StarBound wrote:I've got 8gb. Disable pagefile with that amount and you wont get any disc swapping. Too bad some games needs a pagefile for no damn reason.
Still as said:
If you OC the first if you don't the second.
OC = SPEED
NON-OC = QUANTITY
You could also go and say 8GB = no disc swap and take that as the better option.
So disabling the pagefile with 8GB memory speeds up system performance?
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No they did a test a while ago. disabling the pagefile does improve performance over say a 1gig pagefile but the best was a small pagefile of about 512 megs. Dunno why but the results speak for themselves.
More is better than faster but if you buy more faster later on it's great.
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Personally, I'd go quantity every time, as the speed gains are not as profound as one might think. Only a few frames at most AFAIK.
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I remember way back when 512MB DDR modules were good stuff. Was running a 512MB module in my pc and later installed another. The performance improvement was instantly visible, much more so than switching from SDRAM to DDR.
Moral of the story: "Gaming" ram (or whatever you want to call it) is only better if you are more into running benchmarks or overclocking than actually playing a game or doing some work on your pc. You get more bang for your buck out of putting more ram in.
I just see stats everywhere with less amounts of hellishly expensive RAM marginally out pacing more cheaper RAM.
Plus there's something awesome about a system that doesn't stick when you have a billion apps open.
I need 8gigs just to make my PC smooth. It's annoying.
I would kill to go SB with 12gigs of RAM and I would do it if I had the cash.
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juDge wrote:I was going to get the 2x4GB corsair value select but the 2x4GB corsair xms memory is R200 more in total
They do look cooler.
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JollyJamma wrote:I would kill to go SB with 12gigs of RAM and I would do it if I had the cash.
You sir are giving me ideas
Don't say I don't give you anything.
12gigs of RAM would about do it for most people and is too much RAM but that's never a bad thing.
If a CPU be the muscle the RAM is the lungs, the GPU is the eyes and the hard drive is the...well I can't say in a family forum but you get the picture.
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Slimshaedy wrote:That's right haha but that money would be better spent on a new SSD
FTFY...
honestly... more RAM is fine, but for a serious performance boost take care of that slow as treacle HDD...
Well that would depend on what the judge does more.... if he is purely gaming id do what slim suggested and get a monitor as i read in his other post that he had a 1050p monitor...An SSD will only boost loading times in game and will offer little or no performance boost once the game has loaded the level into the memory... u will see an improvment in certain online games apparently... but if its not just for gaming then ssd ftw!
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The_Jelly wrote:An SSD will only boost loading times in game and will offer little or no performance boost once the game has loaded the level into the memory..
unless it was managing the paging file... in which case?
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