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Building a new machine
boien
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20. August 2008 @ 22:37 Link to this message
Looking to spend 700.00$ on /motherboard/memory/CPU
ram max, but ill just be using 8GB for the time being
ATX motherboard will do, something modern of course, plenty of SATA slots, and PCI-E ( i hear pci-e 2 is out now ? )
usb and other stuff.
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spamual
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20. August 2008 @ 23:32 Link to this message
will any of the programs you want to use, use 8GB of ram ?
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21. August 2008 @ 05:34 Link to this message
16GB max RAM ? Hmm, are you sure you'll ever need that?
skye09
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21. August 2008 @ 06:48 Link to this message
IIRC, having too much ram is actually bad for your system, not that it will hurt it but it will decrease performace.
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21. August 2008 @ 07:35 Link to this message
It will decrease your maximum potential overclock, but it won't decrease performance, not on a decent chipset like P45/X48 anyway.
boien
Junior Member
21. August 2008 @ 23:55 Link to this message
well it looks like most motherboards out nowadays now support 16GB of ram ( 4 slots of 4gb ddr ) sot ahts waht i was aiming for.
dragnandy
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22. August 2008 @ 01:47 Link to this message
4gb of ram should be more than enough for todays uses. 16gb seems to be a waste of money, honestly.
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spamual
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22. August 2008 @ 02:15 Link to this message
only P45s support 16gb ram
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