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New work machine...

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Xtras:
Well, if you decide that mobo with a 6gb ram limit isn't for you...I'd be happy to take it off your hands  ;)

I kid of course.

erious:
That really isn't true. While 3 gigs is a bit low, there's absolutely no need for more then 6, unless you use a lot of memory hogging applications at once.
The PC I use for digital graphics and DTP at work has 3 gigs of RAM, and it's almost enough. I feel more annoyed by the outdated CPU in it, if anything.

molbjerg:

--- Quote from: Lupin on September 21, 2009, 01:34:25 PM ---Ah, you didn't mention you were using 32 bit.

Having more RAM allows you to have more programs residing in your memory which reduces swapping. You may have a higher clock when OCing but that won't help you when you have memory-hogging apps (e.g. photoshop) swapping every now and then. There, it's your hard drive that will be the bottleneck. More RAM will make your programs snappier.

--- End quote ---

Figured it was obvious since I said I was upgrading the RAM when Windows 7 comes out. Should have mentioned.

As far as memory hogging apps, yeah, photoshop is about as bad as they get, and is a worst case scenario. For example there will be little swapping when 3D modelling/rendering/compiling.


Tatsujin - We all know you don't know anything about computers :)

Xtras - The mobo limit would be 24GB I think - with 6*4GB chips, but as I mentioned I don't want to fill all of the RAM slots as that significantly lowers the overclock, as the heat generated with all slots full and the overclock would smell like north bridge computer death. So if anything I could get 3*4GB for 12, but could use the price for 4GB chips to fall a bit before that.

Erious, nice to see someone who understands ;)...

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