how much gb ddr3 do we need max,for gaming

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#1 darkfeyt2
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is 8gb ddr3 really best choise for tuday and near future?

how much tuday most demanding games can suck gb of ram playing game on full hd res on windows vista x64 ultimate?

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#2 samuraiguns
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4 - 6 GB of RAM is fine I honestly do not see the need of 8 - 12 GB of RAM besides photoshop, cinebench , maya...etc

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#3 cornholio157
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ill let you in on a secret, unless your getting an i7/x58 board... DONOT buy triple channel DDR3 your just wasting your money

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#4 Gog
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Since very few games have a 64-bit version, they won't use more than 2 GB so 4 GB in total is still fine for now and the near future.

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#5 darkfeyt2
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how much is performance difference between DDR3 CL7 1600 mhz and CL9 1333 mhz only in games
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#6 joshuahaveron
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how much is performance difference between DDR3 CL7 1600 mhz and CL9 1333 mhz only in games darkfeyt2

So small you can hardly tell

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#7 KFC1000
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4GB (2x2GB for dual channel) is enough really as games rarely use more than this. However if you have a triple channel mobo i.e. using i7 I would go for 6GB (3x2GB) for future proofing. WRT bandwidth/timings I would go for DDR3 CL8 1800mhz to give yourself some overclocking headroom as this is only $85 (price has really fallen since introduction of triple channel).
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#8 Staryoshi87
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Dual channel: 4GB

Triple channel: 6GB

Anything more isn't necessary but is nice to have and perfectly acceptable. It may speed things up in a crunch if you get close to your limit otherwise.

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#9 NSR34GTR
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8gb is overkill
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#10 muirplayer
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is 8gb ddr3 really best choise for tuday and near future?

how much tuday most demanding games can suck gb of ram playing game on full hd res on windows vista x64 ultimate?

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32bit based games can only allocate somewhere between 2 and 3gb of ram. Higher resolutions effect the ram on the videocard more so than the system memory. Performance gains of ddr3 over ddr2 memory aren't really worth the jump in price. 8gb of ram isn't necessarily overkill. Just for gamers and average users. However, with 8gb of ram you should be able to turn the paging file off, forcing windows to use the ram only, in which you may notice things will move faster than having windows push data into the hard drive paging file.
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#11 artiedeadat40
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I wouldn't settle for anything slower than 1600mhz cas6 (cas7 if it's cheap). Anything slower isn't much of an upgrade from DDR2 1066 cas5. DDR3 is pretty cheap now anyways.