Memory advantage 8 GIG vs 16 GIG?

[Fakum]

In the middle of a new build cause my MOBO fried! Having A-10 withdraws now as well,,,, ANYWAY,, going with an i5 2500k CPU & SSD w/Win 7 ULT 64,,, was wondering if it was going to be worth going with 16 gig of ram vs 8 in regards to DCS A-10 Performance? Thanks

[sobek]

My opinion is no.

[cichlidfan]

I am inclined to agree with Sobek but I will admit that given the price I paid for 8GB, not quite a year ago, compared to today's prices I would probably go with 16GB for no other reason than becuase it's so cheap.

[wess24m]

I'd say unless your doing heavy photo/audio/video editing then 16 gigs is overkill. I have 8 right now and nothing I run, including fsx, BMS, DCS uses even 50% of it. Although you could create a ram-disk and install DCS for uberfast load times.

[sobek]

Well, what for, if you don't profit from them? Better to invest the money in a stronger GPU or more vRAM. 16 gigs only make sense for heavily loaded servers or users that run a lot of RAM-intensive applications at the same time (video/audio workstations, etc.)

 

Edit: Sniped.

[Depth]

There is not much use for that much unless you're planning on using a RAM Drive or some heavy video rendering. I'd say go with two 4GB modules so you have room to expand.

[wess24m]

For the price difference, I'd get a SSD (or 2) i just converted about a month ago and it's been great. Night and day load times as well as general performance increase. As somebody said i'd go with a faster CPU,GPU or extra toys (warthog,mfds).

[KillaALF]

Where could you get a SSD for ~30 Euros? That is what 8GB of DDR3-1333 RAM cost over here. The one thing I'd recommend is get a new keyboard with a working "." key. Your ,,,,, are driving me nuts ;)

[wess24m]

Where could you get a SSD for ~30 Euros? That is what 8GB of DDR3-1333 RAM cost over here. The one thing I'd recommend is get a new keyboard with a working "." key. Your ,,,,, are driving me nuts ;)

 

 

I bought mine from tiger direct. They had a sale awhile back, I think I payed $100 for a 120gig SSD. Guess i'm not up up date on my memory prices. Still totally worth it IMO.

[KillaALF]

Still totally worth it IMO.

 

Not disputing that at all, but from the first post it seems he already has that covered. Cheapest 120GB SSD are ~120€ here, btw.

[Harzach]

I bought mine from tiger direct. They had a sale awhile back, I think I payed $100 for a 120gig SSD. Guess i'm not up up date on my memory prices. Still totally worth it IMO.

 

You sure it's an SSD? That must have been one heck of a sale if it is!

[Dusty Rhodes]

DCS A-10 is the heaviest user of my 8 Gigs of RAM I have and it doesn't even come close to using it all. I would put the money into 8 GIGs and the rest you save to upgrade something else on your new monster.

[wess24m]

You sure it's an SSD? That must have been one heck of a sale if it is!

Yea, i'm sure. Was like $120 with free shipping, no tax and a 20 mail-in rebate.

(not the exact one but close, mine was a sata3)

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1068616&CatId=5300

Edited January 18, 2012 by wess24m

[Harzach]

Yea, i'm sure. Was like $120 with free shipping, no tax and a 20 mail-in rebate.

 

Dang. I would have bought a bunch for a sweet SSD RAID.

[Fakum]

Thanks guys,,, 8 Gigs it is. Oh my ",,,,," are just bad pause habits. Thanks

[wess24m]

if you want ram get it now , prices are only going to increase

 

As well as with hard drives. They should hurry up and rebuild that factory already :)

[KLR Rico]

8 or 16 gigs?! I thought 640K was enough for anyone. :D

 

I have 20 GB, and usually use 8-12GB of it at any given time to run a ramdisk.

[Dejjvid]

16GB is nice to have.

 

This is my usual RAM usage.

 

Chrome 800MB

DCS 3GB

uTorrent 300MB

Random pr0n 4GB

Windows 2GB

 

So, i could've survived with 8GB without any problems at all. But when the upgrade from 8GB is 30$ (you DO NOT get an SSD for 30$!), i figured, why not.

[Flockzap]

Sorry to hijack Fakum, I have 150€ to spare. Is the SSD really worth it? Faster load times I read about, but in the game is it going to be faster? Is it noticeable? Its is 150€ faster??? :)

Thanks

FLZ

[wess24m]

Sorry to hijack Fakum, I have 150€ to spare. Is the SSD really worth it? Faster load times I read about, but in the game is it going to be faster? Is it noticeable? Its is 150€ faster??? :)

Thanks

FLZ

 

yes..would 100% recommend SSD. Ive only had it about 3 months, but no problems so far.

[Depth]

SSD's are great to keep the operating system on, as well as anything you want to load fast.

 

[LostOblivion]

More RAM means slower RAM, especially if you are going to overclock your system.

[Frostiken]

Meh.

 

More RAM won't do much for the game - but it will do stuff for everything else running in the background. RAM is still shared and if you're a slob like me you have all kinds of crap going on (at some point I alt-tabbed out of a game and forgot about it and was playing a second game with the first still in the background and didn't even notice).

 

16GB isn't even that expensive. If you have spare cash I'd say why not. If you don't, you wouldn't actually miss anything either.

 

It's a convenience, nothing more.

 

It is,

[MustangSally]

More RAM means slower RAM, especially if you are going to overclock your system.

 

Explain?

[Flockzap]

Thx guys.

Cheers

FLZ