Do I need 12GB of ram?

[Pray To Jesus]

Or should I sell the extra 6gb?

 

[postmortemIA]

I'm happy with 4GB. Unless you are using some RAM intensive Sw, 6GB shall be enough for everything else. For now

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Keep your ram. You might end up with $10 after shipping, Paypal fees, etc..

 

[Red Squirrel]

If you have it may as well use it. That's assuming you are using Windows 7 64. If you're using XP then 4 is the max. (or is it 3.5?) I was running 4GB for a while on my new win7 machine as I was troubleshooting an issue and had taken out all but one stick. I found it quite tight. I'd often get low memory messages, especially when using autocad, photoshop, UT3 editor and other apps of that nature. 6GB will give you that extra buffer, 12GB will give you even more buffer.

 

[Icecold]

With how cheap DDR3 is, I see no reason to go less than 8GB unless using a DDR2 board. I run 8GB on a few machines and 16GB on a couple others, but just received my set of 4 8GB sticks so will be going 32GB on one machine.(I have a specific work application that needs lots of ram, 32GB should work well)

 

[Red Squirrel]

Keep your ram. You might end up with $10 after shipping, Paypal fees, etc..

Pretty much this.

 

[Paolo]

Ramdisk ?

 

[gmaster456]

The fact that you have to ask means you most likely don't need it...

That being said I would still keep it. You won't end up with much if you end up selling it.

 

[Burner27]

Keep it. You can never have too much ram. Besides, as was said above, you won't make back what you paid for it.

If you decide to run Virtual Machines you will need that extra ram....

 

[aaksheytalwar]

Keep it. 6gb won't sell for much considering how cheap new ram is. Besides, you will need it 2-3 years down for some machine at least

 

[Emulex]

12gb is alot for non-ecc.