I have an i7 2600K Sandy bridge chip with 8GB of RAM. I've just installed two 680 GTX cards in SLI and every now and then my games are crashing because I am running out of RAM. I am using Windows 8.1 with an SSD so windows turns off page file by default. Seeing as I am going to 16GB I have been looking at the Corsair Vengeance low profile RAM, it has to be the low profile stuff to get under my CPU cooler. I have been looking at RAM that runs at over 2000MHz but will I get any appreciable increase in performance from the speed increase as the timings are a little looser then the bog standard 1600MHz stuff.
No. Verbose version: No, go read http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/memory/2011/01/11/the-best-memory-for-sandy-bridge/1 .
Yes it does, but only to help with overclocking limits. your maxing 8GB? in what games? BF4 has a known memory leak issue thats hopefully will get fixed in the coming patch.
I've had it crash on Crysis 2 and Batman Arkam Origins. My system uses around 1.5GB before I've opened anything and I don't have a massive amount of programs installed either.
Not with S1155 platforms. On those you are not supposed to touch base clock (100MHz) and even if you do, anything above 105MHz is asking for trouble and instability. After that memory and CPU clock has totally separate multipliers, so no, RAM has absolutely no effect on overclocking limits on S1155 platform. And as the OP can see in the benchmarks, it has no performance effect either - the only ones which are bit behind are DDR3-1333. Performance differences of DDR3-1600 and above are within margin of error.
It's definitely maxing out the RAM because I've had task manager open and I can see the RAM maxed out and when the games closes it down to the usual 1.5 - 2GB it usually uses
I'm with the other guys, I'm assuming there's another issue causing it, since no current game should be using 6gb of RAM (that I'm aware of at least!) To the original question you won't be much of an improvement for general use I'm afraid.
Well that's good to know about the RAM I might as well just get some 1600MHz stuff. I'll take a screen grab when I get home. I don't always have the problem of games crashing but it has happened to me more than once.
I'm running 16Gb of ram, and rarely see my ram usage go above 8Gb unless I am working on Photoshop or converting a video. When playing Battlefield 4 I am using around 4.5Gb total, Ghosts is around 6.5Gb but the most that I have see a single game use is around 2.8Gb and that was Battlefield 4.
My story: Bought fastest RAM modules money could buy 3 years ago (Dominator GT 2000 MHz). Ran 6GB kit (3x2GB) for a couple of years at 1900MHz with silly fast performance and a great CPU overclock to go along with it. Bought another identical kit, ran 12GB (6x2GB) in one board, could only run them stably at 1600 MHz. Moral of the story? Don't buy the fastest RAM just for faster performance, it's mainly for bragging rights and e-peen conscious benchmark competitors. The difference in performance between 1600 MHz modules and something higher is negligible unless you need that extra headroom for overclocking your CPU.
If your using an AMD APU fast ram modules are worth it. Overwise 1600mhz is more than enough anything above is not really useful outside of benchmark land. 1333mhz is still more than fast enough for just a gaming machine if thats all its going to be use for enough price dif between 1333 and 1600 is close to 0 so its rather mute point. Only real use is if using wierd multis that wont go into 1600 correctly.
Unless you have quite a few other programmes open whilst gaming, there's no way you can can be pushing 8GB. What PSU are you using? I have a feeling you're overloading it.
It does ? that's news to me. I thought Microsoft recommended not to disable the pagefile as it can lead to problems
It is definitely running out of RAM I am get an error message telling me it's out of RAM and I have seen it maxed out
