help with good 32gb of ram

jimbo45 said:

Thornton said:

DeaconFrost said:

I can answer that. The only problem is that you are trying to hold your computer to the rules of Windows XP...when they don't apply anymore. Once you understand how Windows 7 uses memory, you'll see that you most likely have no issue at all and don't need more memory.

thank you for filling me in. it is good to know. still 32gb is rather important when you are live editing clips of data WHILE its caching, youl find the more you have, the more it can cache , in which case as you edit, more will free up, if you do not have enough, you will be editing as much as you are caching, slowing down your machine.

programs like mentalray take a SUDDEN hard hit on your ram then halt.

programs like lux render use a lot for a long time, as much as a week at once.

programs like maya and inventor fall in the same catagory of working while you are caching. when you have 3.9 million faces it has to prebuffer on you screen, only so much can be done on your graphics card.

and if you have a problem and need yo look somthing up while you are doing all this... your SOL.

there are three parts to this.

i NEED about 20gb of ram for rendering

i WANT allot of space left over

i LIKE to go a little over kill to partially future proof my machine should my other components upgrade and demand more

if i can find a way to fit 24gb of ram over 4 dims i will considder that, especially if it is less expensive. still, over kill is good in the media/communications industry.

Hi there
I'd suggest for Rendering etc you'd probably be BETTER off with a decent GPU which offloads this stuff from the processor.

VM's tend to EAT RAM for breakfast but unless you are running a Huge server operation and want several dozen VM's up at once 16 GB RAM on a Home computer is probably more than enough with a decent GPU, a good processor such as an Intel I7 and an SSD.

If you feel you want 32 GB -- fine it's your choice but IMO you might get better value for money in looking at a GPU, a decent processor and an SSD.

Gaming BTW doesn't actually need loads of RAM -- fast Video processing and Disk I/O is more important.

Cheers
jimbo

i agree, and disagree.

i am running a 6970, much more power than one would assume i need, the 3d applications dont utilize more than 80% of my gpu at any givin time, and look to the ram.

as for gaming, especially bf3, you see a larger performance increase from the ram and cpu than gpu. i found this out from overclocking.

and like i said, i could go for 24gb of ram, i just have no clue how to do it in 4 dims

ok, so i figure, because im taking most of the parts from my old build here and am going to make a rendering server to help render faster... i MIGHT be able to get away with less, but i will say, i want faster ram.

people have told me that 1866 ram isnt REALLY as fast as it says it is, then the comment gets a little confusing, stuff about it just having a higher voltage to simulate a faster transfer rate.

im curious to know if buying 16gb of 1866 is going to be a big improvment (speed wise ) from 1600.

Thornton said:

ok, so i figure, because im taking most of the parts from my old build here and am going to make a rendering server to help render faster... i MIGHT be able to get away with less, but i will say, i want faster ram.

people have told me that 1866 ram isnt REALLY as fast as it says it is, then the comment gets a little confusing, stuff about it just having a higher voltage to simulate a faster transfer rate.

im curious to know if buying 16gb of 1866 is going to be a big improvment (speed wise ) from 1600.

Newegg.com - G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-14900CL9Q-16GBXL

also, this ram says it is design for the p67 north bridge by intel, the new mobo im looking at is a p77, does that mean the ram is going to take a performance hit? if not, does that mean their would be better ram to use that may work faster on a p77?

better yet, the mobo im looking at supports 2133 ram. if i can REALLY utilize this speed of ram, i wouldnt mind picking up to packs of ths...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231468

Thornton said:

Thornton said:

ok, so i figure, because im taking most of the parts from my old build here and am going to make a rendering server to help render faster... i MIGHT be able to get away with less, but i will say, i want faster ram.

people have told me that 1866 ram isnt REALLY as fast as it says it is, then the comment gets a little confusing, stuff about it just having a higher voltage to simulate a faster transfer rate.

im curious to know if buying 16gb of 1866 is going to be a big improvment (speed wise ) from 1600.

Newegg.com - G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-14900CL9Q-16GBXL

also, this ram says it is design for the p67 north bridge by intel, the new mobo im looking at is a p77, does that mean the ram is going to take a performance hit? if not, does that mean their would be better ram to use that may work faster on a p77?

better yet, the mobo im looking at supports 2133 ram. if i can REALLY utilize this speed of ram, i wouldnt mind picking up to packs of ths...

Newegg.com - G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) Desktop Memory Model F3-17000CL11D-8GBXL

been doing some research, sonds like the real problem isnt that they are overclocked, rather that the bios of even machines that support that much ram will not recognize it. sounds like a flick of a switch in the bios can fix this too my understanding on most boards, and it may then bu unstable, in which case it may require cpu voltage manipulation to regain a stable setup.

essenbe said:

That's the ram I was using. Only 8GB with a 6950. It never came close to maxing my ram or GPU. I can play BF3 all day long and it won't use 50%.

im happy its that simple for you lol

I'd be very interested to see what exactly is running when you say BF3 is using 95% of your 10 gigs of ram.

When I am running BF3, my memory usage never goes over 50%. Besides a fully functional 7 x64 OS, I am running;
Nvidia CC
Nvidia display driver
TS3
Procon
XFire
Origin
Firefox
Fraps
Logitech gaming center
Logitech profiler
MSE
Afterburner
CoreTemp
SpeedFan


And you can see my system specs below, I run the game on auto and avg 60fps.

James7679 said:

I'd be very interested to see what exactly is running when you say BF3 is using 95% of your 10 gigs of ram.

When I am running BF3, my memory usage never goes over 50%. Besides a fully functional 7 x64 OS, I am running;
Nvidia CC
Nvidia display driver
TS3
Procon
XFire
Origin
Firefox
Fraps
Logitech gaming center
Logitech profiler
MSE
Afterburner
CoreTemp
SpeedFan


And you can see my system specs below, I run the game on auto and avg 60fps.

nothing changes, except origin suddenly starts using more ram, and bf3 fluctuates between 3gb and 5gb. between the two i max around 95% ram, to me, with 10 gb, its way to high to have even 6gb