Muzman on 14/10/2011 at 00:23
OK, so when building the new machine I didn't pay too much attention too this part.
I got this pair of Strontium 4gig DDR3s because they were cheap but not too cheap, so I thought they'd be alright. But they're 2000mhz, which it turns out is a weird speed no one really supports. (allegedly they can be run at 1833 or whatever it is, but that caused instability. 1600 seems to be happy so far).
Now I want to upgrade to 16gig. If I don't want to clean out and start over, I have to get more of these ones don't I? (just to be on the safe side)
Ladron De La Noche on 14/10/2011 at 09:27
You don't necessarily have to buy the same brand as long as the new ram can run at 1600 along with your other ram modules. Higher frequency modules should clock down to 1600, if they do not then adjust the ram timings in the bios. Buy the same ram modules or buy 2000 ram modules of a differing brand and it should clock down, it should be stable.
Make sure the motherboard can support the voltage of the ram modules, sometimes this is a problem.
RAM is definitely cheap nowadays, very cheap. 16GB of ram?!? Wow!
Muzman on 15/10/2011 at 14:29
Thanks for that.
Yeah, I laughed reading some gaming rig advice recently saying you don't need much more than 4 gig really for that sort of thing. True for most things. In Adobe's After Effects advice forum it's a bit different "Bit slow you say. How much RAM you got?"
"8 gigs"
"Yeah, that's about the minimum you're going to want. 16 is ok. 24, 32? Now you're talking"
:sweat:
Sulphur on 15/10/2011 at 16:35
Video? Sure, hells yeah. HD resolution video editing's quite the thing. You might as well get yourself a modular mini-server cluster and some RAID for contiguous 1 petabyte storage partitions along with that RAM.
lost_soul on 15/10/2011 at 17:47
I went with DDR3 1333 at 9 CL because I got an awesome deal on it. It was $35 for 8 GB (2 4 GB modules). They have heat spreaders and when I looked at the performance diff between 1333 and 1600 it was like 2 FPS (if even that) in games. The extra money was better spent on a faster video card.
Koki on 15/10/2011 at 20:48
Quote Posted by Ladron De La Noche
You don't necessarily have to buy the same brand as long as the new ram can run at 1600 along with your other ram modules.
Yeah, but it's highly recommended to not only buy same brand, but to even buy same production series.
Muzman on 17/10/2011 at 09:32
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Video? Sure, hells yeah. HD resolution video editing's quite the thing. You might as well get yourself a modular mini-server cluster and some RAID for contiguous 1 petabyte storage partitions along with that RAM.
That'd be nice (note to self: buy that second hard disk too). I'm not really doing anything with so much footage, luckily. I could probably edit alright in 1080 with this box and lossless intermediate file sizes haven't proven to be too huge for the space. It's the 32bit colour space effects rendering that gets quite crunchy.
Anyway, what about CAS latency? Can you mix and match that? (the current line I've got seems to have run out of stock at the place I got it)
