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

RoyalMarine

newegg are selling 4gb sticks of ram
prices are wicked high, but thats understandable for the beginning right?
i can see 2 x 2 sets dropping like flies soon!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231181

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231182

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231183

but who in their right mind needs 16gb other than showing off?

PogMoThoin

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

RoyalMarine

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

AlmightyCushion

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

PogMoThoin

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

AlmightyCushion

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

PogMoThoin

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

blackgold>>

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

The difference is miniscule. 1% maybe ....

RoyalMarine

blackgold>> wrote: »

The difference is miniscule. 1% maybe ....

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

blackgold>>

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.

OmegaRed

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

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

blackgold>>

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

PogMoThoin

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.

RoyalMarine

what do you use to monitor the ram usage?

PogMoThoin

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

MooseJam

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

PogMoThoin

: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

alansweeney100

I thought newegg didn't ship internationaly

RoyalMarine

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