16gb or 8gb

tommytinkle · 13 Feb 2011 at 23:52

Hey all,

Have ordered a bundled with an extra 8gb of ram included in the price, is it worth me keeping this and using it with my existing 8gb or selling to a friend?

Cheers

theron · 14 Feb 2011 at 00:17

lolru4rl?

filmboyforever · 14 Feb 2011 at 00:19

theron said:
lolru4rl?

I think NOT sell the other 8gb your never goin to need it anytime soon LOL

Craig321 · 14 Feb 2011 at 00:22

Depends what you do with your computer, I could easily use my 8GB up.

If you're not going to make use of it, sell it.

tommytinkle · 14 Feb 2011 at 00:33

Hey

Games, photo editing with pics from my eos, web browsing, degree work and generally wasting time I guess

I didn't know if more than 8gb was beneficial in photo editing or similar! If not I'll sell it

- Then get another 5850 to crossfire

Thanks for any advice

Leeroy123 · 14 Feb 2011 at 01:00

16gb is overkill mate.

kylew · 14 Feb 2011 at 01:38

As some one who regularly eats up 8GB of RAM, I would say you can't have enough RAM, I'd definitely stick the new 8GB RAM in as well, more than 8GB would probably be very nice in the likes of Photoshop.

dustofnations · 14 Feb 2011 at 02:39

Unless you plan on running a server or a large number of virtual machines, or some specific reason to need RAMdisk

eddiew · 14 Feb 2011 at 08:22

I can easily make 8GB feel small with a 4000x3000 photoshop file with 50+ layers...

If you don't do that kind of thing, then 8 is probably sufficient for a while. Never heard of a game eating that much, and most photo editing (unless you're talking mahoosive megapixels) won't be particularly heavy either.

whitecrook · 14 Feb 2011 at 08:25

If you have to ask..... you don't need it. Sell it. Ny numbers bigger than your number is a ghey game anyway.

tommytinkle · 14 Feb 2011 at 08:45

whitecrook said:
If you have to ask..... you don't need it. Sell it. Ny numbers bigger than your number is a ghey game anyway.

Funnily enough I'm not playing my number is bigger than your number :rolleyes:

I do run virtual machines but only currently Windows server 2008 and then a couple of xp clients with it. Eitherway it looks like the general thoughts are to sell it. If so I'll get myself another 5850 and crossfire that

paradisiac · 14 Feb 2011 at 10:20

when doing things like video editing, when it renders does more ram allow quicker/better rendering, or is that mainly down to the cpu speed?

theron · 14 Feb 2011 at 11:21

tommytinkle said:
Hey

Games, photo editing with pics from my eos, web browsing, degree work and generally wasting time I guess

I didn't know if more than 8gb was beneficial in photo editing or similar! If not I'll sell it - Then get another 5850 to crossfire

Thanks for any advice

doesnt sound like you need more than 4gb tbf...

Muel · 14 Feb 2011 at 11:44

If you fill up your ram. Add more. It's not that complicated really?

I only have 4gb, I could go to 8gb, but I never fill up 4gb, so there would be no point.

paradisiac · 14 Feb 2011 at 11:47

Muel said:
If you fill up your ram. Add more. It's not that complicated really?

I only have 4gb, I could go to 8gb, but I never fill up 4gb, so there would be no point.

how do you know when your ram is full, other than performance in taskmanager?

kylew · 14 Feb 2011 at 12:26

theron said:
doesnt sound like you need more than 4gb tbf...

4GB is fail, I struggle to get by with 4GB in day to day usage, like web browsing, it just feels sluggish.

paradisiac · 14 Feb 2011 at 12:27

kylew said:
4GB is fail, I struggle to get by with 4GB in day to day usage, like web browsing, it just feels sluggish.

are you sure thats ram related? dont think web browsing alone would require more than 4GB

MikeHiow · 14 Feb 2011 at 13:06

Considering the price of DDR3 at the moment, it's barely worth selling. Even if you don't use the extra 8GB in applications, it'll offer additional performance in caching.

Plus you can say you've got 16GB of ram

That said, if the money will be particularly useful to you, 8GB is more than ample. In fact, I still believe 4GB is plenty - I do a fair bit of Photoshop, development work and VMs, and I've never had an issue with 4GB. In fact, I only upgraded to 8GB because of the £25 OCZ deal.

kylew · 14 Feb 2011 at 14:36

paradisiac said:
are you sure thats ram related? dont think web browsing alone would require more than 4GB

Definitely, I do very heavy multi-tasking. My RAM usage (with 8GB) is about 40% idle, obiviously with stuff cached, but I find 4GB unusable in my normal day to day usage of my PC.

paradisiac · 14 Feb 2011 at 15:27

kylew said:
Definitely, I do very heavy multi-tasking. My RAM usage (with 8GB) is about 40% idle, obiviously with stuff cached, but I find 4GB unusable in my normal day to day usage of my PC.

have you not answered your own original question there?
on idle you are using 40% of 8GB, so when multi tasking heavily like you say, then that will be nearer the 60-80% atleast, so yes, you would benifit from the extra 8GB.
or am i just missing something?