8gb

[Erock]

Anyone know how much 8Gb (4Gbx2) will cost on black Friday? Any comparisons to last years prices? Also, is it worth it to get 8Gb for my comp (specs in sig) or should I just go with 2x2Gb sticks for 4 Gb total?

Sorry this is for my laptop not the desktop

 

[Andrew1990]

I dont see 4GB x 2 coming down in price as the era of DDR2 is going to end at affordable 2GB Sticks in my eyes. We might see affordable DDR3 4GB modules in a few years though....

 

[Erock]

ah, well I'm not entirely sure my cpu can manage 8Gb but I'd assume that 4Gb would be sufficient.

 

[Andrew1990]

4GB of ram have been doing great for me with Vista Ultimate 64 bit. I have not even used more than 3GB of ram and even then I was playing Gears of War.

 

[QuixoticOne]

2x2GB 4GB kit of DDR2 CL6 (yes a bit slow) is $40 AR ($30 MIR) now at fry's. $5 shipping. Get a kit and have a friend get another for you and that's 8GB for $90 after rebates. I very much doubt that the 2x2GB kits will be much less expensive that that level of prices between now and the end of the year. Maybe someone will have a lower rebate or slightly faster RAM for the cost, but I wouldn't expect miracle price drops.

No way are 4GBy capacity individual DDR2 DIMMs going to drop to this price level per gigabyte anytime soon IMHO. I'm not even sure if they'd work on many motherboards / chipsets even if they were available at a good price.

Go with 4x2GB DIMMS for 8GB.. I've done that with Vista 64 and LINUX and it has worked flawlessly and I've been glad that I did so. I often use 4-8GBy memory in actual use conditions given just pretty normal stuff like having a fair number of browsers (yes Firefox is a memory hog), office documents, PDFs, text files, my email, various shells, etc. open at once.

There have been nice deals on 5-5-5-15 DDR2 PC2-6400 memory as well as the faster PC2-8000 and PC2-8500 rated stuff over the past few months as well. Usually you don't see the lowest prices going down too much though you do see them get jacked up to higher levels in between the sales. I would not expect a huge reduction in prices even on BF, and for BF good luck at getting 2 kits of 2x2GB for 8GB total for a super low price given the rebate issues and the order limits and the probability that the good things will sell out quickly et. al.

Anything from about $45/DIMM for the really fast high quality 2GB DIMM memory to $20/DIMM for the really cheap / slower stuff is probably a decent price range to buy.

 

[edplayer]

Originally posted by: QuixoticOneI often use 4-8GBy memory in actual use conditions given just pretty normal stuff like having a fair number of browsers (yes Firefox is a memory hog), ...

How many pages do you have open at a time, like 400?

I usually have between 10 thru 20 and its always under 250MB

 

[GarfieldtheCat]

Originally posted by: Erock
ah, well I'm not entirely sure my cpu can manage 8Gb but I'd assume that 4Gb would be sufficient.

If you don't have Vista-64, you will only be able to use 4gig (actually ~3.5gig) anyway.

 

[taltamir]

4GB x 2 sticks run at 250$ (half of what it was months ago), while 2x2GB was about 70$ for a top end 1066mhz module.

If you want 8GB then buy two packages of 2 sticks of 2GB. If you need to buy a new motherboard for it, you will still be paying a fraction of the cost.

The ONLY reason to get 4GB modules at the moment is to get 16GB of ram (4x4GB)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820231181
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820231182
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820231183

 

[QuixoticOne]

400-800 tabs open over 50-90 windows isn't uncommon.
I'm working on a theory that it crashes when it gets to 4GB memory in use or something like that.
Right now it is only using 1GB or so because it just recently loaded and because I have images and cache disabled for the most part.
Usually I see it sitting there around 3.5GB in use when I load one of the more commonly bloated sessions it has saved. Pages just sort of accumulate until every once in a while I close the obsolete stuff or more likely it crashes and closes it for me until it restarts and reloads them all.

Mem: 8198464k total, 4862612k used, 3335852k free, 436584k buffers
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
23760 20 0 1474m 957m 23m S 0.0 12.0 5:52.55 firefox
14077 20 0 625m 267m 12m S 0.0 3.3 0:12.11 evince
32325 20 0 767m 252m 24m S 0.3 3.2 2:37.09 thunderbird-bin
3209 20 0 929m 157m 56m S 0.0 2.0 1:56.87 swriter.bin
2916 20 0 506m 143m 13m S 3.7 1.8 281:17.23 Xorg
3185 20 0 638m 120m 18m S 0.0 1.5 19:26.87 nautilus
3241 20 0 360m 77m 8656 S 0.8 1.0 28:52.15 sensors-applet
3210 20 0 596m 71m 13m S 0.3 0.9 0:19.66 gnome-terminal
3193 20 0 489m 42m 16m S 0.0 0.5 0:31.13 pidgin
3228 20 0 322m 37m 9456 S 0.0 0.5 2:28.80 wnck-applet

Originally posted by: edplayer

Originally posted by: QuixoticOneI often use 4-8GBy memory in actual use conditions given just pretty normal stuff like having a fair number of browsers (yes Firefox is a memory hog), ...

How many pages do you have open at a time, like 400?
I usually have between 10 thru 20 and its always under 250MB

 

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: Erock
ah, well I'm not entirely sure my cpu can manage 8Gb but I'd assume that 4Gb would be sufficient.

If you have that old of a chipset, it's questionable that your board can accept 8 GB of RAM, what model Dell is it?

If you are going to buy it, get it now. DDR2 isn't getting any cheaper and anything on sale on Black Friday will probably be smaller sticks(1GB and below) that retailers are trying to clear out.