Enough RAM?

[Torrentskillz]

Building a new system

i7 2600k, Asus P8P67, Dual Hd 6850, Raid Sata3 SSD

Is 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz enough ram?

[FlawleZ]

What are you doing with your system?

For gaming/benching/folding/photography, that's typically plenty.

[tived]

No, its not enough :-)

well, for me it wouldn't be enough

[kikicoco1334]

most ppl only need like 8gb i think

[Chickenfeed]

For general use and gaming, 8GB is plenty as of today. Obviously that will eventually change down the road but unless you have a habit of some serious multi tasking and workstation type usage scenarios, you won't find yourself in need of more than that. All that in mind, given the all time low cost of DDR3, if you can get a inexpensive 16GB PC12800 kit, by all means go ahead. Just don't spend a bucket load on 16GB+ of high speed low latency stuff, its largely a waste for 99% of cases.

[HWaddict]

When archiving 92GB data with 7-Zip in Ultra mode today the used RAM exceeded 8GB!

It took nearly 4 hours to compress the data into 20 DVD-R sized files.

[tived]

With you zip's does this not have more to do with CPU speed?

[HWaddict]

Yes I know it's a Xeon system on a budget (8x cores @ 2.13GHz), but I've got some use of the upgrade from 6GB RAM.

[tived]

:-) xeon system on a budget ;-)
i didn't know you could make sentences with those two words together "Xeon and Budget" ;-)

24GB is not a bad start, it really depends on what you are going to do with the system - i can max out 96gb of ram when i work on large images - lately i have been investing in storage instead - not updated my sig... but it now contains 20x SSD's and a Areca 1882ix 24 4GB controllers

I have down graded my ram to 48GB till i can afford to buy some Crucial 1600 ECC sticks.....wondering if i could juse 16GB sticks, but i have not seen anyone else use that on this board, and hoping that i can bring them with me to the next build in a year or two. 12x 16GB :-)

All the best - build within your means and just add as you go along find where your bottlenecks are and then improve on that as you go