8gb on the mb and 8gb on my 480. Works ok for my gaming until I upgrade to Zen.
8gb on the mb and 8gb on my 480. Works ok for my gaming until I upgrade to Zen.
I am using 128GB (Corsair Platinum DDR4)
Sadly only 8GB. Never had the need for more just yet. Maybe on my next Mobo / CPU combo
8GB- enough given the limitations of my A10 processor for gaming. That was the best 'bang for buck' option when I built this rig and couldn't afford a discrete GPU of any worth. Now have an EVGA 960 GTX 4GB GPU, so when funds allow will rebuild the rig with a better CPU/mobo, and faster RAM (although not necessarily more than 8GB).
32gb DDR4 2400 X99 build
Complete overkill for gaming rig with some odd photoshop tinkering, But always been in the mindset where I never have to worry about not enough.
Last X79 build had 32gb DDR3 1866, Probably just stick with 32gb in every new build from now on.
32GB, which might seem unnecessary except I do a lot of multichannel work with high-sample-rate 24-bit audio, and also large scale multi-layered Photoshop work. I might not really need 32GB, but 16GB wasn't going to be a wise choice.
For speed, I wasn't going to pay over the odds because I haven't seen a review for any DDR4 RAM that makes a case for high speed RAM. I was able to get a bargain on Corsair Vengeance 2666MHz for the same money as the cheapest DDR4 I could find, so I took it, but I know that I would have exactly the same experience with RAM of a speed rank above or below.
Only using a NUC at the moment and it has 32GB.
I used to use a ramdrive program a lot (particularly before we got SSD's), so I always had a lot of RAM.
When I had 16GB in the NUC, it used always be getting close to maxing out when I was doing research. Sometimes even did when I would have 2 or more bowser windows open (sometimes up to 10 or more) with lots of tabs open in all of them (each browser a specific topic and sometimes over 50 tabs open on each topic) plus several other programs going all at once. I tend to keep referring back and forward between pages, et cetera, so it is easier to have evrything open and easy to access. Even right now I have used 12.4GB of my 32GB RAM and I am not doing much.
Too much, Corsair CMK32GX4M4A2800C16 Vengeance LPX 32 GB. I don't need that much, much the same for the rest of my PC, it's OTT. I don't do gaming, graphics or other such things, I just like building PC's. I think it's time to dismantle my rig , sell off the components and start all over again with something a little more realistic. May have to post a big "For Sale" sign for the following:-Intel Core i7 6700K; Noctua NH-U14S CPU Cooler; AsRock Z170 Extreme7+; Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 Gaming; 2 x Samsung 950 PRO NVMe M.2 512 GB; BeQuiet 850 W Dark Pro 11 PSU; ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q; Creative Soundblaster ZxR; Thermaltake Core V71 and of course the Corsair CMK32GX4M4A2800C16 Vengeance LPX 32 GB. I'll keep the Logitech 2.1 Speaker System Z623 and a few other bits and pieces. All I ever do is stream music and films, emails and the like together with my university studies ( languages). No I'm not a young student with more money than sense, I'm an old man, mature student working full time, shift work, with time on his hands. Any suggestions for a new system, more suited to my needs, budget circa £1500. I'd be interested to hear them.
I got bitten in the butt by the "upgrade later" mentality twice (with DDR and DDR2).
"I'll just get 2x1GB DDR2-800 for now.. If I ever need more I can still stick 2 more sticks in later"
[... fast forward a year or two or three ...]
"crap.. the same RAM now costs double or thrice of what I initially paid for it.. no upgrade for me then "
Similar story over a decade back with DDR1 in my Pentium 4 Northwood (which still exists and works).
When I built my 1155 system I basically said "f.. duck it" and bought 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3-1600 Crucial Ballistix Sport VLP.
In other words: maxed out the RAM so I don't have to worry about upgrades.
8GB DDR2. Will be going for 16GB DDR4 soon though.
32GB, and I'm quite often using over 16GB according to take manager. Only recently upgraded from a 2500k to a R5 3600 and 32GB was so affordable it was an easy choice.
16 gb in my rig now, last one had 32gb. i think 16 is the sweet spot unless you do a lot of editing or its a workstation and your doing cad or 3d work then pile it in! with a massive cored processor.
Corsair VENGEANCE LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 DRAM 3600MHz C18 AMD Ryzen Memory Kit CMK32GX4M2Z3600C18
Last edited by Chris Mahon; 02-11-2020 at 02:19 AM. Reason: Put in the incorrect kit code.
12GB and that's enough for most of daily tasks
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