Dragontology
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I'm doing an upgrade next year, and I've been saying I'm going to put 16GB on the motherboard... and to be honest with ya, I'll probably end up doing that anyway, since, last I checked, the cost isn't that different. But I've been advised 8GB should be all I need, and since I'm new here I figured I'd bounce some ideas off some fresh faces.
Basically the computer will be used for gaming... Currently considering an i5 quad core, but the "$200-$250 sweet spot" might end up occupied by a hex core, or if I'm lucky, octa (octo?) core proc come build time. I hope so. Phone has a quad. Seems like the desktop should have more. And an AMD HD6850 (1GB GDDR5) that I have now and won't be upgrading for at least a year or two. Also I do some light video editing. Transcoding... want to get into actual editing. I have 4GB now and I think the bottleneck is the CPU (AMD Phenom II X2, 3.2GHz/core, dual), not the RAM. I agree 8GB is fine for gaming and will probably make the bottleneck the GPU (whatever Intel proc I go with) but I'm thinking 16GB will kick it up a notch, especially with the video stuff. Or will I just be wasting money?
Basically the computer will be used for gaming... Currently considering an i5 quad core, but the "$200-$250 sweet spot" might end up occupied by a hex core, or if I'm lucky, octa (octo?) core proc come build time. I hope so. Phone has a quad. Seems like the desktop should have more. And an AMD HD6850 (1GB GDDR5) that I have now and won't be upgrading for at least a year or two. Also I do some light video editing. Transcoding... want to get into actual editing. I have 4GB now and I think the bottleneck is the CPU (AMD Phenom II X2, 3.2GHz/core, dual), not the RAM. I agree 8GB is fine for gaming and will probably make the bottleneck the GPU (whatever Intel proc I go with) but I'm thinking 16GB will kick it up a notch, especially with the video stuff. Or will I just be wasting money?