Need more Ram?

[Mephisto]

I just use my PC to play games,I run Windows 7 with 4gb, is it worthwhile to upgrade to 6gb and 64bit windows?

[Noxvayl]

If you aren't using a 64bit version of Windows you won't be using all 4Gb of RAM you have installed. 32bit operating systems can't address 4Gb of memory so you should really be using 64bit Windows now.

Upgrading your RAM depends on your machine, I wouldn't recommend getting more DDR2 RAM. It's quite expensive in comparison to DDR3 and is probably better to wait until you get a new motherboard and CPU to get a better memory deal.

The most common setup now uses Dual Channel DDR3 memory, in which case you be looking at these: http://www.scan.co.uk/shop/computer-...nnel-(1600mhz)

[Pob255]

Yep as ExHal said, depends on the rest of the pc and what ram it is.
Also depends on what you do with it, for the majority of uses 4gb is plenty (although you cannot use all 4gb on a 32bit OS)

[khan4youuk]

if you planning to use 64 bit then 6 gb is good otherwise no use if using 32 bit

[Zak33]

I've tried 4 and 8 and 16 gig recently.

In almost everything 4gig was perfectly fine and dandy.

8 made a small difference when I was encoding films where the software allowed me to choose a mammoth amount of cached data but only cos it unspooled from the source disc in one hit. Tbh it was irrelevent.

If you use a Quad core for a lot of stuff all at once then read on. I have found 8 gig very useful with mammoth amounts of excel documents open, along with power point and word, plus browser (multiple tabs on firefox) and Paintshop Pro as well as Windows Movie Maker.

However... getting an SSD made the largest whopping difference.

So.. put your dough away and save for an SSD for your Operating System

[shaithis]

Well, he says he mainly uses the PC to play games......to me that means an SSD is near the bottom of the list.....but then so is RAM past 4GB.

I am sure that will all change at some point though.

As for 64bit Windows.....as far as I am concerned, there is no 32bit Windows 7!!!

[Sputnik]

in which case you be looking at these: http://www.scan.co.uk/shop/computer-...annel-(1600mhz)

I thought there was not any advantage of getting anything quicker that 1600mhz?

[Noxvayl]

The link was meant to show 1600Mhz and 1800Mhz+, but somehow I managed to get the close bracket out of the link so it didn't load the 1600Mhz models as well

I wouldn't recommend buying slower models because they offer less value than the 1600Mhz models but the higher clocked ones give better overclocking flexibility, at least with the LGA2011 Intel CPU's and AMD CPU's.