Athlon X2 6000+ ram upgrade?

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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 said:
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
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16GB seems alittle excessive, 8GB would be fine and a hell of a lot
cheaper too.
 
Jim Beard said:
Like beauty and wealth, there is no such thing as too much memory.

RAM is cheap, as is disk space.
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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
 
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
 
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