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Title: Worth having 8gb of ram with win 7 64bit?
Post by: Khare on 16 August 2011, 22:30

As title, I've currently got 4gb of corsair XMS3 1600mhz ram in there, but as ram is so cheap I'm tempted to buy another 4gb and have a total of 8gb. However is that overkill or will I notice a big difference in performance?

Title: Re: Worth having 8gb of ram with win 7 64bit?
Post by: Jay on 16 August 2011, 22:45

Best thing to do is use the performance monitoring tool while doing what would normally put the most pressure on your machine and see if you're even using the 4GB.

Some help for the PM on Win7:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?aq=1&oq=performance+moni&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=performance+monitor+windows+7

Title: Re: Worth having 8gb of ram with win 7 64bit?
Post by: Khare on 16 August 2011, 22:49

Cheers Jay. Just looked on performance monitor and says I've got 2.5gb free, so will keep a note of what is used as I go along and decide from there  :smiley:

Title: Re: Worth having 8gb of ram with win 7 64bit?
Post by: Golf_GT_TDI on 16 August 2011, 22:55

I've been running Win7 64-bit for a year now on 4GB ram, only issues I've had is Firefox using a lot of it on occasions, otherwise it runs pretty nice, I'd like to upgrade to 8GB soon though

Title: Re: Worth having 8gb of ram with win 7 64bit?
Post by: Khare on 16 August 2011, 22:56

I use chrome so no memory hogging there I don't think  :undecided:

Title: Re: Worth having 8gb of ram with win 7 64bit?
Post by: Jay on 16 August 2011, 23:00

It's not just the browsers fault, go to a youtube or a radio station site and stream music... any browser will consume loads of memory after a few minutes, flash is a hog!

Title: Re: Worth having 8gb of ram with win 7 64bit?
Post by: AlexMozza on 16 August 2011, 23:02

Ive got 8GB DDR3 XMS3   :cool:  Worth Having, means you will never have to upgrade...well not for a while anyway!

Title: Re: Worth having 8gb of ram with win 7 64bit?
Post by: Ridg on 17 August 2011, 10:42

depends what you do?

I've got 12GB of triple channel, if I'm gaming then RAM usage will stick around 4-5; if I'm editing photos or movies then it can quickly jump upto 10-11.

For gaming 4 is fine, but not that future proof, as a work station you'd really want 8, you'd probably find that adding an SSD would give you more of a noticeable increase than adding more RAM

Title: Re: Worth having 8gb of ram with win 7 64bit?
Post by: Khare on 17 August 2011, 19:03

Hmmm may invest in 4 more gb of ram then, future proof  :smiley: