Is 8gb overkill?

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With ram being like 60 quid for 2x2gb, getting 8gb would be very affordable, but is it worth it? I'm going for vista 64 but can it handle that much ram okay and would it actually bottleneck me to have so much?
 
I have 4gb on my 32bit Vista system. I will be upgrading to 64bit when it becomes the 'norm'. So currently, my OS only recognises 3.2gb and even that much has been overkill so far. At worst, I've had 2.2gb usage on my ram which still leaves 1gb free (and that is without the 0.8gb that isn't being recognised).
 
8GB is overkill if you are just playing games and mooching around on the internet!

I'm moving to 4GB on Vista 64bit for 3D and any video editing I have to do, otherwise 2Gb seems perfectly fine for my games!
 
Actually 4gb might be a bottleneck.
EVGA's 680i has a horrible memory controller - 2gb is fine for 1066mhz+ but as soon as you add 4gb and fill the dimms slots, it's crippled to a maximum of 800mhz! if you try to push it any faster it will become very unstable and cause many memory/paging errors.

Is 8gb overkill? Depends on what you use your computer for :)
I'd highly recommend it if youre doing anything with Video editing or 3D rendering. Just make double sure that the applications youre planning to use support 8gb. e.g Photoshop still cant make use of more than 4gb, regardless of the OS.
 
If you aren't planning to update to a DDR3 board in the next couple of years then grabbing 8gb when it's dirt cheap isn't a bad idea at all.
 
trev said:
Actually 4gb might be a bottleneck.
EVGA's 680i has a horrible memory controller - 2gb is fine for 1066mhz+ but as soon as you add 4gb and fill the dimms slots, it's crippled to a maximum of 800mhz!
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I'd have 4GB 800mhz over 2GB 1066mhz anyday to be honest.
 
i've got 2gb of ram and it only ever max'es out when i'm encoding from AfterFX (which is a fun stability test... 5 hours max load on cpu and ram :eek:) so i'd want as much ram as i could lay my hands on... but most people won't ever need that much ram it really does depend what your doing with your pc....
 
trev said:
Actually 4gb might be a bottleneck.
EVGA's 680i has a horrible memory controller - 2gb is fine for 1066mhz+ but as soon as you add 4gb and fill the dimms slots, it's crippled to a maximum of 800mhz! if you try to push it any faster it will become very unstable and cause many memory/paging errors.

Is 8gb overkill? Depends on what you use your computer for :)
I'd highly recommend it if youre doing anything with Video editing or 3D rendering. Just make double sure that the applications youre planning to use support 8gb. e.g Photoshop still cant make use of more than 4gb, regardless of the OS.
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Ive had 4GB in 2x2GB form and 4x1GB form upto 950mhz with a 1900FSB with timings of 4:4:4:12 @2.1v and even tighter on that Muskin ££££ 4GB kit (but it was deff faulty as new esp as speaders were loose).
 
trev said:
Actually 4gb might be a bottleneck.
EVGA's 680i has a horrible memory controller - 2gb is fine for 1066mhz+ but as soon as you add 4gb and fill the dimms slots, it's crippled to a maximum of 800mhz! if you try to push it any faster it will become very unstable and cause many memory/paging errors.
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Might be the case for some people but im running my PC8500 4x sticks of OCZ on my EVGA 680I D00 Rev @ 1066 and there perfectly stable.
 
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