4 or 6 cores?

[Sam DeathWalker]

$600 for 24G?

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-KINGSTON-12G...item483b7f2ce0

[Owltoid]

$600 for 24G?

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-KINGSTON-12G...item483b7f2ce0

$85
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820141419

[grap]

video ram in your graphic card is very important too.
i test with sapphir x4870 512Mo, two x4870 512Mo, msi GeForce 285oc 1Go and now i m with sapphir 5870 vapor-x 2Go.

i had i7920 stock + 12 Go ram and display 24in 1900X1200.
OS w7 x64 ssd intel 80Go
wow data syslink on adaptec 2405 raid 0 X4 ocz solid cor 30Go 1er generation so
and 5 wow on the lovely 300Go velociraptor ....

with x4870 512Mo, i used full 12Go ram
with x4870 X2 ... it was the worst !!
with msi 285 1Go, i used near 9Go ram but my cpu was near 100% so limited at stock frequency
the follow didnt break but ips drop in dalaran.

these test were on dalaran city, late in the end of week-end when you have many players

now with 5870 2Go and a little x980 3.33GHz .... but 40% on 5 cors ( number 6 is sleeping with 0% ), i use 8 Go ram and to please me i add 2 other screen for the eyefinity so 1x24in + 2X22in.
main 24in full except shadow 2 dots less

For me, the nice i7 920 2.66GHz could breath near 3GHz oc

[MiRai]

$600 for 24G?

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-KINGSTON-12G...item483b7f2ce0

That's ECC...

[alcattle]

That's ECC...

all the 3x4gig on Newegg all more than that, like $340

[MiRai]

all the 3x4gig on Newegg all more than that, like $340

I was implying that unless you have a board that can specifically use ECC RAM then it's completely useless. And in theory, it'd be completely useless for gaming as well.

[alcattle]

Right, I had a feeling that ECC would not work, I was kind of saying 12 gig x2 was a lot of money whatever type you used and $600 could add many improvements even though you would not have instant data as RAM would give you.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Right its ecc and right ecc don't work. Still what then $700 for 24G?

$600 could add many improvements even though you would not have instant data as RAM would give you

Say its $700, my point is upgrading the cpu or video card or adding a SSD for $700 will not be as effective as adding ram. Say you spend $400 for a X58/I7 920 combo and $150 for a video card. Now take $700 and upgrade the cpu and video card and add a SSD. It wont preform as well as a system with the x58/920 and 24G ram and basic $150 video card.

[DLoweinc]

I figured I'd chime in here and add some 4 core vs 6 core info.

I just changed the PC that I am boxing on from an intel core 2 quad q9550 (2.8ghz) to a 6 core amd 1055t (2.8ghz).

Obviously the system boards are different but all other components are the same (Hard drives, video card) with the exception of RAM.

I am seeing less CPU use and less memory usage on my amd 6 core machine with 5 clients running (innerspace). I averaged between 5GB and 6GB of use with everything running on the Core 2 Quad CPU. Now with the AMD chip I am averaging 4GB of memory used.

Both systems had 8GB of RAM with the difference being my 6core AMD machine having 1333mhz speed RAM and the Core 2 Quad having 800mhz RAM.

[d0z3rr]

I ran 6 WoWs on my old ass q6600 with 8gb of memory. 0 performance problems. So yeah, it will be rock solid on a x6.