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newegg are selling 4gb sticks.... 16gb you say?

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    PogMoThoin
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    Expect no overclock at all with 8Gb, never mind 16Gb, 2 hard on the northbridge


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    RoyalMarine
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    true. and cas @ 6-6-6-18 doesnt seem nice either.


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    AlmightyCushion
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    What would anyone need 8GB or 16GBs of ram for (bar increasing your e-penis)?


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    PogMoThoin
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    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    What would anyone need 8GB or 16GBs of ram for (bar increasing your e-penis)?

    Cubase, music production eats ram, although most of the pro's use macs.........not because macs are any better, but thats their epenis :p


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    AlmightyCushion
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    Would they really benefit from going from 4GBs to 8 or 16 though?


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    PogMoThoin
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    If they were running out of ram, then yes. I've seen a friend eat 3-4 Gb quite easily with Cubase, Reason & Abelton etc all running together. Synths & wav files eat ram


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    blackgold>>
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    true. and cas @ 6-6-6-18 doesnt seem nice either.
    The difference is miniscule. 1% maybe ....


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    RoyalMarine
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    blackgold>> wrote: »
    The difference is miniscule. 1% maybe ....

    would there be that little difference between 4 4 4 12?


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    blackgold>>
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    Well as ther ddr2 increases from ddr2 to ddr3 to ddr4 etc all them numbers are going up anyway.

    Example
    You pay €60 for 4 gigs cas 6-6-6-18
    You pay $270 for 4 gigs cas 4-4-4-12
    So you have to wait 2 extra clock cycles for data to be ready big deal ?
    You won't notice a thing so keep your money.


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    OmegaRed
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    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    Cubase, music production eats ram, although most of the pro's use macs.........not because macs are any better, but thats their epenis :p

    So you think a windows Vista system wouldn't need 8 gigs for things like Crysis or Assasins Creed. 4 gigs would do?


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    blackgold>>
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    4 gigs is bucketloads remember ram and memory are to different things :)
    Most of it will be your hard disk being used anyway .


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    PogMoThoin
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    OmegaRed wrote: »
    So you think a windows Vista system wouldn't need 8 gigs for things like Crysis or Assasins Creed. 4 gigs would do?

    Nope, 4Gb is loads. I got 4Gb here, 1.5Gb is eaten by vista, Av prog, dreamscene & gadgets etc.......2.5Gb left over is loads for anything you can throw at it.

    Flight sim X on absolute full detail was the only application that I've seen nearly fill the 4gb.


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    RoyalMarine
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    what do you use to monitor the ram usage?


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    PogMoThoin
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    Task manager,

    I've also got a gadget which displays each core load & ram usage, here, and another which displays temperatures on each core, everest runs on startup in the background, here


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    MooseJam
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    Is it not the case that vista can´t use anything more than 4 gig or so I´ve heard


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    PogMoThoin
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    :rolleyes: Nope,

    Vista 64 bit max ram:
    Home Basic: 8 GB
    Home Premium: 16 GB
    Ultimate: 128+ GB
    Business: 128+ GB
    Enterprise: 128+ GB

    From here


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    alansweeney100
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    I thought newegg didn't ship internationaly


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    RoyalMarine
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    they dont. but for those who have family in the states, and id say a lot of people here do, its handy.


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