Curious... any point to having 12g

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Hi,

Just bored at work :P and was wondering... Is there really any point in having 12Gigs of memory?


Current spec
Asus Rampage II Extreme
i7 950
6gig corsair 1600

So is there any reason at all I would want 12? I mean would it make any difference? I know you cna turn page file off, but that usually causes more porblems (esp with gaming) than its worth =(


Cheers for any input.
 
Your question should be "Is there any point in me having 12GB of RAM for X" where X is what you use your system for. There is a point in having 12GB (or more, I run with 48GB at work) if you are doing things that would make use of the extra, HD video editing for example.
 
geuben said:
Your question should be "Is there any point in me having 12GB of RAM for X" where X is what you use your system for. There is a point in having 12GB (or more, I run with 48GB at work) if you are doing things that would make use of the extra, HD video editing for example.
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Sorry, my bad =P


The most intensive things I do I my home system is gaming really.
 
In which case, no. 4GB is still more than enough, considering that no game uses more than 2GB RAM.
 
I recently upgraded to 12GB from 6GB and it only cost me about £60 ish so to me it was well worth it. OK I might not use it all but for the money it seemed daft not to add to this that I could do it so I did :D which to be honest is something I don't normally do but at £10 per gig I wasn't turning it down :)

Stoner81.
 
Franklin said:
I couldn't find any point using 12 GB unless you are going to use it as a web server for a heavily crowded website.
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webservers dont really use a lot of ram tbh

there are plenty other reasons for needing 12gb or more thou
althou if u dont know them, it means u wont need it :P


BoomAM said:
How are you running 48Gb at work?
Short of you running your job off a server, i know of very few workstation boards that support more than 16Gb without paying silly money...
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all X58 boards can take 24GB ram.

u can get dual cpu workstation boards as well, and these often have a lot of ram.
 
BoomAM said:
A blade center?
What work do you do, i assume based on how youve phrased your stuff that your not a sys admin of any kind....rendering perhaps?
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Yep, we utilise bladecenters quite a bit.

We make some pretty intensive C++ programs (although as I'm lacking a bit in C++ knowledge and experience I'm mainly involved in testing, bug fixing and infrastructure).

Most of the time we don't need all that RAM but it cheap (in the bigger picture) and it means we are able to have a pretty nice config controlled development environment whereby a pre configured OS image (CentOS) is loaded entirely into RAM.
 
geuben said:
Yep, we utilise bladecenters quite a bit.

We make some pretty intensive C++ programs (although as I'm lacking a bit in C++ knowledge and experience I'm mainly involved in testing, bug fixing and infrastructure).

Most of the time we don't need all that RAM but it cheap (in the bigger picture) and it means we are able to have a pretty nice config controlled development environment whereby a pre configured OS image (CentOS) is loaded entirely into RAM.
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Cool.
Ive been pondering a similar idea to your work configuration a while back for the dev enviroment where i work too. Has many benefits.:)
 
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