How Much Ram?

[Chewy]

Well the sweet spot seems to have shifted to 512 megs sticks, sweet spot is the best price per meg!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145452

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145450

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145575

Now you can't expect to use 4 sticks and dual channel be as fast!
I can barely see the benefit of a gig, when it's only 40% more than 512,
sure why not. Course I don't game, but just want the fastest computer I can build and afford. Don't think I will try 3 instances of photoshop, do a full encode and play any games at the same time.


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[Furiousg]

Dang thats cheap.
I made the mistake of getting a Dell 8200 a few years ago. Actually overall it has been a superb PC, but upgrading has become troublesome as I would like to upgrade RAM also. But seeing as the 8200 runs PC800 RDRam, I am looking at $300 or more for 2 more sticks of 256. I havent been able to find a decent price to justify the upgrade.
My wife does a lot of Adobe work, and myself now backing up my DVD's, it would be nice to have a few more megs behind it all.

[LT. Columbo]

i am looking to buy some more ram ( i have 512) to make this thing faster---what should i expect to pay, and any advice?

[photo_angel2004]

I does amaze me how they charge so much more for the 1 or 2 gig sticks. I guess if you need more then a gig or 2 you are simply stuc paying for the larger ones. If you do not need that much ram go with the smaller ones for less money.

[Zero G]

My old PIII is running on 384. I need a new machine with lots of ram in it.

[Chewy]

newegg/ups durn fast/ ordered sun nite delivery tues 3:10pm

test

[Zero G]

That was fast! So you went for the 512's or the gig's?

[NightTran]

If I add more external burners and external Hard drives. let say 2 or 3 external burner and another hard drive. Do I need more Ram, or How do I keep my performent stay where it was and not get slower?

Thanks

[Chewy]

That was fast! So you went for the 512's or the gig's?

512's, now after 5-6 trips into bios, will bench, got a funny feeling it's gonna be slower, but then i ordered it for my son the gamer, his birthday is in july

[Furiousg]

My birthday is July too, and I would also like some RAM.

Thank you.



What do you use to bench?? Just run prog's that you have timed from before?? Or run a separate tool??

[Chewy]

I have a standard shrink bench, 70% transcode that usually takes 9-10 minutes, 2hr 20 min movie no da no aec

real world bench that doesn't take too long

[Zero G]

So how did they fair, or have you benched yet?

[Furiousg]

Well lets see some results ! ! I would have to believe it should improve, maybe not dramatically, but a noticeably shorter run.

hmm, quick question.
What is the difference between transcode and encode ? ?

[Chewy]

it's slower with a gig than 512, the new ram won't run as fast.

9:15 before 10:05 after


that's ok I need to set up a graphics computer to run adobe and corel

[NightTran]

it's slower with a gig than 512, the new ram won't run as fast.

9:15 before 10:05 after


that's ok I need to set up a graphics computer to run adobe and corel

would you explain more ?

Thanks