Is more More better than Performace.

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Ive been talking to a few people about this, like is Tri channel all that it makes out to be. But some have told me having more RAM is better than a few sticks of High performance RAM (Unless that is a lot of High Performance RAM). For example 8Gb DDR3 Dual Channel is better than 6Gb DDR3 Tri Channel? So would anyone agree with this statement. I've seen a few benchmarks, but people still disagree and say its all a matter of opinion? But c'mon they wouldn't have made it better, if it didn't need to be made better, Why fix whats not broken.

P.S I'm asking this because I'm running DDR2 RAM :D and haven't yet experienced any of this new glorious technology, and im trying to update my self.
 
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It all depends on the applications you're using. If you're doing video or photo editing, the more the better, however the speed of it isn't that important.

If you're looking to play games or overclock your cpu as much as you can, you'd be better of with a smaller amount of high quality fast ram.

As far as the triple channel thing, it doesn't seem to make a huge amount of difference at the moment, intel have released it because it's inevitable that it will become the new standard.... they've just released the technology a bit early, and the applications will have to play catchup to utilise the advantages it gives. This is often the case when new technology comes around, for example when the first dual cores came about most programs didn't use them, and you'd get similar performance to a single core.
 
If you had 4x 2gb sticks for 2x dual channel then you probably would see better performance in some areas. But the more ram sticks you have installed the lower you will be able to overclock. Basically it just comes down to if you use all that memory eg heavy editing or you just game. Most users only need around 4gb atm.
 
With 99% of windows applications and games running 32bit .exe's there no real reason to upgrade beyond 4gb ram.
There are exceptions to this such as video editing and photo manipulation or a huge amount of multi-tasking.
But people who do this already know what they need.

For gaming,faster ram can give you a very tiny fps increase,whether you think the extra cost would be worth it is down to you as an individual.
 
8gb over 6gb in games wont make a difference really, as most games wont even use 6gb, let alone 8gb.

4gb is generally plenty, 6gb is a nice amount to have. plenty for most tasks and has some spare so u dont have to worry whats else is taking up ram in the background :P

u really dont need to go beyond 6gb unless u are doing something that can actually use the ram, video editing, Visualization, etc.

if u are constantly running out of ram, then yes, more ram will be better than faster ram, but if ur not using the ram u have, then adding more wont make a difference, except to ur wallet ;)
 
I guess it make's sense that would depend on the application. But im begging to think investing in a little more RAM might be a good idea, i do a lot of rendering, so i assume more RAM might speed that up.
 
I always thoght 4gb was enough, as with 4gb installed I never saw Windows use is all.

When I stripped a machine down I added its 4gb to my current machine, with 8gb installed I saw on occasion 6gb+ in use with phooto's and multitasking.

I guess more will eventally become the norm just as we progressed from 2 to 4, but unsure if it is currently needed. And my increase to 8gb affected my OC but I can't be bothered dropping back to 4gb.
 
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