Athlon X2 6000+ ram upgrade?

hey guys, ive got a nice shiny new Gigabyte AM2+ mobo and 4870X2 on order
and am using Vista 64bit with PC2-6400 4 GiB of ram and a Athlon X2 6000+,
ive been wondering if i should look at uping that to PC2-1066 16 GiB or so.
With vista taking up so much ram, im worried that as soon as i get back into
video converting/editing and heavy gaming having less might serve as a
seriously bad thing. Anyone have any exp here? and yes i have pushed this
thing to using all its ram on 32bit xp, thats why im asking

Alex wrote:
hey guys, ive got a nice shiny new Gigabyte AM2+ mobo and 4870X2 on
order and am using Vista 64bit with PC2-6400 4 GiB of ram and a Athlon
X2 6000+, ive been wondering if i should look at uping that to PC2-1066
16 GiB or so. With vista taking up so much ram, im worried that as soon
as i get back into video converting/editing and heavy gaming having less
might serve as a seriously bad thing. Anyone have any exp here? and yes
i have pushed this thing to using all its ram on 32bit xp, thats why im
asking
16GB seems alittle excessive, 8GB would be fine and a hell of a lot
cheaper too.

Richard P wrote:
Alex wrote:
hey guys, ive got a nice shiny new Gigabyte AM2+ mobo and 4870X2 on
order and am using Vista 64bit with PC2-6400 4 GiB of ram and a Athlon
X2 6000+, ive been wondering if i should look at uping that to
PC2-1066 16 GiB or so. With vista taking up so much ram, im worried
that as soon as i get back into video converting/editing and heavy
gaming having less might serve as a seriously bad thing. Anyone have
any exp here? and yes i have pushed this thing to using all its ram on
32bit xp, thats why im asking
16GB seems alittle excessive, 8GB would be fine and a hell of a lot
cheaper too.

Like beauty and wealth, there is no such thing as too much memory.

RAM is cheap, as is disk space.

And it will help the economy.

Cheers!

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Jim Beard writes:
16GB seems alittle excessive, 8GB would be fine and a hell of a lot
cheaper too.

Like beauty and wealth, there is no such thing as too much memory.

RAM is cheap, as is disk space.

There seem to be sharp knees in the price/capacity curves for RAM at
various points though, and most motherboards only have a limited number
of simm slots.

The last time I looked, 2gb sticks seemed to be available in huge
numbers and fairly cheap (and 2gb x 4 slots = 8gb); while there were 4gb
sticks around, they were a lot more than 2 times the cost of a 2gb...

-Miles

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Yea, even with the discount i get at the comp shop i work at its fairly
expensive. Probably end up with 8 lol anywho tyall 4 ur comments XD

"Miles Bader" wrote in message
...
Jim Beard writes:

There seem to be sharp knees in the price/capacity curves for RAM at
various points though, and most motherboards only have a limited number
of simm slots.

The last time I looked, 2gb sticks seemed to be available in huge
numbers and fairly cheap (and 2gb x 4 slots = 8gb); while there were 4gb
sticks around, they were a lot more than 2 times the cost of a 2gb...

-Miles

--
Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.