how much ram can I have?

collisster · 1 Nov 2006 at 19:32

I'm hoping to upgrade to vista along with new GFX cards I will need bomb loads of ram from what other people have said, I have the Asus A8n sli deluxe n force 4 motherboard. How much ram can I have in it at max ? what ram will work with it? I currently have 2 x 512 geil value in atm.

thanks

Zefan · 1 Nov 2006 at 19:33

2gb should be enough until bigger badder games and apps come out at which time 2gb sticks will become cheaper. So... 2gb now, more in a year.

collisster · 1 Nov 2006 at 19:36

you can get a 2gb stick? phwoar! can someone spec me some memory?

Zefan · 1 Nov 2006 at 19:38

You can get like 8gb sticks, but they're pretty pointless atm.

As I said, the most you'll need now is another 2 sticks of 512mb, even vista shouldn't complain too much at that.

Darg · 2 Nov 2006 at 16:32

You can get a pretty cheap Geil set of 2 1GB sticks for around £140 ish. DDR2 667 I think.

stoofa · 2 Nov 2006 at 17:03

1GB will be absolutely fine for Vista (please don't feed the trolls who are going on about the crazy minimum specs - they are just trolling).
2GB will make a nice boost, but you really won't need more than that.

I've currently got 4GB in my machine, however that is only because I managed to get the Geil DDR2 800 (2x 1GB kits) from OcUK when they were selling at £109+vat per kit.
I wouldn't be going for 4GB of RAM at todays prices.

Cob · 2 Nov 2006 at 17:13

I'm currently using 1.08Gb in Vista with just Firefox and a couple of Folding cores running (the Folding cores are using only 110mb between them).

Trying to game in Vista with just 1gb won't be fun.

benktlottie · 3 Nov 2006 at 22:38

stoofa said:
1GB will be absolutely fine for Vista (please don't feed the trolls who are going on about the crazy minimum specs - they are just trolling).
2GB will make a nice boost, but you really won't need more than that.

I've currently got 4GB in my machine, however that is only because I managed to get the Geil DDR2 800 (2x 1GB kits) from OcUK when they were selling at £109+vat per kit.
I wouldn't be going for 4GB of RAM at todays prices.

Have you actually used Vista STOOFA ? If so, if you play any games, then youll know that is such a BS comment about us 'crazy minimum spec trolls' and 1gb will be fine! Running Vista on 1gb of RAM is like running XP with Norton AV on 256mb RAM !

Having been a BETA tester for VISTA for the last 8 months, I can catagorically say 2GB minimum.

collisster · 3 Nov 2006 at 23:13

ok thanks I'll probably be looking for 2 gig then when I get vista. Is there a maximum that my mobo will take tho ? like when 3gig sticks come out
and can I have 2 of them seewhat I mean?

Cob · 3 Nov 2006 at 23:29

It'll take a max of 4gb.

benktlottie · 4 Nov 2006 at 00:06

collisster said:
ok thanks I'll probably be looking for 2 gig then when I get vista. Is there a maximum that my mobo will take tho ? like when 3gig sticks come out
and can I have 2 of them seewhat I mean?

I would be suprised if they ever make a 3gb stick...you can get 2b stick, and 4gb sticks (only ECC RAM though) specifically for servers. Next logical step will be 8gb sticks. Mobo for home use support a max od 8gb currently I believe.

you board only support 4gb, so the most you could do is 4 1gb sticks, or 2 x 2gb stick. But 4gb really is overkill unless you really need it, which I dont think you do !