8GB OR 16GB? Please help!

Axzevos · Jul 22, 2013

So yeah. I was wondring if I should save 70 dollars and go for 8gb 1866mhz or 16gb 1600mhz. So the question is. If I'am gonna render on one screen and play at the same time on the other will the 16gb ram give me higher fps? I will just render gameplays/commenteries

System:

Case: CM storm stryker Gaming Big Tower
PSU: XFX ProSeries Core Edition 850W PSU
Processor: Intel core i5 4670k
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming, Socket-1150
Watercooling: Cooler Master Seidon 120M
Ram: Kingston DDR3 HyperX Beast 8GB 1866MHz
Graphic cards: x2 Gainward GeForce GTX 770 2GB PhysX CUDA
SSD: Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB
HDD: WD Desktop Blue 1TB SATA

Keyboard: CM Storm quickfire tk brown

Monitor: ASUS VG248QE 24-Inch

Azrael47 · Jul 22, 2013

If you have the money 16GB, futureproof for next gen games. However 8GB is more than enough for rendering.

JackNaylorPE · Jul 22, 2013

More RAM, faster RAM and lower CAS is always .... yes without exception ..... better. The question is "What is the ROI ?" (return on investment). In other words, is the improvement you get worth the price you pay ? Sometimes the improvement you get is not observable w/o a benchmark. Other times, it certainly is.....even in gaming. Rendering however eats RAM, and if as you indicate you will be gaming at same time, the disk thrashing would be noticeable

However, the the investment in more / faster / lower CAS RAM should be matched by the other components. You have killer Monitor and GFX but if I was doing 16GB, I'd also be:

1. Using a 4770k for the rendering
2. Upgrading to the GD65 (Bargain at its price for what is probably the best bang for buck MoBo on the market right now).
3. Forget the self contained water cooling if fan noise bothers you.....it produces no better results than air coolers and is too danged loud.
4. With rendering, I'd consider something large and faster like the 3 TB Barracuda 7200.14 .... it's much faster and has $45 /GB versus $70 for the Blue
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/desktop-hdd.15-st4000dm000-4tb,3494-3.html

Axzevos · Jul 23, 2013

JackNaylorPE :

More RAM, faster RAM and lower CAS is always .... yes without exception ..... better. The question is "What is the ROI ?" (return on investment). In other words, is the improvement you get worth the price you pay ? Sometimes the improvement you get is not observable w/o a benchmark. Other times, it certainly is.....even in gaming. Rendering however eats RAM, and if as you indicate you will be gaming at same time, the disk thrashing would be noticeable

However, the the investment in more / faster / lower CAS RAM should be matched by the other components. You have killer Monitor and GFX but if I was doing 16GB, I'd also be:

1. Using a 4770k for the rendering
2. Upgrading to the GD65 (Bargain at its price for what is probably the best bang for buck MoBo on the market right now).
3. Forget the self contained water cooling if fan noise bothers you.....it produces no better results than air coolers and is too danged loud.
4. With rendering, I'd consider something large and faster like the 3 TB Barracuda 7200.14 .... it's much faster and has $45 /GB versus $70 for the Blue
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/desktop-hdd.15-st4000dm000-4tb,3494-3.html

You know all what you said will cost me 400 dollars more? I don't got enough money for that.

Tradesman1 · Jul 23, 2013

If you can swing 16GB, I'd say go for it, will help with rendering, can also use some for a RAMDisk which can speed many things up also, and as programs and games become more memory centric you'll be glad you have it

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