4gb or 2gb?

CliffyBiro · 7 Mar 2008 at 16:26

Not sure if I should go for the extra 2gb or not....
The machine will be used for gaming and photoshop mainly and running Vista or XP.

Need to decide between:
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2
or
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC

Here is the rig:
E6600
POV 8800GT
CoolerMaster Dominator Case
CoolerMaster Real Power 520w PSU
Asus PK5 Intel P35
Tuniq Tower 120
Hitachi Deskstar 250gb HDD
Samsunbg Writemaster DVD/RW

Snakedoctor · 7 Mar 2008 at 16:35

4 gb, its the only way to be sure! Only if your running 64 bit though, or you wont get the full benefit.

Sankari · 7 Mar 2008 at 17:10

4Gb F.T.W. In fact, 8Gb would not go astray. Aim for 32Gb if you can.

My target is 64Gb now, and 128Gb when the price of DDR3 comes down a bit. 256Gb is a very real possibility.

You can never have too much ram.

LewisStuart · 8 Mar 2008 at 13:04

Evangelion said:
4Gb F.T.W. In fact, 8Gb would not go astray. Aim for 32Gb if you can.

My target is 64Gb now, and 128Gb when the price of DDR3 comes down a bit. 256Gb is a very real possibility.

You can never have too much ram.

Slight overkill there, is there even a mainstream mobo that supports 16gb?

Diggsy · 8 Mar 2008 at 13:34

LewisStuart said:
Slight overkill there, is there even a mainstream mobo that supports 16gb?

My board is supposed to support 32gb, says so in the manual.

Sankari · 8 Mar 2008 at 14:34

I was j/k, but you can get motherboards which support enormous amounts of ram.

pegasus1 · 8 Mar 2008 at 20:13

photoshop mainly and running Vista or XP.

4gb all the way.

Grumpy · 9 Mar 2008 at 11:41

Diggsy said:
My board is supposed to support 32gb, says so in the manual.

Lol that's nearly as big as my current HDD 40GbIDE

Deluxe1 · 9 Mar 2008 at 11:57

4gb,you`ll love it.

bakes0310 · 9 Mar 2008 at 12:02

2gb is minimum now 4gb is standard.

CliffyBiro · 9 Mar 2008 at 13:54

OK, 4GB it is then.

Cheers