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After procrastinating for ages and eventually being forced to upgrade due to my old PSU being struck by lightning I got the following:

MSI P55-GD65 mobo
Intel Core i5 750
4GB OCZ DDR3-1333MHZ RAM
Corsair VX450W

My HDDs and other stuff were fine so I'm still using those.

Dunno if I should go for 8GB RAM or not..
 
labratza said:
if you are going to run windows 7 then go for 8gb ram it is really worth it
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Can you really tell the difference?

SharkBait said:
What did you have? This should last you a while. Now, get a Corsair H50-1 and OC. :D
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I had an old dinosaur from '04:

Athlon 64 3200+
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum mobo
1GB DDR400 RAM
PSU that sounded like an Airbis A380
 
Don't get more RAM unless you need to. Check your task manager for peak commit charge - if it is less than your physical RAM then you will see no benefit in buying more.
 
feo said:
After procrastinating for ages and eventually being forced to upgrade due to my old PSU being struck by lightning I got the following:

MSI P55-GD65 mobo
Intel Core i5 750
4GB OCZ DDR3-1333MHZ RAM
Corsair VX450W

My HDDs and other stuff were fine so I'm still using those.

Dunno if I should go for 8GB RAM or not..
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The more ram the merrier. You will not be sorry. Specially if you some time in future run Virtual machine + software.
 
It's only useful having more than 4GB RAM (3.2GB acutally) if you are running a 64bit operating system. If I was running a 64bit OS, I would definitely go for 8GB.

Then I could run my bloated Outlook 2007 profile, together with Visual Studio, Photoshop, Illustrator, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, IE, Safari, Word, uTorrent, and anything else, without having to wait for the OS to swap stuff in and out of memory/hard drive as I switch between programs.

I'm a Software/Web Developer, and you can NEVER have too much RAM, or run too many programs concurrently. If you can afford it, then go for it!
 
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ToxicWazte said:
It's only really useful having more than 4GB RAM if you are running a 64bit operating system. If I was running a 64bit OS, I would definitely go for 8GB.

Then I could run my bloated Outlook 2007 profile, together with Visual Studio, Photoshop, Illustrator, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, IE, Safari, Word, uTorrent, and anything else, without having to wait for the OS to swap stuff in and out of memory/hard drive as I switch between programs.

I'm a Software/Web Developer, and you can NEVER have too much RAM, or run too many programs concurrently. If you can afford it, then go for it!
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I agree and RAM is still so damn cheap. I few years back... nevermind i want to cry just thinking about it!
 
It's all down to usage... if you don't use it (win7 is much lighter than vista on RAM, and you haven't indicated how heavy ur usage is), then it's about as useful as putting the equivalent amount of cash in a bag and leaving that in ur box (only the cash will be more useful when u need to buy lunch)... u'll see the same effect.

EDIT: penguin does raise a good point... RAM is dirt cheap these days.
 
If it's cheap to go from the 4GB RAM to 8GB, why not? Rather have it than not, you don't know all your requirements for the future.
 
Randhir said:
If it's cheap to go from the 4GB RAM to 8GB, why not? Rather have it than not, you don't know all your requirements for the future.
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Depends on his Mobo and ram setup. Its sometimes better to have 2/3 ram modules in pairs/tri groups to get the full speed/technology value.
 
+1 on the 64-bit Win7. I idle on about 1.5GB or slightly more running just about nothing. Run VS2008, photoshop, transcoding app or large postgresql db and it tapes 4GB without a problem. Need to get another 4GB I reckon... just waiting for SilverLight to confirm the 2x2GB kit at Sybaritic is for real. :D
 
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