was kinda crazy to see. It was legit too, not a bug. Guess it caches most work into memory.

Other than that, never even really maxed 4GB either.

 

[lemonadesoda]

If you are asking the question... then you dont need it. The few people that really need 12GB know they need it, and get it. For everyday use, nope. 6GB is enough.

You will get more of an "upgrade" from using the cash to get your OS onto a SSD.

 

[SummerDays]

With the i7 series of processors, each portion of the CPU has access to it's own individual memory, so there may be a performance increase in having a full 4 GB available to each unit.

Ram is never a waste of money, if it were it wouldn't be so damn expensive!


Think about the new flash memory drives that are coming out. They only have 250 mB/s access speeds, and then compare that to the speed of DDR3 ram connected directly to an i7 processor.

 

[Hunt3r]

I think you will not be able to use the 12GB think 6Gb is already a good size for your system
Bye

 

[Kreij]

There is such thing as "too much RAM".

 

[lemonadesoda]

There is such thing as "too much RAM" == There is such a thing as "too much sex"

Yes, yes, yes all you philosophers! Fact is, for some of us, it's not true!

 

[MK4512]

Ask yourself this? Are you running 3 Crysiss' (plural Crysis ) at once? Or some serious autoCAD? If not, no need. Also, make sure that if you do upgrade you have the right OS. I've heard that Windows Home Premium only supports up to 8GB of ram, Professional = 12 and Ultimate = Infinite.

 

[MilkyWay]

12gb is far to much plus what happens when better clocking better latency ram is out?
Its better to have either 4gb or 6gb and a nice latency.

I think Crysis is like sheep, one sheep 2 sheep 3 sheep, 1 Crysis 2 Crysis a set of Crysis lol

 

[Kreij]

There is such thing as "too much RAM" == There is such a thing as "too much sex"

Lemon, my friend, that has to be one of the worst analogies I've seen in a long time.

Just remember, that your CPU does not get sore from too much RAM, and there is no such thing as a RTD (RAM Transmitted Disease).

 

[AsRock]

Total waste of money. Just get some good clocking low latency ram and put the money you save toward something else more important. You will always have the option later on to add more ram IF it is ever needed. Hell, I'm not sure that I've ever seen my 4GB memory go above 40% except under OCCT testing.

I use all 6GB before i start using the OS as Vista \ Win 7 caches every thing. Is there a point when it stops caching lol.

So even with 12GB would it take all that too ?.

 

[Kreij]

Vista ultimate on my rig never users more that about 2.5GB of RAM.

That is not the point though.
This is TPU. When have we ever said that something is "enough"????
You're just surfing the web. Is a dual core enough? NO!!! You definetly want an overclocked quad!!
You're game runs at 200fps, is that enough? NO!! OC that GC and get 250FPS!!

This website and all us folks have never really thought about what we need. If we did we wouldn't be frying mobos and GPUs just to get one more MHz out of them.

So ... get more RAM

 

[Deleted member 3]

Total waste of money. Just get some good clocking low latency ram and put the money you save toward something else more important. You will always have the option later on to add more ram IF it is ever needed. Hell, I'm not sure that I've ever seen my 4GB memory go above 40% except under OCCT testing.

How much difference does low latency RAM make then? I think it's just as noticable as the 12Gb vs 6Gb.

 

[SummerDays]

Latency isn't as much of an issue on DDR3 as it was on DDR2.

Basically the faster the speed of your ram, the more you can overclock your base clock to overclock your cpu.

 

[lemonadesoda]

Lemon, my friend, that has to be one of the worst analogies I've seen in a long time.

Just remember, that your CPU does not get sore from too much RAM, and there is no such thing as a RTD (RAM Transmitted Disease).

Nah, you misunderstood, what I meant was: SAYING "There is such thing as "too much RAM"" is equivalent to saving "There is such a thing as "too much sex""

Which is obviously nonesense.

RAM Transmitted Disease? Look it up! <here> he-he

Anyway, 12GB is a good thing. Set up a RAMdisk and a folder mirror service... and mirror www.tpu.com. Then you can have instant lightning speed TPU. What could be better than that, eh?!