I was building a new rig and have 4 2g sticks of ripjaw gskill from my old build and was wondering if it would be worth it to buy 2 4g sticks to replace them with? I only play wow in case your wondering wat i do on my comp
I was building a new rig and have 4 2g sticks of ripjaw gskill from my old build and was wondering if it would be worth it to buy 2 4g sticks to replace them with? I only play wow in case your wondering wat i do on my comp
Two 4 gig sticks are best, some motherboards can be a bit pissy with having all their DIMMs filled*, also allows you to further expand with another 2 in the future. However, as a stop gap if you're saving funds, you could use the 4 sticks and not take much of a performance hit.
* mid-high end motherboards don't tend to suffer from this, neither to most budget ones, but some do.
more then 4 gigs of ram wont make any difference for processes that aren't movie rendering or large graphical applications. (Or if you insist on having a million things open at once, although the CPU is 80% likely to be the bottleneck before the RAM is.)
Last edited by Alandalus; 2013-12-20 at 08:59 PM.
depends on the cpu and ram speed, 4 sticks put more load on the IMC which will make it more likely for it to be unstable and thus requiring more voltage when overclocked. this used to be a point of concern with Intel's nehalem/lynnfield/Sandy Bridge chips because their IMC only ran 1066/1333mhz stock and most common DDR3 ram speeds are 1600mhz. Intel Ivy Bridge/Haswell both run 1600mhz stock, so using 4 sticks of 2gb 1600mhz ram won't be an issue. it most likely won't be an issue regardless though.
Last edited by mmoc1fd5dd6e8c; 2013-12-20 at 09:01 PM.
This is certainly untrue in todays' numbers. I recently upgraded to 16 gb ram and the performace boost was immense. That said, I rarely use more than 8 gbs, but in spikes, it does get into the 12 gb ballpark. I would say quite the opposite, ram is 80% more likely to be the bottleneck before CPU ever is, unless it's a very old one.
its on a asus m5a97 r2.0 and a fx-6300 6 core stock
I got more RAM last year because I was sitting at 4 GB, and playing music with WoW running and about 6 browser tabs open was pushing the limits of my 4 GB. Just sitting here on the browser, the OS and background processes with my browser are around 2.5 GB, and WoW can sit around 1 GB as well. If you then like to have Steam open, along with a chat client, you could easily be scraping 4 GB with typical use. With some newer games, the RAM consumption can be even greater, so I'd say that 8 GB is where you want to be to avoid being concerned with RAM consumption. It might not be typical, but many will probably have to think about RAM consumption during some gaming environments with only 4 GB present.
Considering I have 5gb of RAM, and I'm constantly having trouble managing how many programs are open, I'd have to say 8gb+ is the only way to go. My poor hard drive is constantly being thrashed in newer games. WoW is generally OK, but BF4, skyrim, AC4, etc, all max out my RAM AND my Swap.
Hell, just idling with 4 browser tabs, steam, and the battle.net client running, I'm sitting at 39% ram usage and 37% swap usage.
Ugh, I can't wait to upgrade the rest of my computer...
I legitimately didn't know you could do that, haha.