6GB OR 12GB

delpy8 · 3 Nov 2010 at 05:47

Hi Forum,

Ive got 6gb for my Asus P6X58D-E Intel,

Will I notice any real performance with adding another 6gb of the same ram

Its corsair CMP6GX3M3A1600C8

bifday2k · 3 Nov 2010 at 05:50

Only if you do a lot of intensive video/photo editing, rendering or stuff like that.

Apart from that not really no. Also if you fill up all the memory slots it will be harder to overclock, if u intend to overclock that is.

delpy8 · 3 Nov 2010 at 06:29

bifday2k said:
Only if you do a lot of intensive video/photo editing, rendering or stuff like that.

Apart from that not really no. Also if you fill up all the memory slots it will be harder to overclock, if u intend to overclock that is.

I was going to overclock and It will just be for gaming,

Cheers for that no need for 12gb then

Cheers

owenbarnfield · 4 Nov 2010 at 17:26

i encode a lot of blurays on my i7 920 do u think 12gb would be beneficial to this setup? i have 6gb of patriot ( blue) at the mo if not is it worth changing it to higher rated mem (2000mhz)

reflux · 4 Nov 2010 at 17:30

Check your memory usage when you're encoding. If you're running out, you need more RAM.

Metroid · 5 Nov 2010 at 00:35

Getting 12GB of ram has the benefit of disabling the pagefile

Essexraptor · 5 Nov 2010 at 10:17

Metroid said:
Getting 12GB of ram has the benefit of disabling the pagefile

And if your running your OS from a SSD pagefile may or may not be enabled, depending on which view you take, so this matters not a jot

Essexraptor · 5 Nov 2010 at 10:24

owenbarnfield said:
i encode a lot of blurays on my i7 920 do u think 12gb would be beneficial to this setup? i have 6gb of patriot ( blue) at the mo if not is it worth changing it to higher rated mem (2000mhz)

As with all encoding it's CPU intensive, so the main brunt of the work is CPU based ... memory (quantity) makes little difference. IF your rendering ... then yes ...memory is the kingpin