Mazty said:
8gn is big enough, but depends on speed and latancy. Basically 8gb of 1066Mhz 9-9-9-28 is going to suck, but 8gb of 1800 7-7-7-21 is going to be much better. I've 4gb of 1066Mhz 5-5-5-15 and that does the job fine. |
Not necessarily true. For games, you may see a tiny imperceptible performance increase from RAM with better timings, but for the most part it doesn't matter. 4 GB of the cheapest DDR3-1333 you can find will run every modern game at max settings, provided you have the hardware to back it up. Where gaming hardware is concerned, the concern over RAM timing and latency mostly comes from number-fetishists who don't bother to understand what those numbers mean.
That said, you will need to bother with all those numbers if you're doing something RAM-intensive (scientific modeling, graphical or game design, and so on). But that probably doesn't apply to most of you reading this thread.
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