too much memory?

[Zenobia]

With many motherboards now supporting 16 Gb of memory and the price of memory being pretty low, is there any DISadvantage to maxing out at 16?

 

[Rifter]

the disadvantage is 4GB sticks are alot more than twice the cost of 2GB sticks

 

[Idontcare]

Memory latency will be higher, power consumption will be higher, frequency of soft errors will be higher. Will the increases in any of these metrics be large enough to meaningfully impact the end-user? Only the end-user can say.

 

[Blain]

If you can tell your mates that you're running 16GBs of memory...
No amount of errors are too much! :thumbsup::laugh: You just keep that information to yourself.

 

[JASTECH]

When I do graphics and the files exceed 1.7GB then you should have more, other then that "I" don't see a big difference in performance myself.

Thanks, JASTECH

 

[Zenobia]

thanking y'all

 

[taltamir]

note that while those are indeed the issues with increasing ram by very high amounts, none of them are very significant. (with ram)

 

[cbn]

Originally posted by: Idontcare
Memory latency will be higher, power consumption will be higher, frequency of soft errors will be higher. Will the increases in any of these metrics be large enough to meaningfully impact the end-user? Only the end-user can say.

Are you talking about 4GB sticks vs 2 GB sticks (in general) or are you talking about filling all 4 DIMMs of a motherboard?

I guess what I am trying to ask is this-----> What is worse using Four 2GB sticks or two 4GB sticks?

 

[pjkenned]

I'm running 12GB on my main PC right now. It would be a total waste save I do have some 64 bit programs that I'm using for editing that are HUGE, plus the fact that I like to do other things while I'm waiting for renders if I'm actually sitting around. I'm guessing for many people 4GB of ram is fine. 12GB just means you can deal with large segments without relying upon the hard drives. Also, if you are running VM's 12GB would be almost required.

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: Just learning

Originally posted by: Idontcare
Memory latency will be higher, power consumption will be higher, frequency of soft errors will be higher. Will the increases in any of these metrics be large enough to meaningfully impact the end-user? Only the end-user can say.

Are you talking about 4GB sticks vs 2 GB sticks (in general) or are you talking about filling all 4 DIMMs of a motherboard?

I guess what I am trying to ask is this-----> What is worse using Four 2GB sticks or two 4GB sticks?

four sticks is much worse than two sticks of twice the density