Man of Honour
My once high end PC is old now. i7 4790K (running at 4.4GHz all cores), 16GB DDR3. I'm still wondering if maybe keyboard and mouse support will come to consoles (I mean really come to consoles, not something possible but rarely supported by games) so I'm not really in the mood to buy a whole new PC, which is what I'd have to do for any significant upgrade. New motherboard, new CPU, new cooler, new memory...probably need a new PSU too...may as well get a whole new PC and just move the drives over. I've lost interest in building PCs for the sake of it, so replacing most of a PC into the same case no longer holds any appeal for me.
Anyway...I was idly wondering if 32GB would be worth having over 16GB for games. I know it would be for 7 Days to Die, but that's only because it's so badly written. But it prompted the thought. ~£40 for 2x8GB DDR3 nowadays, may as well do it. Or so I initially thought. When I built this PC, it was high end. So I put what was then high end memory in it. DDR3-2400 aka PC3-19200. CAS 11. Requires 1.65V. Not a standard spec. Not available from OcUK. Not available from the manufacturer's website. Probably not made at all any more. I saw some for sale for £80. Probably leftover stock that's been sitting in a box for years. Or second hand. £40 is an impulse buy for me. £80 isn't. Not with bills the way they are now. Not for an old PC.
But maybe it's worth it. Opinions welcome.
Anyway...I was idly wondering if 32GB would be worth having over 16GB for games. I know it would be for 7 Days to Die, but that's only because it's so badly written. But it prompted the thought. ~£40 for 2x8GB DDR3 nowadays, may as well do it. Or so I initially thought. When I built this PC, it was high end. So I put what was then high end memory in it. DDR3-2400 aka PC3-19200. CAS 11. Requires 1.65V. Not a standard spec. Not available from OcUK. Not available from the manufacturer's website. Probably not made at all any more. I saw some for sale for £80. Probably leftover stock that's been sitting in a box for years. Or second hand. £40 is an impulse buy for me. £80 isn't. Not with bills the way they are now. Not for an old PC.
But maybe it's worth it. Opinions welcome.