24GB too much?

[Gibbo3771]

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?

Standard games no, not at all.

If you are multiboxing multiple game clients like EVE online, then yeah. More RAM you ahve the better.

You will truely see the difference if you do heavy 3d editing, work with massive photoship files or do heavy music editing.

However, 8GB RAM to 24GB RAM, hell 8GB to 100GB zero difference, while a single SSD can cut your boot time and load times down by several seconds to almost instant if the CPU is up to the task.

 

[Armageus]

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.

Ivy-e will support exactly the same as Sandy-E, Sandy or Ivy:

i.e. 8Gb per slot....

As I said it's unlikely to be a CPU support issue (despite the memory controller being embedded in the CPU these days), but more a case of their being no UNBUFFERED 16Gb DDR3 modules (and unlikely there ever will be) - hence no testing by Intel, hence no support.

 

[Admiral Huddy]

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

Looking at the performance screen, I think it still reserves a small amount of page file. I've had mine switched off since upgrading to 16GB. Never any problems with older apps or games. In fact, I'm sure it got rid of a few latency problems I was having. not sure.