Moving to 4GB of RAM..

[Pat123]

Looking for a good 4GB kit either 2x2GB or 4x1GB

i was looking at these just wondered if they are any good?

http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.aspx?sku=335236

or theres these

http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.aspx?sku=335298

The buy two seperate kits of 2GB, that would be a cheaper option.

 

[darkorb]

i wouldnt go for 4gb of ram personally, no difference in games.

but iunless u need it for video editing, or thatkind of work, i would go for the 4x1gb, buy 2 seperate 2gb kits

 

[Pat123]

Yeh but sometimes in vista i get to like using around 1.9GB of RAM which slows me right down to a crawl.. and im also thinking or RAID'ing 2 HDD's together.

 

[ichiban]

i would buy the Crucial Ballistixs £139.96 Inc Del from http://www.shop.bt.com/productview....rchKey=All&SearchMode=All&NavigationKey=50090

get 4 off these as they use the Micron D9 Chips which clocks well.

 

[Mr. Smith]

I just moved to 4gb today, I had the dominators lying around (need to rma them again) anyway, mem remap in bios = 3.4 total, 3.0gb available, so it's only an extra gig. I'm also unable to oc at all, this is prob due to the dominators are faulty and unmatched against the celly's.

Trying to work out if its better to have 2gb's of fast ram or 3gb of average speed ram (around 850mhz)... THis is on xp though.

So far I can't tell any difference...

 

[Clunk]

I've done loads of testing with 2 and 4GiB and have concluded that there is no noticable difference in speed in anything that I can see, but I did find that the more RAM you have fitted, the more vista uses, but with little to no gain in performance...at least for the everyday stuff that I do

One other thing though, if your system is grinding to a halt with a lot of RAM usage, it is quite likely your antivirus. I was experiencing this with Kaspersky and did find a workaround that cuts the memory usage by around 50%, which I'll post if anyone is interested

 

[Mr. Smith]

I'm just testing 4gb now in 3dm06... I'll go back down to 2gb and test that too...

 

[Pat123]

Cool. Well.. norton is a RAM HOG.. lol.. Well ill just save myself some money then

 

[Rastalovich]

Tbh u get a performance boost using something other than norton

 

[FarFarAway]

Ye man, why the hell are you using Norton?

Nod32 ftw

 

[Pat123]

Dno coz i have always used norton.. so i havent changed lol. is Nod32 any good?

 

[Rastalovich]

Dno coz i have always used norton.. so i havent changed lol. is Nod32 any good?

To be fair, each have their critics, each have their good/bad points (more so than others maybe), but I find Nod32 favorable to gamers in particular coz of it`s lack of overheads compared with the others.

 

[ichiban]

been using NOD32 for a few years now and what i like about it most is that it uses the least resources compared to most Anti virus programs.

 

[Pat123]

Yeh, is it as good as norton on a scan front? like a killing virus's and updates etc.?

 

[Rastalovich]

Dunno m8, not had a virus or concern for over 5 years.

Don`t use anything atm tbh