If the system was for me, the 16GB. I bang my head against my 8GB limit all day long, but I am a hardcore multitasker. If I was building a system for a friend who wanted to game where speed was more of a priority than multitasking, definitely the 8GB.
RD has some hand-picked stuff from a few companies they use to tweak the ROG BIOS' for the profiles and max memory speed I don't need any memory thankfully!
There was a BT article when Sandy Bridge released about ram. Faster ram made little difference. I would go with 16GB seeing as Win7 would actually use most of it with superfetch. Sent from Bittech Android app
True, but IB has a bigger GPU, which might use more memory bandwidth. Also SB higher memory speeds were 2133, but this is 2400+, which is a ~13% margin.
The avatar say's it all really "FILL IN ALL THE SLOT'S". but 8gb is plenty unless your editing photo and video...
16gb for me, Lightwave 3D is one hungry mother, it needs all the RAM it can get for anything even remotely shader heavy.
I can't see myself using the built in GPU, except for a HTC, in which case I don't need super fast RAM. Still, I guess it's only dual channel ...
Well I have noticed with mine that the closest I come to using the 8gb of ram I have in mine is when I am converting a video, and that only happen's once it reaches 99% of the video being converted. If I go for Ivy Bridge or decide to go for Sandy Bridge E, I will still only be using 8gb for Ivy Bridge or 16gb for Sandy Bridge E as I will just get 2 8gb kits.
12GBs and for general usage it hasn't been too bad. Admittedly it's at 1333 but that's because the 4GB sticks are 1600 and I got the 8GB sticks for cheap. Most I've used in general usage is about 4GB. Most with other usage? Give or take 6-7GB. So it is quite useful.
Going from 8 to 16 made a noticeable difference for me. Just on the windows desktop alone. Faster, snappier.
16GB for me. But then, can't you get 8GBx2 @ 2400Mhz ? And if that then why not "FILL IN ALL THE SLOTS" as people say and just get 8GBx4? But what do I know - bigger numbers, POWERRRRRR! etc. etc. to me. lol
16 gb cause it would give me more E-peeen... and the fact that 2400mhz just sounds like a B$%% to get stable....
Well I've never owned AMD but I have now added this to the list of reasons why I must never...................................... This will be reason number 768.
