Poll: How Many GB of RAM that you used in your PC?

8GB Main Rig
4GB AMD Rig
4GB Notebook

There's no reason not to have at least 4GB, it's that cheap and useful.

Also, I can overclock as well as I could when I had 4GB.

BTW for you 8GB is too much bashers, I've used 5.5GB while playing a single game. (Up from 1.7GB idle) 8GB can be very handy and it increases the computer's general ability to perform, allowing it to allocate more resources to being zippy. (Vista and Better, that is)

1.5gb woot I am unique

[QUOTE="simardbrad"]

4gb... its all you need in this era unless you run multiple servers off your pc. I hate seeing 6gb and 8gb of ram... its such overkill for absolutely no reason.

samuraiguns

Even 3x1GB is enough for triple channel. Windows 7 actually uses less RAM then Vista does from my personal experience.

8GB Main Rig
4GB AMD Rig
4GB Notebook

There's no reason not to have at least 4GB, it's that cheap and useful.

Also, I can overclock as well as I could when I had 4GB.

BTW for you 8GB is too much bashers, I've used 5.5GB while playing a single game. (Up from 1.7GB idle) 8GB can be very handy and it increases the computer's general ability to perform, allowing it to allocate more resources to being zippy. (Vista and Better, that is)

Staryoshi87

I have 4GB and I never even used 75% of my memory and I was playing Crysis, listening to music via Windows Media Player, and downloading stuff all at the same time. So unless you have like 10 windows open you don't need over 4GB of RAM. I was also using Windows 7 which uses less RAM then Vista.

My laptop has 256MB! Cry with me guys!:cry: Although my new PC will have 4GB when I can afford to build it...

8gb, making my OC attempts a living hell right now on my p5q deluxeAzNs3nSaT1On

Oh, man do I know the feeling. I have a P5Q D *gb of ram and a quad. You might want to try Ket (XS)/ KetXXX (TPU) modded bios. I'm on 2001m and it's working wonders for me. I also found a custom prime setting that will show errors from the MCH and ramfaster than anything that I have tried by far if you want it. I'm stable as can be right now, but it wasn't fun getting there.

8GB Main Rig
4GB AMD Rig
4GB Notebook

There's no reason not to have at least 4GB, it's that cheap and useful.

Also, I can overclock as well as I could when I had 4GB.

BTW for you 8GB is too much bashers, I've used 5.5GB while playing a single game. (Up from 1.7GB idle) 8GB can be very handy and it increases the computer's general ability to perform, allowing it to allocate more resources to being zippy. (Vista and Better, that is)

Staryoshi87

Push that FSB up near or even past 450 and you'll be singing a different tune about overclocking as easily, given you don't need thaat kind of clock speed for games. Throw in a Quad and it's even harder, very very stressfun on the northbridge.

[QUOTE="muirplayer"]Suppose the people with 8gb of ram aren't trying to overclock?AzNs3nSaT1On

I would pass Prime small fft, blend, Linpack (Intel Burn Test), Memtest 86+, and 3.8. I'm talking long runs here too.With those clock I would still have weird crashes and graphical corruption. Then I found a post at XS that had a couple of custom Prime settings that I failed in 2 minutes, no joke. Haveing a quick repeatable test to find errors really helped me out.

Prime95 x64

Test 1 (This is the one that I failed in 2 minutes)

Custom

Min FFT size= 128

Max FFT size= 1024

Memory to use= (set all of you available memory) varify in task manager

Test 2 (I hear that this is better for 775)

Custom

Min FFT size= 4096

Max FFT size= 4096

Memory to use= (set all of your available ram) varify in task manager

Your VTT, vNB, and nbGTL will play a big role here. Also this board like most Intel chipsets performs better on a divider other than 1:1 so you may want to try and get off of that 1:1 divider. Also set you Row to Refresh Cycle time to 55.

Push that FSB up near or even past 450 and you'll be singing a different tune about overclocking as easily, given you don't need thaat kind of clock speed for games. Throw in a Quad and it's even harder, very very stressfun on the northbridge.

artiedeadat40

Just 4 on XP.

1 GB on one and 2 GB on the other

[QUOTE="artiedeadat40"]Push that FSB up near or even past 450 and you'll be singing a different tune about overclocking as easily, given you don't need thaat kind of clock speed for games. Throw in a Quad and it's even harder, very very stressfun on the northbridge.

Staryoshi87

[QUOTE="Staryoshi87"]

[QUOTE="artiedeadat40"]Push that FSB up near or even past 450 and you'll be singing a different tune about overclocking as easily, given you don't need thaat kind of clock speed for games. Throw in a Quad and it's even harder, very very stressfun on the northbridge.

-GeordiLaForge-

Same here, but I wouldn't mind some Intel Burn Test to be honest since it stresses the MCH harder than a prime blend.

[QUOTE="-GeordiLaForge-"][QUOTE="Staryoshi87"] I've been well past that mark. I simply keep it at 3.8Ghz for convenience. It is not a problem in the least. 8GB is very handy. I use well more than 4GB while playing games alone (EQ2, TF2, etc). $45 well invested.

artiedeadat40

Same here, but I wouldn't mind some Intel Burn Test to be honest since it stresses the MCH harder than a prime blend.

[QUOTE="artiedeadat40"]

[QUOTE="-GeordiLaForge-"]I'm still waiting to see that screenshot of your CPU @ 4.2GHz running under 50C fully stressed w/ Prime 95 with a Freezer Pro cooler :PStaryoshi87

Same here, but I wouldn't mind some Intel Burn Test to be honest since it stresses the MCH harder than a prime blend.

[QUOTE="Staryoshi87"]

[QUOTE="artiedeadat40"]

Same here, but I wouldn't mind some Intel Burn Test to be honest since it stresses the MCH harder than a prime blend.

-GeordiLaForge-

I kind of think that he is full of it as well, I had an AC Freezer myself, but it's not like clock speeds matter that much in gaming anyways. You don't even need 3.8ghz, tbh. I garentee that he wont pass that custom prime blend that I mentioned.

[QUOTE="-GeordiLaForge-"][QUOTE="Staryoshi87"] Ever consider that I don't have time to please the internet? I don't have Prime95 installed since my last format nor the time to let it burn for hours. I keep my OC reasonable during the summer becuase I like it cool in here. I can't help it that one guy wasted time and effort on an inefficient cooling system and one thinks quads are relevant in gaming.

artiedeadat40

I kind of think that he is full of it as well, I had an AC Freezer myself, but it's not like clock speeds matter that much in gaming anyways. You don't even need 3.8ghz, tbh. I garentee that he wont pass that custom prime blend that I mentioned.

[QUOTE="artiedeadat40"]

[QUOTE="-GeordiLaForge-"]Lol, Prime95 takes what, like 5 seconds to download? And 48C max core temp @ 4.5GHz fully stressed w/ Prime95 using small in place FFT's is inefficient?? No.... Claiming that your CPU @ 4.2GHz won't go over 50C using an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro is a complete lie. I just called you out on it. Especially since you were hating on my mod. I would go well beyond 4.5GHz with ease, but my FSB wall is about 2000MHz. -GeordiLaForge-

I kind of think that he is full of it as well, I had an AC Freezer myself, but it's not like clock speeds matter that much in gaming anyways. You don't even need 3.8ghz, tbh. I garentee that he wont pass that custom prime blend that I mentioned.

I found this little gem in there as well.

Lots of air flow and reasonable ambient temps keep things chill But yeah, reapplying the thermal paste couldn't hurt. Only reason I'm sitting on 3.8 Ghz is cause my ram is linked to my FSB (bad Gigabyte, bad!) and I don't have time to play with the ram timings, voltage, and latches and such

Kind of contradicts what he said a few posts back. Anyways your ram would perform horribly unlinked, you want your ram on a divider.

1 GB but i think i will upgrade soon + 2 or 3 GB

i got a new computer and was going to get 4, but they had a free upgrade to 6 so i of course choose 6gb.

4 McGigabytes :)

[QUOTE="AzNs3nSaT1On"]8gb, making my OC attempts a living hell right now on my p5q deluxeartiedeadat40

Oh, man do I know the feeling. I have a P5Q D *gb of ram and a quad. You might want to try Ket (XS)/ KetXXX (TPU) modded bios. I'm on 2001m and it's working wonders for me. I also found a custom prime setting that will show errors from the MCH and ramfaster than anything that I have tried by far if you want it. I'm stable as can be right now, but it wasn't fun getting there.

[QUOTE="artiedeadat40"]

[QUOTE="AzNs3nSaT1On"]8gb, making my OC attempts a living hell right now on my p5q deluxeAzNs3nSaT1On

Oh, man do I know the feeling. I have a P5Q D *gb of ram and a quad. You might want to try Ket (XS)/ KetXXX (TPU) modded bios. I'm on 2001m and it's working wonders for me. I also found a custom prime setting that will show errors from the MCH and ramfaster than anything that I have tried by far if you want it. I'm stable as can be right now, but it wasn't fun getting there.

I don't even use IBT, anymore. I've found that if you can pas a few hours of that custom Prime run and a long small fft run that you an easily pass IBT. It puts an insane load on your processor well above tdp that you will never see in real world useage and since I perfer not to use loadline the increaced vdroop from that insane load will cause "instability" that you will never see but IBT dosen't allways pick up on instability as well as some other programs. HyperPi is also a good stress test. I also don't see the need for 4ghz while gaming, tbh.