Cannibalizing a free gaming PC.

[DavidR310]

So a friend gave me his old gaming PC.

I am going through and see what is better than what I currently have and seeing what I can swap out. After all is said and done, I plan to give my Dad the old second pc.

The two main things I am looking at are RAM and video cards. The guys already helped me with the RAM question, but I am still wondering about the video card. They are close in specs.

My current card is a HIS Radeon 6670:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161397R&cm_re=HIS_Radeon_HD_6670-_-14-161-397R-_-Product

The one in the free PC is a XFX Radeon 6750:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150602

Should I swap video cards along with the RAM?



THANKS!


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Original Post

I have a choice of running 8gb ram (2x4gb) that is at 1600mhz @ 1.35v or 16gb ram (4x4gb) that is 1333mhz@1.5v.

Both are free. Which one do I choose? I am running Win 7 Pro. I would like the Samsung RAM, but they no longer make it so I can't run 16gbs.

8gb RAM: http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Electr.../dp/B0059200FY

16gb RAM: http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-PC3-10.../dp/B003N8GVUY

[meaty-btz]

does your system support both? If so more is better and there are 16GB options available in the 1600mhz 1.35v flavor.

[Peter.Steele]

Depends on what you're doing, I suspect.

I honestly can't imagine that you're going to see much of a difference performance-wise between 1333 and 1600. There are plenty of other places that will bottleneck you before that difference in memory speed will become noticeable.

For myself, I'd take the 16 GB, but that's because some of the stuff that I work on is ridiculously memory intensive - I've got 16 GB at home and 20 at work, and the 20 is barely enough for some of the simulations I run.

[DavidR310]

My system is a 64 bit system so yeah it can handle both. My motherboard is gtg too. A friend gave me his old gaming pc with the 16 gigs of ram and am wondering if I should swap RAM with my current pc's ram? I plan to give my Dad this second pc. All he does is watch YouTube and read Drudge Report lol.

[meaty-btz]

Depends on what you're doing, I suspect.

I honestly can't imagine that you're going to see much of a difference performance-wise between 1333 and 1600. There are plenty of other places that will bottleneck you before that difference in memory speed will become noticeable.

For myself, I'd take the 16 GB, but that's because some of the stuff that I work on is ridiculously memory intensive - I've got 16 GB at home and 20 at work, and the 20 is barely enough for some of the simulations I run.

I'd say that 16GB is minimum for any "power" user at home these days. As for performance gains, I tend to take a more granular view of where to spend.

Too little fast ram bottlenecks at the drive. The goal is to have as much as possible loaded into RAM since it does 100% of the back and forth hand off with the processors cache memory. Which again is why back in the long ago the Penitum Pro was such a performer, even compared to early P][s. The very large, on die cache. Even within that line those processors with larger on die cache were superior performers to a faster with lower cache. Same hold true today.

Since the modern processors are faster than anything else in your system... I go, Big CACHE, Big and Fast Ram, and a Fast solid state drive or you can use a boot strapper setup with a massive amount of ram to mount your system as a RAM Disk, some of the extremely high end workstations run hundreds of gigs of ram on board.

[DavidR310]

My OS is on a 128gb SSD with a 2TB WD Black HDD.

[Uriah02]

16gb will go further than the reduced speed IMO.

[monk]

Personally I'd take the 8gb and add another 8gb matching. Give the 16 to your dad.

[DavidR310]

Personally I'd take the 8gb and add another 8gb matching. Give the 16 to your dad.

That's the problem. Samsung no longer makes my RAM....

[stilly]

Personally I'd take the 8gb and add another 8gb matching. Give the 16 to your dad.

I do not think the dad would appreciate all that ram like we do.

I say keep the 16GB for yourself and give your dad 4gb...

Then the other 4gb as a birthday or father's day present...

[SonofWWIIDI]

I thought this was gonna be a basement thread.

[DavidR310]

16gb will go further than the reduced speed IMO.

That's what I'm thinking. Just want to make sure.

I do not think the dad would appreciate all that ram like we do.

I say keep the 16GB for yourself and give your dad 4gb...

Then the other 4gb as a birthday or father's day present...

That's a good one lol.

I thought this was gonna be a basement thread.

I understand the confusion with us talkin bout how big our RAM sticks are.