8GB vs 16GB

Surveyor · 12 Nov 2011 at 11:04

mrk said:
Not gonna happen, this has been talked about many times before.

That's why we're talking about it being theoretically possible.

mrk · 12 Nov 2011 at 11:07

What's the point when it's never going to be physically doable?

hansp · 12 Nov 2011 at 11:14

Surveyor said:
A link which shows that please.

Both AMD and Intel have some developer guides explaining it. Intel calls it “Enhanced Legacy PAE Paging”, because you can go beyond 64 GB on modern CPUs.

Microsoft supports up to 128 GB. They won't support more than that, because it gets difficult to handle so much ram in 32bit.

Surveyor · 12 Nov 2011 at 11:14

mrk said:
What's the point when it's never going to be physically doable?

The point is that we can discuss it even if it's just a matter of intellectual interest.

No harm in that.

Cosimo · 12 Nov 2011 at 11:16

mrk said:
What's the point when it's never going to be physically doable?

And scientists discuss theory. Might as well not bother as well.

Surveyor · 12 Nov 2011 at 11:17

hansp said:
Both AMD and Intel have some developer guides explaining it. Intel calls it “Enhanced Legacy PAE Paging”, because you can go beyond 64 GB on modern CPUs.

I guess I'll just have to go and find it myself then.

Beerbaron · 15 Nov 2011 at 13:26

God damn you ocuk and your deals. Look what you made me buy now

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-290-CS

Time to test 16GB out for myself.

eyetrip · 15 Nov 2011 at 15:37

Well, I certainly didn't need to go 16GB, but I wanted to keep my new coming mobo for a few years, and the way things go, prices could certainly go up again by the time I wanted more.

£70 for 16GB Kingston HyperX seemed like too good a deal to pass on. Sure, prices may drop slightly more, but don't see it being enough to make much difference. Is not like paying £200 for 2GB.

Needed or not, I would recommend people upgrade if the outlay in cash is negligible.

Dave2150 · 15 Nov 2011 at 19:03

burrell said:
Never.

Lol so wrong.

My first PC had 64mb of ram, now my antivirus would consume all that.

Give it 10 to 15 years and 16GB will seem so little.

.Max. · 15 Nov 2011 at 20:19

Dave2150 said:
Lol so wrong.

My first PC had 64mb of ram, now my antivirus would consume all that.

Give it 10 to 15 years and 16GB will seem so little.

And now many phones have a lot more than that! :eek:

Give it a while then yep, 16GB may be not a lot

Scythe · 15 Nov 2011 at 20:26

Beerbaron said:
God damn you ocuk and your deals. Look what you made me buy now

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-290-CS

Time to test 16GB out for myself.

I bought that too, arrived today. 4 sticks of matching, win!

Windows is definitely a lot snappier

New World Order · 15 Nov 2011 at 20:37

Scythe said:
I bought that too, arrived today. 4 sticks of matching, win! Windows is definitely a lot snappier

How much do you use in a average gaming session? Bet not the full 16gb :rolleyes:

Psyisk · 15 Nov 2011 at 22:25

16 gb, because you really might as well

gamerdude1989 · 15 Nov 2011 at 22:55

personally, 8gb is more than enough. I run 8gb and its perfect, and i run Ableton live for my music creations (ram sucking software), but even 8gb is enough...

Unless you can get decent 16gb or ram for the same price as 8gb, then i wouldnt bother...
Pointless paying double the price of 8gb for 16gigs, when you really wont need it.

Sure its good to be future proof, but 16gb??? thats mentall, and IMHO, pointless..

But im sure others have their own opinions, and its completely upto you...

Amp34 · 15 Nov 2011 at 23:23

16 GB is meh... Our latest computer has 44GB...

Scythe · 16 Nov 2011 at 01:17

New World Order said:
How much do you use in a average gaming session? Bet not the full 16gb

I run lots of computational analysis (which sometimes can use up the whole 8GB!) and CAD, sometimes at the same time, so you can take your :rolleyes:

back.

Computers aren't just for gaming.

mrk · 16 Nov 2011 at 09:12

Even when gaming, games like BF3 use 1.9GB of RAM (mine does) so if you have 8GB, 3GB being used by the OS, another 2GB or so by background apps, 1GB~ for foreground apps like the browser etc and you can see how 8GB isn't going to be an ideal amount of RAM for a modern day gamer either.

This is why I have 16GB and with RAM prices so cheap....it's a crime not to.

xsistor · 17 Nov 2011 at 01:24

burrell said:
Never.

Yeah. cos 640K ought to be enough for everybody

99Androidguy777 · 17 Nov 2011 at 01:46

xsistor said:
Yeah. cos 640K ought to be enough for everybody

Isn't that something bill gates said once ?

gamerdude1989 · 17 Nov 2011 at 03:13

99Androidguy777 said:
Isn't that something bill gates said once ?

Yeah im pretty sure it was. haha, i donteven remembre back that far to when systems ran on that..
I was first in the computer scene back in the 8mb ram days