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Is Now the Best Time to buy DDR2 RAM?

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DaRkUnitX

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Is Now the Best Time to buy DDR2 RAM?

I currently have 2GB of ram on my laptop. I was thinking of upgrading to 4GB, but I don't really need it so i am wondering if the prices low as it will ever be for DDR2.
 
Do you do anything that's going to use the extra RAM? If not, why bother?

If so, then now is a pretty good time to buy. As Core i7 catches on and more CPUs and motherboards become available the demand for DDR2 will decrease. Whether that will happen in the next couple months or closer to a year is not something I could guess at.
 
I'm not really using the extra RAM as I don't really do gaming on my laptop, but I do plan to use this laptop for a very long time until it breaks or something like 5 years+ if that is possible. I don't have the kind of cash to reinvest in a new computer all the time.
 
same reason i upped the ram in one of my pcs to 8GB. in a years or 2s time when i might need it, the cost of DDR2 then could be sky high (like DDR now). RAM is so so so cheap right now that it's almost rude not to upgrade 🙂
 
Heya,

I grabbed 8gigs of DD2 800 RAM at around $50. There was simply no reason not to at that price. I use Vista x64 and I turned off the page file. I don't notice any performance increase over 4 gigs, honestly, but I don't have to hear my discs whirling with indexing and page filing and I don't worry about a memory crash having a low amount of RAM and not having a page file. I've yet to get a message about being low on memory or having a hard crash/dump/etc. I have noticed less `apparent' lag times though simply because it all stays in RAM instead of getting page filed. Small tiny things just feel nicer. And cheap high capacity RAM does it.

If you have the expansion room, no reason not to really at these prices.

Very best,
 
Originally posted by: MalVeauX
Heya,

I grabbed 8gigs of DD2 800 RAM at around $50. There was simply no reason not to at that price. I use Vista x64 and I turned off the page file. I don't notice any performance increase over 4 gigs, honestly, but I don't have to hear my discs whirling with indexing and page filing and I don't worry about a memory crash having a low amount of RAM and not having a page file. I've yet to get a message about being low on memory or having a hard crash/dump/etc. I have noticed less `apparent' lag times though simply because it all stays in RAM instead of getting page filed. Small tiny things just feel nicer. And cheap high capacity RAM does it.

If you have the expansion room, no reason not to really at these prices.

Very best,
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Hey there, just wondering if turning the pagefile off in Vista32 or 64 is recommended with say only 4 gigs or do you need more to do so without taking a performance hit. I ask because my laptop maxes out at 4gigs and my desktop currently has 4.
 
Prices of a particular type of RAM follow a pattern. They start out high and slowly go down. Since they are a commodity item, their prices have ups and downs depending on the economic situation, new uses for the product, lawsuits, and a million other variables.

At some point, when new technology (DDR3) is introduced, they reach their cheapest level. Everybody makes them, the manufacturing technology is fully developed, and there's lots of inventory.

Then, as RAM makers shut down their old lines and open up their new lines (to build DDR3), the prices will start to slowly climb.

If you luck out and time it right, you can buy RAM, use it for a year or two, and sell it at a profit. If you are good at that, become a stockbroker.
 
Originally posted by: TemjinGold
Hey there, just wondering if turning the pagefile off in Vista32 or 64 is recommended with say only 4 gigs or do you need more to do so without taking a performance hit. I ask because my laptop maxes out at 4gigs and my desktop currently has 4.
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Heya,

At 4gigs, I wouldn't. You could, mind, but I still wouldn't. It greatly depends on what software you run. If using design software, then no. But if you're just casual browsing and gaming, you could get away with it. Though some games truly eat up the ram (WoW is one of them). So again, depends what you do on that PC. After 6gigs, you can easily turn it off without worry though.

You won't take a performance hit by taking off the page file. If anything you get a gain, because no longer does your system crawl while writing/reading a file on your HDD, instead, everything has to be in RAM and that's lighting fast to access. The only down side is stability because if you have no page file and your system fills the RAM and then needs more space for some active task, something gets dumped from the RAM to make room and if it was something you needed for something else you're running, you'll likely crash or get a BSOD, etc. If you have 2gigs, you can try this out if you want to see what it looks like when a system with no virtual memory uses a lot of memory and there's not enough ram. It will crash. However, if you have tons of RAM, you can easily nuke the page file and enjoy your system using just RAM and not worrying about crashes at the high end of capacity in RAM, as you likely won't fill it unless using massive design projects (photoshop work for example, video editing, etc; keep virtual memory/page file for that even if you have tons of RAM, it's not worth losing your work potentially over).

Very best,

 
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