ram differences?

ok whats the differences for RAM... I know ddr3 is newer and more expensive so forget them... but whats the difference between 2gb 1333 and 4gb 1066 and 8gb 800??

Also i heard that RAM has something to do with OC your processor (what????)

ok so the more the better i guess of DDR2 but i have heard about there being problems with vista and 8gbs of ram or something.

The 1333, 1066, 800 etc refer to the Mhz that memory has.  I'm not sure if this applies to new motherboards or doesn't matter anymore what kind of RAM you stick in with these kind of mobos now.  (Back then they defined what memory is compatible to what, sticking in the wrong memory would make the mother board act funky)

Check the memory standard of a motherboard.  If it says DDR2 1066/1333/#### that means those set of sticks is usable by that motherboard.  Note though if a motherboard instead mentions say... PC2 8500 you have to divide it by 8 (in this day and age you don't have to look for things like that anymore, but since you're dealing with Digital Storms anyway, info like this is unecessary, but it's good food for thought lol)

And yes more ram means more multitasking.  As for stuff like 4 GB or 8 GB, the thing about this is due to the architecture of 32-bit, and 64-bit.  Due to the limited mapping space of 32-bit, you can't "map" as much stuff.  So with say.. 4 GBs, at the max.. you'd  only use 3.5 GBs so to speak.  (and this is assuming you don't have other components using the mapping space lol)

With 64-bit the mapping space becomes exponentially bigger, and technically speaking everything moves faster now that everything is being properly utilized.

ZOMFG 128gb... thats crazy...

Now why would anyone need 8 GBs anyway?  No one does that severe amount of multi tasking, you'd need what.... 3-4 different games running at the same time?  And that's still not enough lol.  (Running Crysis takes up about 1 gig I believe?)

As for the reason why Premium is recommended is not because of the RAM limit.  (Even though it's better to have a bigger max limit anyway)  Is supposedly because in general Vista Basic sucks as a whole supposedly?  And Premium in general is a much better choice overall right?

so does the difference in speeds at make a big dif for price?

Edited by ItsForADuck - 02 Sep 2008 at 5:30pm

Editing video camera footage and making a DVD from the raw video is a process that easily takes advantage of my 8 GB of memory and then some with multiple threads running video post processing and other efforts. It speeds the process of making a DVD tremendously.

So if you do any video or sound processing work, more memory is definitely a good thing.

Dave