Quick RAM Opinion

enigmo · 8 Feb 2011 at 15:20

Just after a quick straw-poll:
Will I see any difference in an E8500 based gaming rig if I bump it from 6GB RAM to 8GB RAM. All sticks would be DDR2 6400, chip moderately overclocked to 3.8GHz ish.

enigmo · 8 Feb 2011 at 15:28

Currently 2x2GB and 2x1GB for 6 total. I have 2x2GB spare and was trying to decide if I should bump my gaming rig to 8, but if I'll see no difference I'll keep it for my server.

enigmo · 8 Feb 2011 at 15:37

Admiral Huddy said:
I'd very much doubt you'll see a notable difference tbh.

OK ta

I'll feed it to the monster that takes care of my media...

enigmo · 8 Feb 2011 at 16:20

TwsT:
True, but I'm in a bit of an odd half-way house seeing as I have a 2500K coming, 8GB DDR3 and a 1155 cooler already here, and an Asus board being swapped out after the recall. This is purely for my current setup and just happened to have had 2x2GB DDR2 drop in my lap for free

Just wondering what would make the best use of it.

enigmo · 9 Feb 2011 at 09:09

I also considered creating a RAM disk and moving the page file to there, but again an SSD would be a much greater performance boost, and I'll probably need 4GB rather than 2 for a reasonable RAM disk so overall would actually be reducing my usable RAM to 4GB.
Since I won't actually see a real perfomance bump without jumping through hoops I'll just leave it. 6GB is more than enough as stands. But ta all anyway