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Loco Canada. Sep 01 2009 13:14. Posts 21017 | | |
eh, i don't have time to go over it all right now but i might later. just know that you cannot (well you can, but it's highly unrecommended) mix two different brands of ram together. and not only that those have different default clocks. either get the same that comes with the mobo or ditch it and get the corsair.
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Ket  United Kingdom. Sep 01 2009 13:23. Posts 8665 | | | |
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CrownRoyal United States. Sep 01 2009 13:24. Posts 11386 | | |
as far as ram goes I think that 4gb will do for you exactly what 6 would do. |
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NotSorry United States. Sep 01 2009 13:25. Posts 2603 | | |
For sure drop the mobo packaged ram and get 2 sets of those 4gb corsairs, I find 8gb ram is a must if you're running vista. Personally had some issues with the WD caviar green series including 2 dead on arrivals and one that lasted little over 60days, would suggest a seagate barracuda series in it's place. |
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Ket United Kingdom. Sep 01 2009 13:27. Posts 8665 | | |
noted, thanks. 8gb ram does sound pretty ballin and i certainly dont want hard drives that dont work! |
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Ket United Kingdom. Sep 01 2009 13:28. Posts 8665 | | |
| | On September 01 2009 12:24 CrownRoyal wrote:
as far as ram goes I think that 4gb will do for you exactly what 6 would do. |
hmm actually yes you may be right, I read on 2+2 that for decently heavy poker use 4gb is the 'sweet spot' |
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NotSorry United States. Sep 01 2009 13:29. Posts 2603 | | |
You can get by on 4gb for just poker but you said you would be multitasking/lite gaming as well which would bump you into the 8gb range |
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CrownRoyal United States. Sep 01 2009 13:30. Posts 11386 | | |
im really not qualified to talk in this thread and will probably get owned because im so 2002 with my computer nerd knowledge. BUT as far as i know there is almost no circumstance where you need 6gb of ram or more, but im pretty sure notsorry has built even more computers with better knowledge than i have and he is saying go for 8, so wait for someone to refute what i said or reassure you. |
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NotSorry United States. Sep 01 2009 13:39. Posts 2603 | | |
Well it isn't like you can't just buy an extra 4gb set a week later if you find yourself taxing out your system, so it's really a personal choice. I use 8gb because I go over 55% when playing a game while watching movies and ram is so cheap these days just figure why not. |
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ggplz Sweden. Sep 01 2009 13:43. Posts 16784 | | |
4gb ram is totally fine
i have 8gb and it gives me some peace of mind knowing im very rarely gonna use that much (i have several times though) |
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NewbSaibot United States. Sep 01 2009 13:48. Posts 4949 | | |
the only reason to get 6gb right now is if youre going for the new corei7 type build. 4gb is plenty of vista. I have a vista box that runs Crysis, Farcry2, Fallout3, all the latest games just fine on 4gb. Certainly not any less though. 8gb is massive overkill even for multi-tasking. Im at work right now so Ill take a stab at the build too. Ultimately its not horribly wrong or anything, if you put this together it will boot. Just a few mismatched parts that dont compliment each other very well, possible bottlenecking etc. |
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Loco Canada. Sep 01 2009 13:52. Posts 21017 | | |
people are very confused about RAM in this day and age. they don't understand the major difference between how XP and Vista manages ram. let's just say very briefly that you cannot have too much ram with Vista 64-bit. it makes use of superfetch and will preload applications in memory, which means that the more memory you have, the faster everything will load. if xp 32-bit could handle 8gb of ram, it would not be able to utilize more than half of it, but vista will always use most of it, and freeing it up whenever necessary. it will also make you be able to make only a very small pagefile on your hard drive (if any) so that ram is used instead of hard drive cache (ram is extremely faster).
if we consider the cheap price of RAM nowadays it's pretty much a no brainer for all new builds with vista 64 to get 8gb ram |
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dahornnn United Kingdom. Sep 01 2009 13:53. Posts 693 | | |
i run everything fine on vista with 2gig ddr 3, so 4 will be plenty imo but if you find yourself somehow needing more its very easy to ship and stick some more in  |
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Loco Canada. Sep 01 2009 13:55. Posts 21017 | | |
the only people who will ever say "its not necessary to get more than X amount of RAM" are either running xp or are running vista 64 but never upgraded their RAM to test it themselves.
the difference was like night and day for me going from 4 to 8. everything runs smoothly with 4gb but if you want a good experience of vista that's the strict minimum if you ask me. |
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CrownRoyal United States. Sep 01 2009 13:59. Posts 11386 | | |
hmm maybe i should buy another stick to throw in my laptop, i'm curious. |
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NotSorry United States. Sep 01 2009 14:04. Posts 2603 | | |
| | On September 01 2009 12:52 Loco wrote:
people are very confused about RAM in this day and age. they don't understand the major difference between how XP and Vista manages ram. let's just say very briefly that you cannot have too much ram with Vista 64-bit. it makes use of superfetch and will preload applications in memory, which means that the more memory you have, the faster everything will load. if xp 32-bit could handle 8gb of ram, it would not be able to utilize more than half of it, but vista will always use most of it, and freeing it up whenever necessary. it will also make you be able to make only a very small pagefile on your hard drive (if any) so that ram is used instead of hard drive cache (ram is extremely faster).
if we consider the cheap price of RAM nowadays it's pretty much a no brainer for all new builds with vista 64 to get 8gb ram |
Sounds like a direct quote from an Anandtech review, but I strongly agree with it |
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idk a lot about this but wouldnt it be sexy to get a 10k rpm hdd to use for vista + programs? |
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CrownRoyal United States. Sep 01 2009 14:11. Posts 11386 | | |
that's so sick.
vista the programs i use most preloaded into the ram for quicker load times??? And when it needs to close out of those programs for more ram it does it its self? |
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AndrewSong United States. Sep 01 2009 14:17. Posts 2355 | | |
If your planning to use this setup for 2+ yrs u should scratch the quad core and go with the i7. I'm running on Q9550 right now but after toying with i7 last week i'm sold |
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