Which is Better Higher OC or More RAM ?

[poohbear]

the stuttering stopped when i was going from 4gb to 8gb, not 8gb to 16gb. no errors, the RAM worked awesome, stuttering means it was going to the HDD for Virtual RAM, very common and very easy to discern. BF3 can use more than 4gb RAM no problem. That's my experience anyways.

 

[moonbogg]

8gb is a lot actually. No way will you run out doing normal stuff.

 

[Arkaign]

8gb is a lot actually. No way will you run out doing normal stuff.

Unless you are one of those freaks who has 200 tabs open in Chrome, hahaha.

 

[Arkaign]

the stuttering stopped when i was going from 4gb to 8gb, not 8gb to 16gb. no errors, the RAM worked awesome, stuttering means it was going to the HDD for Virtual RAM, very common and very easy to discern. BF3 can use more than 4gb RAM no problem. That's my experience anyways.

Ditto. Even on my old gaming laptop, moving from 4GB to 6GB eliminated the BF3 stutter syndrome. I think it uses marginally more than 4GB, but enough to make it hitch unless you've got the settings really stripped down a ton.

 

[Makaveli]

Unless you are one of those freaks who has 200 tabs open in Chrome, hahaha.

I c what you did here

 

[MrSquished]

Ditto. Even on my old gaming laptop, moving from 4GB to 6GB eliminated the BF3 stutter syndrome. I think it uses marginally more than 4GB, but enough to make it hitch unless you've got the settings really stripped down a ton.

i don't see that kind of usage out of bf3. i play at 1920x1200 resolution with a 58501gb card, run everything on high. it uses under 2gb of memory, like around 1.5gb.

maybe i need to enable AA, but will that really add 2.5gb of RAM usage?

 

[poohbear]

i don't see that kind of usage out of bf3. i play at 1920x1200 resolution with a 58501gb card, run everything on high. it uses under 2gb of memory, like around 1.5gb.

maybe i need to enable AA, but will that really add 2.5gb of RAM usage?

are u playing with Ultra settings? don;t know what to tell u, with my setup 4gb vs 8gb stopped the stuttering. (now im @ 16gb, but that never made any difference with BF3)

 

[tweakboy]

I am trying to decide whether to keep 16 GB ram and run CPU @ 3.2GHZ or just use 8 GB and run @ 3.8GHZ .

I want to get back to PC gaming. I am usually 6-12 months behind the current gaming trends ( wait for game $ to go lower). Mainly play 1st person shooters and RTS/RPG games at low-medium settings.

AMD Phenom X4 830 (stock 2.8ghz)
Patriot 8GB 1333MHZ and 8GB 1066MHZ ( affects o.c )
ASUS M4A88TM
Radeon 7770 1gb
Win 7-64 bit
Coolermaster hyper 101A w/push-pull fans.

You can do 16GB and run CPU @ 3.8 by using divider.
You can high OC and get your RAM with it too... come on now,,, nb gl

 

[MrSquished]

are u playing with Ultra settings? don;t know what to tell u, with my setup 4gb vs 8gb stopped the stuttering. (now im @ 16gb, but that never made any difference with BF3)

play bf3 and check how much memory it uses.

when you say bf3 uses 4gb do you mean bf3 itself uses 4gb of RAM, or do you mean 4GB of total system ram was not enough because other programs and the OS were using RAM at the same time.

 

[fyb3r]

RAM has to do with how much you can run at one time. the CPU deals with how fast it runs...

2 very different subjects.

 

[shady28]

For now, definitely run 3.8 with 8GB. You'll never use 16GB with current games.

^^^^^^

That's the correct answer. Virtually all games will actually run fine on a 64 bit system with 4GB of RAM provided you aren't running Vuze or 30 tabs on a web browser at the same time.

I'm saying that as I write this on my gaming PC - a Q9550 / GTX 260 with 4GB of RAM on Win 7 64 bit. I have yet to find a game that causes RAM issues with my gaming PC at 4GB (games include Civ V, WoW, Homefront, Planetfall 2), though I would recommend 8GB. 16GB is a waste of money for 99% of users.

My iMac has 12GB. With 12GB, I can run my iMac in native OS X with VM sessions of Win 7 with Visual Studio 2008, Solaris x64, and Windows Server 2008 with SQL Server 2008 at the same time - and I don't have memory issues. The reason I do all of that is to simulate a production environment for development, so if you don't have such a need you probably don't need that much RAM.

 

[grimpr]

Go 16gb, its cheap and it gets used by the Windows & Linux's memory manager which uses unused ram for caching, you'll have a more responsive and fast system that wont kneel down easily.