I'm not that good on memory specs

[jpk]

Currently I have 4gb of OCZ PC3 10666 ram on my machine. It's 2x 2gb sticks. They are running stock and the timing are 7.7.7.@ 1.65 volts. Part number is OCZ3P1333LV4GK. I'm looking at the Newegg Corsair memory deal, 8gb DDR3 1600 PC3 12800 for $90.00. Is it worth it to replace my current ram with it or should I just get 4 more gb's of the OCZ that I already have? I do light gaming. My machine specs are in my sig. I don't know much about ram timings etc.. Thanks for any input.

 

[Blain]

You're running an SLI combo for "light gaming"?
Are you telling us the whole story?

 

[JGR]

Higher capacity makes for greater difference than higher speed - especially since you only have 4GB. RAM by nature is already fast, so increasing the quantity to reduce system reliability on a paging file is going to be far more noticeable. I would recommend upgrading to 8 over replacing your memory.

 

[jpk]

Ahem....yes. I only light game. But when I do game I like to be able to game at a decent frame rate and resoloution. Don't you?

 

[Emulex]

well 2x260 < 1 GTX580. I have this dudes GTX295 but its so old it's not worth the power draw when a slightly more modern single processor card would do more work.

any 8gb is fine. honestly the lack of ssd and that slow phenom is more of a bottleneck to your gaming. ssd ftw

 

[Blain]

Ahem....yes. I only light game. But when I do game I like to be able to game at a decent frame rate and resoloution. Don't you?

I'm too busy at the Help Desk to worry about any gaming.

 

[Emulex]

i had to type in my level1 and level2 games from magazines and books - so i kinda ran out of steam on gaming in the 90's. But i'd like to figure out how to get a pair of GTX580's in SLI mode running in this UCS server i was sent. dual 750's should have enough rail to power them if i just boot off a small ssd.

p.s. don't sweat memory. sweat a well rounded upgrade path. not having SSD makes your machine slow and will be the greatest gratifying upgrade of the century. 8gb will feel like nothing. very unfulfilling

 

[VirtualLarry]

If you're only light gaming, somehow I doubt that you would even notice the difference between 4GB and 8GB. I have 8GB in my desktop machine (running 64-bit Win7 HP SP1), and I hardly can tell the difference. It does show that it's caching more RAM (less than 1GB free mem, like 4-5GB cached), but I don't know that I notice the difference at all.

I only went to 8GB to "future proof" my Q9300 quad-cores as much as I can, assuming that as more apps move to 64-bit in the next 5 years, that they may start taking up more RAM.

 

[Emulex]

ram compression will make a comeback shortly. it's already being used in esxi to prevent page swaps.