DDR2

[pcslookout]

Is it worth upgrading pass 4 GB with DDR2 to like 6 or 8 GB or is it better to wait for DDR3 to become more mainstream and cheaper down the line ?

 

[krotchy]

4GB is sweet spot in Vista IMO, dunno what more will accomplish for most people, but I suppose you could max out your board at 8GB and just get it over with.

DDR3 is excessively costly at the moment and not really a worthwhile upgrade at all IMO. No sense in looking down the line constantly, or you will never buy anything.

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: krotchy
4GB is sweet spot in Vista IMO, dunno what more will accomplish for most people, but I suppose you could max out your board at 8GB and just get it over with.

DDR3 is excessively costly at the moment and not really a worthwhile upgrade at all IMO. No sense in looking down the line constantly, or you will never buy anything.

Wow seems like the tide with ram is changing overnight from all the great ram deal yesterday. Now 4 GB is the sweet spot for Vista! Glad to see the standard is being raised just like 512mb of ram to 1 gig of ram was and so on. Not saying this to be mean just impressed how quick great sales for ram can change the attitude of how much ram is the sweet spot for Vista! I remember reading in Hot deals someone said, can't remember the poster name, but he said something like this "With the way ram prices are going we are all going to have to upgrade to 64 bit sooner than later." You do need 64 bit for anything over 3 GB yes.

I think soon we will be seeing a lot more 64 bit question in the OS forum and more people using Windows Vista 64 bit!

 

[pcslookout]

Can extra ram like lets say 2 GB vs 4 GB help with being able to use your pc as a PVR in the background while playing the latest games at the same time with a Intel Duo E6420 processor ? I have a WD 150 gig raptor I use for my OS, Applications, and game installations. My Hitachi 500 gig is used for data like for my video recording off my pvr card. Do you think doing both of these things at the same time would require more of a quad core intel processor instead or better off to put the pvr card its own separate pc if possible?

 

[cmdrdredd]

Well, there's many reasons someone would want 8GB. Vm work, 3dSMax work which can eat memory down, Lots of large sound files and special editing software can take a good chunk, video encoding work working with large files or multiple files at a time, some complex photoshop files can also take a large amount of memory. Now lets say you need to work between multiple programs at once without shutting them down and closing their respective files. That eats memory.