Huge use, Battlefield 3 ultra at 1080p used my old 4gb at max. So i say yes, it's time to go 6 or 8gb for gaming. Higher then 8gb only if you run virtual machines or other software that utilize huge amount of memory.
8GB is like £10 more expensive than 4GB these days. I'd say 8GB is the standard when building a new PC.
well if you play games like 2moons, then yes, absolutey, you can have like 15-20 clients running in the background while your charc or should I say, mules(backup charcs for storage,money,etc), sitting down. Cause you can only sell so much at one given time, you can many have clients as long as your ram can sustain it, I even looked at the cpu usage and it seems perfectly fine, its the ram. I have gotten one time, full 6gb just about, eaten. had like well over 10 clients running in the background cause all of my charcs were under sell mode. I dont go on the game that much, been awhile, good game though. You can go higher ram if you want if your using stuff like ramdisk plus and such.
Can i highjack this thread? I don't want to create new thread for one (not so important question). Anyway, as explained in this thread (first page) I've done some testing with some Kingston and NoName memory (and also with mine), only to findout that all of them are unstable on every speed except 800Mhz (400), all rated at 1333Mhz. That make me interested, and few hours ago started to play with Voltage. Long story short, RAM on this PC I'm typing now works at 1333Mhz 1.9V rock stable, and to my surprise it's not hot, it's almost cold ??? Did read somewhere that old modules are made to work at 1.9V-2.0V, so, i assume this module is 1.9V or 2.0V. Is it possible that they use old modules and sell them as new 1.5V but they are in fact 1.9V or more? Because of Intel? Also, to ask (who have 1.5V modules) do they get hot at 1.65V?
I don't think so, maybe on intel CPU's (newer generation i7 i5 i3 etc) but someone correct me if I'm wrong?
You're going to fry either the IMC or the RAM sticks. DDR3 is only rated up to 1.65V. Only DDR1 was rated at 2.0V. DDR2 is rated at 1.8V with a max of 1.9V. You're really pushing your CPU and RAM at this point, I'm surprised it's even booting. deltatux
Are you sure about that? Not only booting, but it works even better then on 1.5V, maybe IMC on Intel only have problem with that?
JEDEC specified that DDR3 should only operate up to 1.65V, they're designed to follow JEDEC standards. Intel's IMC usually are only rated up to 1.6V, heck Ivy Bridge can't go stable with even 1.6V (my RAM is rated for 1.6V), had to keep it around 1.5V as the JEDEC standard voltage for DDR3 is 1.5V. deltatux
Ok, thanks. I will get it down at 1.65V just in case, and wait for more response (if any) to see what other think. I've read somewhere that older modules are made to work at 1.9V-2.0V, but idk to be honest.
I back up what deltatux said, 1.9v-2.0v was ddr2, drr3 is rated at 1.5v-1.65v. Maybe you have a faulty memory chip, cause my Corsair runs rock solid at 1.5v@1600mhz with 9-9-9-24 1T.
Wasn't ddr1 like 2.5-2.6v? I remember burning my ddr1 bh5 ram in at like 3.8v overnight on my old s939 rig in 2006 to bring out its overclocking potential =\
Thanks guys, i find out something interesting. "at AMD its no limit for voltage RAMs, u can use 1.4V modules or to 2V modules. Example A-Data 2000X can up 2.1 V in specification, yes, this is crazy for warm etc, i using 1.6V and 1700 MHz cl 7. Its balanced for me." Here is a link http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums...7-Amd-Phenom-athlon-ii-ddr3-imc-voltage-limit So if module is safe at 2.0V, it should be no problem for CPU? I did 1.9V and it works great, no heat issue on modules.