High-Density DDR3: Five Dual-Module 8GB Kits Compared

[Guest]

I paid $80.00 for 8 gigs of ddr2 800 OCZ Gold before the price went up, I win!

 

[Crashman]

[citation][nom]phoboz[/nom]I paid $80.00 for 8 gigs of ddr2 800 OCZ Gold before the price went up, I win![/citation]
If you call any price for outdated components a win...

 

[reese8220]

I dropped a little over 200 for the G.Skill Ripjaws, not regretting it one bit!

 

[jebusv20]

[citation][nom]Crashman[/nom]Nobody will use more than 12GB of memory, 16GB should be enough for anyone.[/citation]
I think it was Mr Bill Gates who said something similar about 64Kb of memory at the release of his DOS system, I also said something similar when I built my mum's PC with 2Gb of RAM.

Although, the above comment is starting to (scarily) seam to have come to pass, I've only got 8Gb of DDR2800, but I run with NO pagefile, in a chockerblock windows7 OS, and RARELY use more than 4gb of my memory!

16 Gb? its all for show really. IMO

 

[Guest]

rpmrush, sry mate but have you tried playin crysis in 64bit? when i tabbed out and had a look, my 4gb memory was maxed out, to play high end games like that you need 4gb, 6gb recommended i agree 12 is a bit much tho

 

[Guest]

For the ones that are on WinXP 32 bits and 4 Gig of memory, buy SuperSpeed LLC and use the remaining (unvisible) Ram for a (700 MB) RAM Drive and have some fun. Put the Temp files on it and let the IE and Firefox cache point to the RAM drive.

 

[Guest]

I am running Win 7 64 bit so I can run 64 bit Photoshop CS5. I work with large images and several layers, and frequently multiple images at once. An X58 motherboard + Core i7 9xx system will run slower with two banks of RAM than with one bank, so I was delighted to find a Patriot Viper 2 set of 3 x 4GB of DDR3 in June - cost me about 30% more than buying 2 sets of 3x2GB, and I considered that perfectly acceptable to get the performance benefit. Now I'm running 12Gb.

Those who are claiming that there's no benefit to having more than 4GB of RAM are probably suffering from sour grapes.

 

[klockwerk]

You're insane to pay $400.+ for 8 gig of mem. I just paid $129 for CORSAIR CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 4 by gig sticks. The JEDEC timings are nearly identical. Toms Hardware is loosing it's grip on the real world.

 

[klockwerk]

Dang, can't read my own message from all the ads poping up.

 

[tmc]

Sure, it's 2011, winter.. it's time for the greedy memory makers to have a heart & lower the price for the 4gb capacity. While making 8gb & 16gb dimms in more quantity. MORE programs can stay loaded & be running at the same time. Woo Hoo! IMO 4gb runs alot w/o slowdowns as it is.. From what I've seen the "killer app" is utilizing multiple screens for various tasks. These kinds of 'multi-screen output multi-tasking' were reserved for "server" computing. Today, they are readily available to the home consumer with an array of screens in a HTPC setup (with some cash to burn through).

 

[dangolo]

"Now to find the lowest stable timings of each module set at standard speeds using a 1T command rate."

What tools did you use to figure that out, or was it deduction by trial and error? THAT is my favorite thing in the whole article, teach me oh wise one!

 

[Guest]

I render high resolution stitched images (e.g bigger than 20,000 by 10,000 pixels in 32 bit color). This process is RAM limited - the whole of the image must be in RAM at once which means either heaps and heaps of hard disk swapping -think 72 hour rendering time- or lots of RAM.
I have 8GB installed, and it is not enough to render my bigger images. I could go to 16MB, but I'm holding out for 8GB modules to become available so I can go straight to 24GB.