How much RAM?

[Joko]

How to know how much ram to buy, i am currently thinking 6 GB and then later add 6 more.

but should i start buying 12 GB or should 6 GB be enough for most new games.

what i intend to buy:

Intel i7 980x (extreme edition)

NH-D14

ASUS Rampage III Extreme

ZOTAC GTX480 AMP edition

Corsair AX1200

Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium

 

[tinytomlogan]

Id really say that for games 6gb is fine dude

 

[Joko]

well also gonna be doing some overclocking forgot to say that, but not gonna be the extreme kind just a little, an on air.

and ofcourse also benchmarking. possibly even jumping out in some folding, if i find time ;D

 

[tinytomlogan]

then 6gb is still fine mate.

 

[Joko]

great, gives a little more money to play with ;D

 

[Br1t1shB33f]

Appologies. Anyway good luck mate with ur pc build

 

[Joko]

well im not that much into buying used stuff, as i cant be sure it will work corectly and that they tell the truth.

 

[toonshorty]

What exactly will you be using the PC for?

If you're using it for purely gaming then as Tom said, 6GB should do fine.

If you're using it for video editing and encoding and other utilities like that then you may want 12GB.

 

[Diablo]

Remember overclocking is harder with all the memory channels full

 

[hmmblah]

You won't even touch 6GB on a gaming PC.

 

[KapteinFruit]

Even 2GB is usually enough for most games man. 4GB is more then enough so that means 6GB is more then enough. 12GB is just over kill by far as long as you don't do any editing. And I've also heard that it's better to have three out of six RAM slots filled with RAM if you're going to over clock.

 

[D4RK5iDERS]

2GB can be enough, but i would leave headroom for other processes to run and get a 4 or 6GB (If I had enough money

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[AMDFTW]

i dont even use all 4gb on my machine day to day use and gaming

 

[D4RK5iDERS]

i dont even use all 4gb on my machine day to day use and gaming

Exactly, but it is nice if you know your system is capable of a lot of 'high process' consumption

 

[yggdrasil]

I've noticed a lot of people fill up there RAM even on start up fill up 4GB of RAM and while using the PC fill 6GB, When you turn on your PC if your filling 4GB of RAM ur basically coping 4GB of data from your HDD to your RAM so it's to take as long as it takes to copy 4GB from your HDD will be how long your PC takes to start up on top of every thing else it has to do.

I have 8GB of RAM and I do video editing and photo editing, and normally the max i will ever see it use is about 6.4GB. I have 8GB on a 1156 so its dual Ch but would make it hard on a 1366

Only program I've seen max out my RAM is Photoshop CS5 when rendering batch's of photos.

And browsing me browsing the internet uses more RAM than gaming Lol, 6GB of ram is better for overclocking to as said previously, also the higher the mhz the harder you will find it will be to get your PC stable, most kits of 12GB RAm aren't above 1600MHz, If you have the money for 12GB RAM save it and get 2000MHz or higher like 2133MHz

 

[djmorgan]

Well like many here I would have thought 6 Gb was more than enough, then I went SLI! I find on some games with high specs and editing very high quality images which can run to over 56Gb I get an annoying 'memory low' warning message, mind you when monitoring usage I still see over 1Gb available, as I use triple core memory I can only move up in quantieis of 3: 6, 9, 12 etc

Anyway I loaded up to 12Gb and no more warnings

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David