Just really need a confirmation or more information on the topic. I've read in other forums that only overclocking core and memory have no benefit. Overclocking the shader core is what increases your ppd.

True, false?

No, as a matter of fact. I had already given my answer to the question in my first post which basically answered the question for gaming and, more than gaming.

I suggest you read it. Every post I made after that wasn't geared toward his question.

Two of these in RAID0 = 5.9 rating (more affordable than a raptor, + 10gb more space)

5.4 is still good though I guess.

how many times am i going to see someone say, 'well first you need a 64bit os'

read the thread, that must have been mentioned 10 times already, we all know you need a x64 operating system, say something different, like does any one know how it affects your computers ability to fold? for all those people on the gamespot folding team, it might help, idk, maybe not.

wolfdogelite

lol...

OMG, they were talking gaming wise!!!

Bebi_vegeta

I'm not sure if you read the thread title, or even the first questions made by the TC. He never said anything about gaming. But whatever...

i run photoshop, illustrator, in design and flash perfectly fine with 4 gigs of ram, that being said even while downloading a torrent, listening to itunes, and running photoshop.. ive never used more than 80% of my ram...nimatoad2000

I'll say it again. You're never really going to max your memory. The paging file takes care of that. Once you get into the high numbers of ram usage, more and more goes to paging than to ram. Photoshop is capable of addressing 3gb of ram by itself. On that note, I bet you've never seen this option in photoshop, which is why it doesn't use much ram for you:

no, 32!!!  

Didn't photoshop move over to using graphics cards in the most recent release anyway?  But anyway, 8 gigs is not even close to needed for gaming right now.  I would rather wait for core i7 and ddr3

Munkyman587

The CUDA for Photoshop Cs4 only works for panning and zooming on images.

We all know what the TC is doing with his PC... so it wouldn't be a smart buy.I don't know why we are talking about the extreme PC user when this has nothing to do with the TC request.

Bebi_vegeta

Just trying to prove a point to all the "8gb is useless (period) and oh, I've never maxed out my ram so whats the point?" people.

Good to have you on board! :) I'm going to tell you to make sure you're running 2 GPU clients for the 9800GX2. That card can get really hot, make sure you have it well ventilated and crank up the fan. X360PS3AMD05

It's been cold lately so I can run two GPU clients fairly well. 85% fan gives an average of about 70c on both cores. Took some time to get the two clients working right. Only run both cores when I'm not using the computer, otherwise it's one core or just cpu console. I've tried using the SMP for multicore processors but I always get a damaged file error on installation.

Yes, I did say some people.

Daytone said it's pointless, period.

LOL, 8GB's is pointless

Daytona_178

Too many people who have no clue that 8gb of ram is actually useful for some people.

muirplayer

Too many threads on this topic. Too many people who have no clue that 8gb of ram is actually useful for some people.

It's going to depend on what you plan on doing with or how you use your computer. Once you get to 4gb you wont see any improvement in games, only in other applications, multitasking, time taken switching between windows or other applications. It's all about the performance. It's only a waste of money if you have no way of utilizing it.