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Old May 15th 15, 01:29 PM posted to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte
(PeteCresswell)
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Default Z87X-UD4H-CF: Mix Memory Sizes?

Per Paul:
And are you absolutely sure you need the memory ?
Did you check for "peak usage" on the machine,
and decide you regularly go over 8GB ?


"Absolutely" is too strong a word, but when I open up a utility called
Process Lasso, it shows a "RAM Load" graph that is regularly pegged.

This is my 24-7 machine that acts as a IP camera server and a media
server. Since adding a couple more IP cams, the memory has gone up
significantly.

Do I need 24 gigs? Absolutely not..... 16, yes... 24, no.

But I was thinking along the lines of "What if I do need more than 16
sometime later, do I want to be stuck with throwing away a couple of
perfectly-good 4-gig memory modules?".

OTOH, installing 8 gigs of memory that I don't need could be construed
as throwing it away....

So, question/answers aside, I will probably stick with putting another 8
gigs instead of 16 in there.
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Pete Cresswell