Diffrence between Windows 7 Ultimate prices

Rick99 said:

Well, I want to put the most I can in it. I just don't know how to tell the maximum ram I can put in it.

I'm not trying to be rude, but this is just silly. So, if you get a motherboard that supports 32GB of RAM, you might be inclined to put in 32GB of RAM even though you might not ever have a genuine need for more than 4GB of RAM, is that what you are saying?

My mobo supoprts 16GB of RAM. I currently have 8 GB of RAM. 95% of the time, I am just fine with 4GB of RAM. Only when I run 2+ VM's at the same time am I ever in the timeframe when I need more than 4GB of RAM, but not more than 8. With 16GB of RAM, I could run 6-8 virtual machines all at the same time each with 1GB of RAM and have plenty of RAM.

Unless you need more than 4GB of RAM, you won't ever see a performance increase by having it. Lots of people buy RAM today because it's cheap and thinking they might need it soon. But 4GB of RAM was fairly norm 4-5 years ago and it's still popular now with 8GB of RAM still being more than enough. I don't forsee the average person on a PC needing more than 16GB of RAM for another 8+ years.

True, I probably won't need that much ram I may buy some of it then upgrade if it ever gets slow. But that will be awhile with that computer.

Well the thing is I just want to spend pretty close to 3k and not much more. Those are VERY nice motherboards I just don't think I want to pay much more than 3k for my PC.

Haha I didn't notice that you were being sarcastic and no i'm not being sarcastic.

The thing is, if you buy a $1,200 computer today, or a $3,000 computer today, in 5 years time, both are going to be outdated and outperformed by a middle of the road computer. Spending extra today is no guarantee that your computer is going to be king of the hill for a longer period of time. If you don't believe me, ask the people who spend $1,200 on a Core 2 quad Extreme CPU about 3 years ago, and see if these same people aren't being outperformed by the new Ivy Bridge Core i5's and i7's.

I know that technology advances quickly, but in five years I will most likely be able to upgrade my parts, unless they invent a new socket and don't make any more of the LGA sockets. That may happen, but if you build a PC then you'll have the same problem of it being outdated in 5 years. That problem never ends at any time, as you may know.

I think I want to put around 32GB will that work?