Need 32gb RAM - Recommendations

stoofa · 14 May 2013 at 14:16

I have the need to upgrade 4 of our machines to 32GB of ram.
They currently have in:

Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Motherboard
Core i7-3770 CPU
Mushkin Redline DDR3-12800 (16GB 4x 4GB)

All of this runs at stock - yer I know there is overclock potential, however the 3.4GHz is fast enough for what we need to do.

Any suggestions on RAM?
Either 4x 8GB kit or two 2x 8GB kit's - I see some manufacturers only sell 16GB packs.
As you can see I don't demand overclock ability, rather the best timings at stock.

Ta

Rooster212 · 14 May 2013 at 15:12

What do you use them for? As in, do you need really fast RAM? Like 2133MHz+?

Otherwise I'd just say go for cheap as possible.

2 kits of this will work great. Might be worth waiting to see if kits come up in deal of the week on Wednesday.

£90x2 for each PC x4 = £720, which is quite a lot.

5960xNvidiaGamer · 14 May 2013 at 16:15

32gb, why ?

Admetos · 14 May 2013 at 19:44

If it's any help I have 4 x 8GB of the Kingston below on an i7 3770k since xmas, only running stock speed but it's been totally reliable. Paid £80 for the entire 32GB on offer from OCUK, it's £200 now however!

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-121-KS

stoofa · 15 May 2013 at 14:16

It's two-fold.
We've got some workstations that our hardware engineers are working on. They are creating some impressive work - but the manufacturers of the CAD software they are using have indicated the performance issue is probably memory related.
The other is for build-machines. Our software engineers send build tasks to a collection of workstations we have. They just want as much grunt as possible to build software releases.

Cheers for suggestions.

Rooster212 · 20 May 2013 at 11:55

As a software developer, i can tell you that fast memory doesn't make that much difference, not for the price. We'll be talking milliseconds I'd think. Go for a balance of price and performance, so 1866MHz perhaps if you can get it for a decent price. Definitely stick with 1600MHz. Also bear in mind some motherboards and CPUs might not cope with quick RAM.

RSRAVI · 26 May 2013 at 18:34

why would you need 32gb ram ????

what software requires that much memory

R088ieS86 · 26 May 2013 at 19:51

why would you need 32gb ram ????

what software requires that much memory

CAD software

1600MHz RAM will be fine.

RHS · 27 May 2013 at 22:10

6 million+ points of data in AutoCAD Civil 3d or any advanced modelling requires 32Gb of RAM for sure, particularly if doing visualisation's and the like.

Hopefully they are using a beefy NVIDIA Quadro GFX card otherwise all the ram in the world won't help.

RSRAVI · 28 May 2013 at 17:31

yep you need a decent cpu and GPU to match that ram or you have a bottle neck

Alexcy · 28 May 2013 at 18:23

I recommend the ones that i got http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-124-KS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

Its 8gb but you can still go for the 16gb. I use visual studio program, i can pop like 2-3 of those along with other software and still no problem. The visual studio program is installed on the 1tb seagate disk and it loads kinda quick in like 2 sec.

stoofa · 5 Jun 2013 at 10:32

RHS said:
6 million+ points of data in AutoCAD Civil 3d or any advanced modelling requires 32Gb of RAM for sure, particularly if doing visualisation's and the like.

Hopefully they are using a beefy NVIDIA Quadro GFX card otherwise all the ram in the world won't help.

Hadn't realised there had been some other posts here.
Now are you telling me the current NVidia GT210's we're using are not up to spec?

Off the top of my head we're using Quadro 5000's with 4GB RAM.