4gb at 1T or 6gb at 2T

[srp49ers]

I basically play games, occasionally edit movies. Do you guys think its better to keep the timings tight and at 1t, or move to 6gigs but loosen timings.

thanks

 

[ss284]

If you manage to use more than 4gb of memory go with the 6gb at 2t. If not stick with 4gb at 1t. The performance gap between the two might be 10% at most in specific games/applications in favor of the 1t setup, but once you run out of ram it tips heavily in favor of the 6gb setup.

 

[taltamir]

In the long term, more ram is always better than faster ram... unless you have more ram then you are going to need. But eventually the ram fills up, especially as time progresses programs are made to take up more and more ram, so the more ram will be more useful and valuable.

However if you have plenty of money, don't care about resale value, and switch hardware very often (every few months) as new hardware becomes available, AND don't do anything that fills up 4GB at the moment... than you can get greater speed with it.

 

[videogames101]

I thought that the hit was negligible, but certainly, check your RAM usage. If you go over 4GB, add the extra 2GB.

 

[Denithor]

On the old Socket 939 chips the hit was significant. On AM2/AM2+ and all modern Intel chips, not so much.

 

[Elixer]

Originally posted by: srp49ers
I basically play games, occasionally edit movies. Do you guys think its better to keep the timings tight and at 1t, or move to 6gigs but loosen timings.

thanks

While 6GB will not help in 99.99999% of the games, it will help when you edit movies.
What CPU you got anyway?