Who says you don't need 16GB of ram

no_1_dave · 13 May 2012 at 13:36

Here is Windows 7 using 16GB of ram.
Most of it cached so still freely available but used all the same. This was after a 4hr stretch of BF3. Maps were loading very fast so I'm guessing a lot of the BF3 game files are in there somewhere. Over the last week going from 6GB to 16GB of ram has made a huge difference in BF3 load times, very noticeable!! I have also deleted my page file

jamesfreddie · 13 May 2012 at 13:43

You should leave a small page file even though you have lots of ram.

Surveyor · 13 May 2012 at 13:50

You don't need 16GB of RAM.

It may be nice to have, and you seem to be getting a benefit from it, but you don't need it.

Yaayuh! · 13 May 2012 at 14:12

I have 16Gb of RAM and BF3 is on a Crucial 256Gb M4 SSD, what's my excuse?
(because i can)

wazza300 · 13 May 2012 at 14:46

thats just cached ram actual ram in use is only 2gb,8gb is plenty plenty ram

Smoogels · 13 May 2012 at 17:34

While 16GB would be very nice to have I think 8GB is still a healthy and affordable amount

Saundie · 13 May 2012 at 18:55

Imagine how much better 32GB would be!

BodgeITandRun · 13 May 2012 at 19:00

Saundie said:
Imagine how much better 32GB would be!

I'm jealous. I have to make due with a truly pathetic 24gb. It's hardly worthwhile surfing the net with my system.

On a serious note, I obviously don't need 24gb, I just want it.

Rooster212 · 13 May 2012 at 19:02

Its nice to have 16gb to be honest, I use a Ramdisk from time to time if i'm doing something like batch photo resizing (as i get 10GB/s transfer times once the photos are on the Ramdisk) and also big Photoshop files while having Visual Studio projects open sometimes uses up to 10GB so its nice to have, especially when I sometimes need it (if not always)

I have maxed out the RAM once since I got another 8GB, I had 3 VS projects, a few rather large photoshop files and a Windows 8 VM open...

no_1_dave · 13 May 2012 at 19:17

wazza300 said:
thats just cached ram actual ram in use is only 2gb,8gb is plenty plenty ram

I know

It makes things faster and with the price of ram right now it's a good upgrade

main reason I made this thread is because I have seen lots of posts saying over 8GB is pointless, even though to boost that up to 16GB would cost maybe £20 extra

wazza300 · 13 May 2012 at 20:36

no_1_dave said:
I know
It makes things faster and with the price of ram right now it's a good upgrade

main reason I made this thread is because I have seen lots of posts saying over 8GB is pointless, even though to boost that up to 16GB would cost maybe £20 extra

true but it does hinder your oc exp on x58 the more ram you have due to ocing thru the bclk,but if you can pick up a cheap kit then why not

555BUK · 13 May 2012 at 20:50

Photoshop is the only program I own that shows any real benefits with 16GB, and even then it only shaves a few seconds of processing time.

I would say that 16GB is a waste of money, but it's not because ram is so cheap at the moment.

Yaayuh! · 13 May 2012 at 21:19

wazza300 said:
true but it does hinder your oc exp on x58 the more ram you have due to ocing thru the bclk,but if you can pick up a cheap kit then why not

I disagree, i never found myself stuck because all 6 DIMMs were full.

wazza300 · 13 May 2012 at 21:21

Rossi~ said:
I disagree, i never found myself stuck because all 6 DIMMs were full.

how much qpi/vtt or imc was needed though? i bet it was a huge amount with 12gb+ when cpu was overclocked

i needed 1.3750v at stock cpu clocks

on sb/ib its unaffected,just on older i7 cpus

Yaayuh! · 13 May 2012 at 21:31

wazza300 said:
how much qpi/vtt or imc was needed though? i bet it was a huge amount with 12gb+ when cpu was overclocked

i needed 1.3750v at stock cpu clocks

on sb/ib its unaffected,just on older i7 cpus

1.4v

RizlaKing · 13 May 2012 at 21:34

Lol i am getting 32gb of ram this week not because i think i will need it anytime soon but because it is cheap enough and for the future where i can i apply the old condom adage of better to have it and not need it then need it and not have it.

no_1_dave · 13 May 2012 at 21:53

Not hindering my OC

I have QPI voltage on auto.

Barry1987 · 13 May 2012 at 22:30

RizlaKing said:
Lol i am getting 32gb of ram this week not because i think i will need it anytime soon but because it is cheap enough and for the future where i can i apply the old condom adage of better to have it and not need it then need it and not have it.

DDR4 will be out next year.

no_1_dave · 13 May 2012 at 22:34

Barry1987 said:
DDR4 will be out next year.

At a massive premium with very little performance gain

_lecro_ · 13 May 2012 at 23:30

I dont think ive ever gone over 7gb of my available 12gb but my system feels so much better since upgrading from 6gb
Havnt noticed an amazing increase in game load time though.