Is a 6gb kit enough

JEB

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Ok - been about 5 years since I last did a update, so gona treat myself. Was planning:

Asus P8P67-M Socket 1155
i7 3.4Ghz
OCZ 120Gb Vertex 2E SSD
OCZ 1600mhz Reaper Tri Channel 6 Gb Kit cas 6

I have other mechanical disks disks that I will use in raid for my data.

I am totally out of touch with this new kit, but have spent the day reading up on it all, and understand the Tri channel memory is the idea set-up for the i7.

Won't be running games these days, geting to old, so the this'll be a day to day rig for photo editing, general office work etc, but I want something that's nice and quick.

I currently have 8Gb DDR2 in my current Asus Maximus II and Q9650. Seems a backward step coming down to 6Gb, is this enough RAM for the rig?

Would anyone suggest any changes to the above that'll improve things?
 
You'll be wanting dual channel kits for that mobo, so 4gb, 8gb etc.

Someone else will be better placed to help with how much ram you will actually need, but I'd say 8gb is more than enough.
 
AT Orchard said:
You'll be wanting dual channel kits for that mobo, so 4gb, 8gb etc.

Someone else will be better placed to help with how much ram you will actually need, but I'd say 8gb is more than enough.
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Ah - I thought the way to go for the i7 was tri kits, so have I got the wrong end of the stick there?

What's your logic for sticking with dual channel for that momb, just tring to understand the pros-cons before parting with my pennies. Cheers.
 
JEB said:
Ah - I thought the way to go for the i7 was tri kits, so have I got the wrong end of the stick there?

What's your logic for sticking with dual channel for that momb, just tring to understand the pros-cons before parting with my pennies. Cheers.
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Depends which one you go with if its bloomsfield (900's) then yes its 6GB/12GB/24GB
or any other i7 its dual channel
 
JEB said:
Ah - I thought the way to go for the i7 was tri kits, so have I got the wrong end of the stick there?

What's your logic for sticking with dual channel for that momb, just tring to understand the pros-cons before parting with my pennies. Cheers.
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If you're wanting a sandybridge cpu, it will only support dual channel memory. Tri channel is currently used for socket 1366.
 
It's the Sandybridge 2600k that I was planning, so dual channel it looks to be. Like the look of the Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit.

Would that be suitable for the mobo, CPU that I have in mind?
 
Are you planning to overclock it? The only problem with that RAM is that the heatsink is very tall... so if you've got a large CPU cooler, chances are that it won't fit.
Other than that, yes it will work. And it's sexy looking RAM too ;)
 
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