Does buying large sums of RAM help speed up your computer?

[MongGrel]

So after reading all of this and sitting on 6Gb or RAM for a long time would putting one kit of these make any difference to you think?

I know mixing RAM is a bad idea, but they look almost similar to the old Corsair Dominators I have in here.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231225

That or just buying two kits and replacing it all, but I'd think would work with them.

Hell might get two sets anyways and be done with it, the Dominators seemed to never OC well to begin with should be running this old I7 at 4.0 I imagine.

Nah.

 

[Automata]

Do you have a SSD? If not, start there. That is going to be the biggest upgrade you will ever have for a long time. The difference is massive.

 

[wingman99]

I have 8GB and the most I see used is about 4GB with BF3 so more ram for me wont help, don't buy unless you need it.

 

[MongGrel]

Do you have a SSD? If not, start there. That is going to be the biggest upgrade you will ever have for a long time. The difference is massive.

Actually I bought two of these on sale Saturday while they were on sale and a PCI-e SATA III controller and was going to try that HyperDuo RAID thing with the WD Caviar Black I have in here and pull these old Raptors out.

If I don't like the HyperDuo, Ill just reconfigure again

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...m1132X509988X7d916e116f7bdb7920d918ed533177e4

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...m1132X509988X45ca2f053820976361e6f57d1dbef828

 

[MongGrel]

Might actually leave the Raptors in here to cover the pagefile, think having only 6GB of RAM would thrash the SSDs much ?

Might have to take em out though, running out of PSU availability on the cables a bit heh.

 

[MongGrel]

Ah thanks wingman, about what I figured, I was posting when you posted, I'll see how things work out.

 

[petteyg359]

I have 8GB and the most I see used is about 4GB with BF3 so more ram for me wont help, don't buy unless you need it.View attachment 135151

You're misreading your own image. You have almost 7 GB used. 3 GB of it is cached stuff, and that's what makes everything fast, since less disk access is necessary.

 

[MongGrel]

I'm on a binge atm I guess, I got one of these to put the old sound card I liked back in here and turn the on board off.

It's in my wife's system ATM and running through baby speakers and has just been lurking in the background awhile now he he.

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-...X1PCI1/dp/B0024CV3SA/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/auzentech_x_fi_prelude_7_1_review,13.html

http://www.pcauthority.com.au/Review/112419,auzentech-x-fi-prelude-71.aspx

It's old but I loved it and want it back in here again.

 

[wingman99]

You're misreading your own image. You have almost 7 GB used. 3 GB of it is cached stuff, and that's what makes everything fast, since less disk access is necessary.

I did not include the Cache because I use to have 4GB and Bf3 would swap files and cause stalling so I went to 8GB and that fixed BF3. The only thing 8GB made a speed difference was when leaving games back to the desktop in the Cache, everything else I do runs the same I rarely am switching from the same task over and over for the Cache to be used that much.

I just counted available because the Cache only seems to help a little from my experience coming from 4GB with the same system.