Please please please, for the love of whatever you consider holy, back this up with some facts. Would love to see it. 4GB is still really enough for gaming honestly. 8GB is still really overkill.
http://www.techspot.com/article/1043...ram/page3.html
No real discernible difference between 4, 8 or 16GB RAM for gaming. They even state at the end of the article that with 16GBs of RAM, those were the only 3 games they tested that used more than 6GB, with 65 Chrome Tabs open. Even though it used more than 6GB when 16GB was available though, there was no difference in performance at all dropping down the 4GB.
That's the thing people really fail to understand ALL THE TIME. Just because a game or program uses more RAM when it is available, does not necessarily mean it needs all the RAM it is using. It can accomplish the same performance with less RAM. This is due to the way things are pre-cached. If more RAM is available, it will pre-cache more and leave things there it doesn't need anymore. It doesn't really need all that RAM, it just uses it if it's there.
Sure, if you do other things that require more RAM it can make a difference, like encoding or compressing:
http://www.techspot.com/article/1043-8gb-vs-16gb-ram/
Even in simulations though, not a big difference between 8 and 16, and depending on the application, not even much difference from 4 to 8 sometimes:
http://www.techspot.com/article/1043...ram/page2.html
Now, don't think I am telling people to get 4GB. I am not. Get 8GB for sure. If you have the room in the budget and already have your CPU, GPU and an SSD, then sure, spring for 16. But to say that games need it is ridiculous. Keep in mind, in the gaming performance, they did that with 65 Chrome Tabs open and going from 4 to 8 still made no real difference in gaming performance. So please, if you are going to say people need 16 because games need 8, prove it.
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If you want to say go for it for looks that's fine. But to say they cool better is absolutely false:
http://www.relaxedtech.com/reviews/n...quid-coolers/2
The NH-D15 cools the same as the kraken x61 and the H100i at idle. Actually, 1 degree better than the h100i. Under load, yeah, the Kraken is better by a whopping 4 degrees, but we are stlil way way far away from dangerous temps. In addition, the NH-D15 is quieter than all of them, due to the lack of pushing air through tiny radiator holes and a pump. All the air cooler noise comes from the fans. AIO Coolers have fan noise, "whooshing" noise from air being forced through a radiator and a pump that makes some noise. They are more expensive, for the same cooling, while being noisier. Looks are the only real reason to buy them.