8gb ram. A necessity? A big difference seen between 8gb and 4gb?

[chouchou]

Sup all

Just wondering if it's worth it to upgrade from 4gbram to 8gbram.
Was thinking of grabbing 2 more sticks of 2gb mushkin redlines pc2-8000 ddr2-1000.

Is there noticeable difference in speed/etc when running 8 gb's instead of 4?

Thanks!

[MacJunky]

Only if the software you are using now is maxing 4GB. Otherwise it is a waste.
I can say with 99% certainty that you are not limited by having only 4GB...

[Jackquelegs]

First, you won't notice any increase in speed with more RAM if your current setup is not lacking RAM. You could, with more ram, disable paging files on the HDD, and it'll be a tid bit faster.

Painful lesson from Vista and SSD. Since paging files need to be disabled to reduce read/write on the drive, I constantly "run out" from my 4gb ram when running a game, or most productive applications.

[martin_metal_88]

Do You Really Need More Than 6 GB Of RAM? : Is ?Too Much? Really Just Enough?

Tom's do this few week ago,according to them using vista and gaming hard there is no difference between 3GB and 12GB ( 99.6vs 99,9 ) Read it you will understand what I mean.

The only place mor than 4GB is good is when you are doing vistualisation on morethan 3 machine.

Ask for more

[bojangles]

No difference at all if you're not even using the full resources of 4GB. People just buy into it thinking they have a killer rig with RAM they'll never use, so I usually say I'll buy a kit from them for $40 if it's good stuff.

"Yeah man, this rig is killer! It got a 320GB hard drive, 512MB graphics card, 12GB of DDR3 RAM, 3.33GHz processor and loaded with the Latest Windows Vista"

"And what do you use this for?"

"Office Applications..."

/facepalm "And you don't know what half the stuff is in there..."

[gingerbee]

oh that and i surf on it too so ha ha ROFL thanks bojangles well said mate.

[Chilly]

Well, it depends on what you do with your system... I typically use a little more than 4GB, hell I use more than 8GB most of the time, in fact I'm finding that 12GB is a little small.

[DarKStar]

That's quite a system you have there LOL - 8GB for most people right now is overkill. If you are still running a 32bit OS and running 32bit apps your answer is simple there - WASTE.... Your 32bit OS will recognize 4GB, but only little over 3 available, out of that only 2GB can be used AT ONCE by a 32bit application. I personally can see good use for 8GB or more, in a 64bit environment and a rendering app, rendering straight to a RAMdisc :D For most people and gamers, 4GB is fine.

[NightRain]

I didn't find a big upgrade from 4GB to 6GB, but it really depends. I have 6GB now and it is more than enough for me, I've considered getting 12GB but it wouldn't really help me much.

[Cowboy]

I run 2 gigs FTW!!!
It all depends on how you feel about your e-peen.

Feel inadequate? Buy more RAM lol.

Originally Posted by bojangles

"Yeah man, this rig is killer! It got a 320GB hard drive, 512MB graphics card, 12GB of DDR3 RAM, 3.33GHz processor and loaded with the Latest Windows Vista"

"And what do you use this for?"

"umm, World of Warcraft "

/facepalm "And you don't know what half the stuff is in there..."