4 or 6 cores?

[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.