how do you figure that? You used to be able to get DDR3 for less than $30 for 8GB.
When did that price ever exist?
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how do you figure that? You used to be able to get DDR3 for less than $30 for 8GB.
When did that price ever exist?
When did that price ever exist?
When did that price ever exist?
$42-45 for 8GB was the lowest I've seen.
But now, I wouldn't buy anything less than 8GB sticks.
I wish I had stocked up better on that Samsung Green RAM when it was on sale at Newegg maybe a year ago or something like that. 8GB of DDR3 1600 (2x4GB) was $30 or $35. Now it's selling for $90 or $100 used on ebay.
Short version, 8GB should be fine now, and for the near future. If you do web browsing with lots of tabs open, or have a bunch of programs open at a time, or have anything running in the background while you game, an upgrade to 16GB would be worth considering. I did notice my system felt like it ran smoother after upgrading, but it's nowhere near the improvement I got when upgrading from 4GB to 8GB.
Uhm I run win 7 Pro x64 with 6GB of Ram and Ive never had that issue even with BF4 running.
I have never touched the full 6GB people.
Do we need screenshots to become belibers?
As title,
do you know if latest games uses more than 8Gb of RAM?
If you want facts instead of the broscience in this thread: http://www.techbuyersguru.com/Ramgaming2.php
TL;DR: Some latest games use more than 8GB of RAM.
Remember that your video card uses physical addressable memory equal to the size of its own memory. So in addition to the system memory the game is using there is also memory always reserved for the GPU. So if you have a 3GB video card and games nowadays are using 1-3 GB, you'll want to have at least 8GB of system memory with the worst-case scenario being 6GB of usage. 16GB is pretty much the sweet spot with Windows 7/8 because of the OS overhead of 2-4 GB and dual/quad channel memory controllers.
In BioShock, and only maybe:If you want facts instead of the broscience in this thread: http://www.techbuyersguru.com/Ramgaming2.php
TL;DR: Some latest games use more than 8GB of RAM.
Hypothesizing, but no interest in experimentation to confirm. This, to you, is good science?Update: After many more runs of the Bioshock benchmark for subsequent articles, we've learned that the minimums are greatly affected by hard drive access times due to the frequent scene changes in this benchmark, and our 16GB system likely was impacted the least by this. We doubt the effect would be so pronounced in an actual gaming scenario where scene changes are less frequent.
In BioShock, and only maybe:
Hypothesizing, but no interest in experimentation to confirm. This, to you, is good science?
Hypothesizing, but no interest in experimentation to confirm. This, to you, is good science?
whu? I think you're living in the past... This was something you had to take into account when working with 32 bit os's and their limitations.
With 64-bit Os's (which everyone who has a decent pc should have) this is no longer an issue.
Actually Armenius is right. Thats how it works. Windows puts aside an equal amount of memory for the amount of vram on the gpu.
You have single gpu. All you took from my post was that I was running win7... You have plently of vram so it doesn't get used up. I was running 3 470s so windows tried to offload system ram as vram when I ran out of vram. Therefore system memory usage skyrockets.