24GB too much?

Issy

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Just bought 24GB Ram off a friend, very cheap!! its compatible with my MOBO (sabertooth x58)

But will I see a massive difference to my 8GB?
 
Admiral Huddy said:
Turn page file off for a small boost.. No latency with the HDD then.
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Although anything that explicitly allocates from the pagefile will obviously fail (E.g. older versions of photoshop iirc)


Can't find the exact link, but seem to remember something written by Mark Russinovich explaining why turning off the pagefile is actually bad.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2008/11/17/3155406.aspx

is a useful read regarding paging and memory allocation
 
Issy said:
Just bought 24GB Ram off a friend, very cheap!! its compatible with my MOBO (sabertooth x58)

But will I see a massive difference to my 8GB?
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Issy said:
Im using the pc just for games
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If you are using the PC for gaming, puting all that memory in could actually make things worse.

The more ram you use the harder it is to oc the CPU as the integrated memory controller has more work to do. For gaming if you don't need the extra ram don't use it.

What memory config are you using - for X58 8gb is an odd number.
 
FOr gaming use a RAM drive ;) thats what I would do allocate like 15GB for a RAM drive that leaves plenty for normal RAM use :)

Zero latancy and read writes like 240600 :)
 
Novelty no way.

I know I dont know what games he playes but if its ARMA or other games that stream a lot of data then RAM drives are amazing and make a huge huge differance
 
bru said:
Bear in mind that Ivybridge only supports 32gb according to Intel.

http://ark.intel.com/products/65523/Intel-Core-i7-3770K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz
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To be fair it's not necessarily that Ivy doesn't support more than 32Gb, more a case that unbuffered DDR3 is not available in a density greater than 8Gb/Stick and Socket 1155 is limited to 4 Memory slots by the Controller..

If 16Gb unbuffered does turn up (unlikely) then I'm sure it would be supported.

Ollie1132 said:
Too true. At least for now, IB-E will probably be 64gb compatible or something ridiculously silly.
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64Gb is already supported by Sandy-E, most X79 2011 boards have 8 slots x 8Gb = 64Gb
 
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Armageus said:
To be fair it's not necessarily that Ivy doesn't support more than 32Gb, more a case that unbuffered DDR3 is not available in a density greater than 8Gb/Stick and Socket 1155 is limited to 4 Memory slots by the Controller..

If 16Gb unbuffered does turn up (unlikely) then I'm sure it would be supported.



64Gb is already supported by Sandy-E, most X79 2011 boards have 8 slots x 8Gb = 64Gb
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Oh yeah I forgot about that aha.. Lets make it 128GB :p
 
Yes sandybridge e does infact support 64GB ram whether ivybridge e will support more or not remains to be seen. Personally I doubt that it will due to it supposedly being usable on the same x79 motherboards as sandybridge e.
 
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