8GB 1333 RAM Advice?

[Ovazealous]

Hey Guys!
As well as
buying another hard drive as my 1TB disk space is running out:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/268192-32-internal-advice
and
buying a new CPU cooler because my i5 760 is overheating:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/301768-28-damage

...I'm also planning on upgrading my DDR3 RAM as my applications keep crashing and saying that my system is out of memory. At the moment, I have 4GB (2x2) of 1600Mhz G-Skill Ripjaws Gaming RAM.
That was a bit of a weird choice as my processor only uses dual channel 1333mhz Ram anyway, so I'm planning on buying 8GB 1333RAM.

I have three choices, two being i'm happy to buy, and the third being a bit more expensive.
There's 3 brands, PQI, G.Skill-NT and Kingston, all running at 1333, all though I cannot find specific models as MSY doesn't supply that.
I'm leaning towards G.Skill as I already have this brand of RAM.
Any advice on the other brands?

Oh... and I am planning on overclocking my i5 760 - (though I'm not going to OC the RAM, just push the i5 to a 3.6-8Ghz)

 

[Wamphryi]

Its a bit unusual for 4 GB of RAM to be pushed to the limit. Unless you are running a number of memory intensive applications all at the same time I would not assume that jumping to 8 GB will sort the issue.

Two days ago I bought 16 GB of 1333 RAM. The reason why I did this was that 8 GB does not offer any real performance increase but is not a large enough amount to take advantage of RAM drive. I have noticed that Win 7 now uses 2 GB of RAM at idle and being able to use RAM drive has been a real bonus. I can create a RAM drive image that loads at start up and it retains what is installed on it. I have seen write speeds of 383 MB a second. In essence large RAM configurations offer little when used in the traditional manner but with RAM drive you can gain real world performance increases.

 

[baddad]

If your hard drive is almost full this is probably your out of memory problem.
Read this http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2009/06/08/out-of-memory-does-not-refer-to-physical-memory.aspx