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#1 PRKILLER
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Iam currently running 6gb of ddr3 ram. I want to know if is worth upgrading it to 12gb. Thanks

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#2 MonsieurX
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Barely.
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#3 Lox_Cropek
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Depends on what you do with the computer. If it's gaming, no.

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#5 Fightingfan
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I'd say no, I have 8GB and I've never seen myself use more then maybe 2.8GBs
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#6 James161324
Member since 2009 • 8315 Posts

If you have the money why the hell not ram is so cheap. But in all honestly i have 16gb and i don't go past 6 gb

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#7 mitu123
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I'd say no, I have 8GB and I've never seen myself use more then maybe 2.8GBsFightingfan
You really must not have a lot going on, I use over 4GB on average with my 8GB RAM.
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#8 Elann2008
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6-8GB for gaming just to cover up loose ends when certain games eat up system RAM. Other than that, I've been gaming just fine with 4GB.
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#9 zaku101
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[QUOTE="Fightingfan"]I'd say no, I have 8GB and I've never seen myself use more then maybe 2.8GBsmitu123
You really must not have a lot going on, I use over 4GB on average with my 8GB RAM.

You must have a lot of junk running on your system or memory leaks.. A fresh install of Win7 actually uses less then 1gb of ram, after you load some junk onto it 1.10gb. This is at the desktop, no webbbrowser open.

Also there's no point going from 8 to 16gb of ram, you might see if your lucky 1fps increase or actually a downgrade in performance.

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#10 mitu123
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[QUOTE="mitu123"][QUOTE="Fightingfan"]I'd say no, I have 8GB and I've never seen myself use more then maybe 2.8GBszaku101

You really must not have a lot going on, I use over 4GB on average with my 8GB RAM.

You must have a lot of junk running on your system or memory leaks.. A fresh install of Win7 actually uses less then 1gb of ram, after you load some junk onto it 1.10gb. This is at the desktop, no webbbrowser open.

Also there's no point going from 8 to 16gb of ram, you might see if your lucky 1fps increase or actually a downgrade in performance.

Chrome, Firefox and Opera seem to take quite a bit of RAM.

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#11 deactivated-5a9b3f32ef4e9
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Nah.

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#12 JigglyWiggly_
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i'm idling at 7 gigs atm for me yeah for you, nah
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#13 zaku101
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[QUOTE="zaku101"]

[QUOTE="mitu123"] You really must not have a lot going on, I use over 4GB on average with my 8GB RAM.mitu123

You must have a lot of junk running on your system or memory leaks.. A fresh install of Win7 actually uses less then 1gb of ram, after you load some junk onto it 1.10gb. This is at the desktop, no webbbrowser open.

Also there's no point going from 8 to 16gb of ram, you might see if your lucky 1fps increase or actually a downgrade in performance.

Chrome, Firefox and Opera seem to take quite a bit of RAM.

So do you actually have all 3 open at a time with a bunch of tabs or something? Because with 9 tabs open in chrome plus a few apps I hit 2gigs. Meaning to hit your average I'd need to open 30 web pages at the same time.

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#14 zaku101
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i'm idling at 7 gigs atm for me yeah for you, nahJigglyWiggly_

So does your day start with you opening chrome and over 50 tabs open up? Because to hit 7gigs while idling isn't something you just do, even in gaming.

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#15 mitu123
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[QUOTE="mitu123"]

[QUOTE="zaku101"]

You must have a lot of junk running on your system or memory leaks.. A fresh install of Win7 actually uses less then 1gb of ram, after you load some junk onto it 1.10gb. This is at the desktop, no webbbrowser open.

Also there's no point going from 8 to 16gb of ram, you might see if your lucky 1fps increase or actually a downgrade in performance.

zaku101

Chrome, Firefox and Opera seem to take quite a bit of RAM.

So do you actually have all 3 open at a time with a bunch of tabs or something? Because with 9 tabs open in chrome plus a few apps I hit 2gigs. Meaning to hit your average I'd need to open 30 web pages at the same time.

I have more than 9 tabs on each of them with them all opened at the same time.

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[QUOTE="JigglyWiggly_"]i'm idling at 7 gigs atm for me yeah for you, nahzaku101

So does your day start with you opening chrome and over 50 tabs open up? Because to hit 7gigs while idling isn't something you just do, even in gaming.

I haven't rebooted in like a week and yeah pretty much. Blender is open but even if I close it it doesn't seem to give all the memory back. Open sourceis amazing

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#17 MuD3
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i have 16 just because i don't like my slots to be open... i'll never use all that.
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#18 zaku101
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[QUOTE="zaku101"]

[QUOTE="mitu123"] Chrome, Firefox and Opera seem to take quite a bit of RAM.

mitu123

So do you actually have all 3 open at a time with a bunch of tabs or something? Because with 9 tabs open in chrome plus a few apps I hit 2gigs. Meaning to hit your average I'd need to open 30 web pages at the same time.

I have more than 9 tabs on each of them with them all opened at the same time.

Lol, why are you using 3 different browsers and why do you need tabs open in all of them?

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#19 zaku101
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[QUOTE="zaku101"]

[QUOTE="JigglyWiggly_"]i'm idling at 7 gigs atm for me yeah for you, nahJigglyWiggly_

So does your day start with you opening chrome and over 50 tabs open up? Because to hit 7gigs while idling isn't something you just do, even in gaming.

I haven't rebooted in like a week and yeah pretty much. Blender is open but even if I close it it doesn't seem to give all the memory back. Open sourceis amazing

That's weird I haven't rebooted in a few months since I use sleep mode and I still idle at 1gb on just the desktop. You must have some kind of memory leak.

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More than 6GB of RAM is pointless for gaming and most other tasks. I have 8GB, but that's just because I wanted more than 4gb and wanted to keep dual-channel mode with identical DIMMS in each slot... plus I do some HD video editing from time to time. A person who bought an LGA 1366 system 3+ years ago with an i7 and 6GB of RAM in a 2gb x 3 configuration made a really good investment. The CPU is still beastly, especially overclocked. They still have plenty of RAM for almost anything.

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#21 abuabed
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If you do insane stuff (like I do) then even 16GB isn't enough :P But for gaming 6GB is pretty good.
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#22 mitu123
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[QUOTE="mitu123"]

[QUOTE="zaku101"]

So do you actually have all 3 open at a time with a bunch of tabs or something? Because with 9 tabs open in chrome plus a few apps I hit 2gigs. Meaning to hit your average I'd need to open 30 web pages at the same time.

zaku101

I have more than 9 tabs on each of them with them all opened at the same time.

Lol, why are you using 3 different browsers and why do you need tabs open in all of them?

Because I can multi-task between them since I go on a wide variety of sites.

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#23 zaku101
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[QUOTE="zaku101"]

[QUOTE="mitu123"] I have more than 9 tabs on each of them with them all opened at the same time.

mitu123

Lol, why are you using 3 different browsers and why do you need tabs open in all of them?

Because I can multi-task between them since I go on a wide variety of sites.

So your telling me you go onto 9+ different websites at the same time while using 3 webbrowsers and only have one pair of eyes and one monitor? Idk about you but I only have two tabs open at a time, I have no idea why you open that many when a human being can't read more than one at a time. Unless god gave you super powers your just doing it for **** n gigles.

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#24 mitu123
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[QUOTE="mitu123"]

[QUOTE="zaku101"]

Lol, why are you using 3 different browsers and why do you need tabs open in all of them?

zaku101

Because I can multi-task between them since I go on a wide variety of sites.

So your telling me you go onto 9+ different websites at the same time while using 3 webbrowsers and only have one pair of eyes and one monitor? Idk about you but I only have two tabs open at a time, I have no idea why you open that many when a human being can't read more than one at a time. Unless god gave you super powers your just doing it for **** n gigles.

Because anything less isn't for the best, also 2 tabs is a complete joke to me, I get nothing done with 2 tabs open.

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#25 MuD3
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[QUOTE="zaku101"]

[QUOTE="mitu123"] Because I can multi-task between them since I go on a wide variety of sites.

mitu123

So your telling me you go onto 9+ different websites at the same time while using 3 webbrowsers and only have one pair of eyes and one monitor? Idk about you but I only have two tabs open at a time, I have no idea why you open that many when a human being can't read more than one at a time. Unless god gave you super powers your just doing it for **** n gigles.

Because anything less isn't for the best, also 2 tabs is a complete joke to me, I get nothing done with 2 tabs open.

you must be really horrible at efficiency...
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#26 mitu123
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[QUOTE="mitu123"]

[QUOTE="zaku101"]

So your telling me you go onto 9+ different websites at the same time while using 3 webbrowsers and only have one pair of eyes and one monitor? Idk about you but I only have two tabs open at a time, I have no idea why you open that many when a human being can't read more than one at a time. Unless god gave you super powers your just doing it for **** n gigles.

MuD3

Because anything less isn't for the best, also 2 tabs is a complete joke to me, I get nothing done with 2 tabs open.

you must be really horrible at efficiency...

Nah, I just love to take advantage of my RAM.=3

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#27 adamosmaki
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No . I have 12 and the highest i seen it go is 5,5 gb and that was with a alot of programs open while working on an image editor (gimp ) and having Stalker with misery mod ( which is a memory hog ) minimized
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#28 AzKorGaming
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6GB is more than enough for gaming, even if you're running fraps (on a separate HDD) and skype at the same time. As for any type of editing, 12GB will make a huge difference, but this also depends on your CPU. I tried editing on a system with 4GB, it was time consuming to say the least :P
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#29 Malta_1980
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I dont have much probs with 4GB but am updgrading soon to 8GB.. More than that right now is basically useless when it comes to gaming..