Following on from this http://www.briskoda.net/forums/tech-shed/decision-time-pls-help-upgrades/91084/

I'm just about ready to order, but am undecided on the quantity of ram.

I'm gonna keep with xp for now. Which will only see 3 if put 4 in, but is there a patch floating around or did I dream that one.

As for future proofing with 4, this build will probably be gone by the time I need 4 gig of ram anyway.

I kinda set on 2 gig as I've gone a bit crazy with the mobo price....... £180 :eek::eek: for an effin mobo. about £80 more than I wanted to spend.

But if anyone can convince me otherwise I'm open to suggestion so feel free

What are you going to be using it (the new PC) for?

Games and video conversion will be the most punishment it will get and a bit of folding when not doing these

AFAIK, with 32-bit XP you cannot see all 4Gb, but with the 64-bit version you can, although I'm not sure what the rest of your system is to know if 64-bit is viable. FWIW, I do video-editing with a poxy 1Gb of RAM and the real bottle neck is the hard drive rather than RAM. I guess you can always buy 2 Gb now and then upgrade later if you decide you need more

Chris

It's a quad core intel 6600 with a badboy motherboard so yes it is 64 bit capable. But I've heard of problems on 64 bit systems with drivers etc that I can't see myself going down that road yet.

As for the hdd it's a samsung spinpoint which in a few benchmarks comes out better than a WD raptors at certain tasks, so that shouldn't be a problem.

The main reason for buying 4 gig now would be to get modules from the same batch to help with overclocking (latency's timing etc)

Chris is right. Get 2GB now, then get another gig or two if you find you need it.

My work PC has 4Gb fitted but XP can only use 3gb.

I got 4BG, it only see's £.25, but it's fine enough

As long as your MOBO supports DDR2 then 2GB with a speed of 667mhz (PC5300 iirc) or above will be fine. I cant see you needing more than that even for video editing and i dont know of a game requires more than 1GB of Ram. Or if you are feeling flush wait a bit and get DDR3.

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I think 2 should be cool like I say a 64 bit Os is probably another 2 years away for me. By then I will more than likely be thinking about the latest super cpu which is out anyway, which will mean new ram, board etc

No need for 4 gig... i guess its a nice to have, with certain sites saying its the "sweet spot" for vista. but i find that 2gb is fine..

wtf you spending so much on a mobo for :eek: its a bit excessive dont ya think?? maybe if you were going watercooling or phase-change, but its well OTT for a casual overclocker!

wtf you spending so much on a mobo for :eek: its a bit excessive dont ya think?? maybe if you were going watercooling or phase-change, but its well OTT for a casual overclocker!

I was thinking the same myself and came to the conclusion that it has the new chipset, plenty of feature's and I just like the look of it lol

Plus you only live once

Its all ordered

Thanks for all the help gents

I'll let you know what it runs like:D

blimey and theres me floundering over getting my second hand 2.66ghz going correctly! LOL

what mobo is it?

what mobo is it?

One of these...........ASUS Maximus Formula Special Edition Republic of Gamers X38 Socket 775 8 channel Audio ATX Motherboard - Ebuyer

ah cool, I got the Asus P5E with the X38 chipset

ah cool, I got the Asus P5E with the X38 chipset

So are you up for an local South Wales arms race :)

X38's at the ready

Whats yours currently clocked at

I wasn't allowed 4 gig of RAM, Colin wouldn't let me :(

I wasn't allowed 4 gig of RAM, Colin wouldn't let me :(

Yeah he kinda put the nail in the 4 gig coffin for me as well

So are you up for an local South Wales arms race :)

X38's at the ready

Whats yours currently clocked at

LOL it's wargames all over again...

What kind of FSB are you guys getting with the x38? I've seen some good results over on XS.

I'm thinking of replacing my DS4 (965) soon but need something that does more than the 487mhz i'm getting now. (water, phase and volt mod assisted.)

Just been talking a customer about the spec of one of their 8 big servers and they tell me they each have between 45-52Gb of RAM. Kind of puts my poxy PC into perspective

Chris

Just been talking a customer about the spec of one of their 8 big servers and they tell me they each have between 45-52Gb of RAM. Kind of puts my poxy PC into perspective

Chris

Yeah but its if they use it properly or not :P

Our hosting team are nutters, because they dont really have a clue on what they are doing they throw rather overspecced servers at problems....

Print server - DL360 G5 dual Quad-Core Xeons...... 12gb ram :eek:

Domain controller, dual quad core xeons - 8gb ram

And then they whinge about getting a "powerful" box for Vmware ESX, so im stuck with a dual Xeon3 1.2gig and 3gb ram... :mad:

i should put F@H on them i think

Yeah but its if they use it properly or not :P

They certainly do and even manage to max out all 64 CPU's. Hmmm now that sounds like a revenue growth stream opportunity

Lucky they're using a real scaleable architecture :P:rofl:

Chris