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i was thinking of adding another 6gb of mushkin ddr3-1600 9-9-9-24 to the 6gb i already have. would it make a noticeable difference? or should i spend that money on extra harddrive space..
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6gb to 12gb ram...is there a notcieable difference?
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No, dont! You won't need it, and its harder to Overclock provided you are ocing it. I would buy a bigger HDD or something.
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It all depends on what you want to do.
With 12gb, you could have 4gb for your system and put a game in a 8gb RAM disk. If you run lots of VMs you'll use up a lot of RAM too. There are lots of reasons you'd need 12gb, but for the average user 4gb/6gb should be totally fine.
With 12gb, you could have 4gb for your system and put a game in a 8gb RAM disk. If you run lots of VMs you'll use up a lot of RAM too. There are lots of reasons you'd need 12gb, but for the average user 4gb/6gb should be totally fine.
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i went from 6 to 12 and back to 6 lol i didnt notice anything going to 12 except for a really hard time trying to overclock my i7... if you dont do anything like photoediting, cad, ect ect then dont waste your money on 12gb
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Exactly
Guessing that you are getting more mushkin ram, and the lowest price is around 100 dollars, and if you have a lot of programs open that are memory intensive, I would just stick with your 6GB and grab a WD caviar black 1TB HDD for 100 bucks at newegg.
So, if vid editing, CAD, memory intensive programs----more memory
if not using memory intensive programs----morehdd space---WD caviar black 1TB
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That's a damn good question. I'd imagine it wouldn't work but maybe there's a way?
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There used to be a software for Macintosh, way back when MacOS 8 was new and System 7 was still the main OS among Macintosh user. The software automatically saved the content of the RAM disk before shutting down, and automatically reloaded RAM disk when you boot up to OS. I can't even remember the name of that app anymore... 10 or 11 years ago back when AOL was the most popular online service.
It wouldn't help if you're trying to make RAM disk as bootable unless you booted to regular OS off hard drive first, then rebooted to start off the RAM disk.
It wouldn't help if you're trying to make RAM disk as bootable unless you booted to regular OS off hard drive first, then rebooted to start off the RAM disk.
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i mean if its possible why havent people been loading windows on to a ram disk lol woudl make so much more sense
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SSD > RAM Disk IMO. Not quite there in performance, but SSD's will be catching up very quickly, and are more convenient than RAM Disks or even HD's. Large (well, 8GB if you call that "Large") RAM Disks and iRAM type solutions have only become affordable over the last few years (affordable in the realm of approx $40/GB ), and now they will likely fade into the sunset.
I'd agree with the RAM comments made. I dabble in a bit of everything, and 4GB has been plenty for me. 6GB-8GB would likely be perfect, and 12GB would be complete overkill with added complexity with regard to overclocking.
), and now they will likely fade into the sunset.I'd agree with the RAM comments made. I dabble in a bit of everything, and 4GB has been plenty for me. 6GB-8GB would likely be perfect, and 12GB would be complete overkill with added complexity with regard to overclocking.
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Yes, RAM disk has this feature built in. It will save the contents of the disk to a real HDD during shut down and load it up when the pc starts. This makes its own problems, as this takes time and if the PC just loses power randomly, BSoD etc, then the data wont be saved. (it can be set to autosave every x mins to help pervent these problems a little)
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