How much ram does it requiers?

[Sam DeathWalker]

Think I will turn up enviornmental detail to max and see how that works.

[burningforce]

not sure of it was fixed or not, but wasn't there a problem with flash player crashing along with the system when flash player utilized GPU decoding? I remember having a few crashes with WoW when I was running some video on youtube or some other site that usess flash player.
So that could be why some of you are/were crashing when boxing and multi-tasking at the same time.

my opinion on how much memory you need depends on how your system is configured. If you have 16GB of memory, but allow your anti-virus to scan in the background, let a defrag program defrag disks in the background, and have these other non-essential programs running in the background when gaming, all the memory in the world will not help. Simply because the cpu may be doing more work handling the strain from gaming and these other apps.

But a minimum I would use for gaming is 8GB, just because memory prices are so damn low at the moment you can not pass up these deals. If you are deciding what memory speed you should get, it depends on your cpu and motherboard. I have a sandy bridge 2500k and the supported memory is 1066, but my motherboard allows me to use 1600 memory speeds but this will overclock the cpu a little and cause a increase in memory voltage. So refer to your motherboard and cpu vendor before getting something.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

To sum up this thread: It Depends(tm).

4GB is enough to 5-box and it's what people used to 5-box WoW with before 64-bit became well-supported. You'll have to use lowered resolutions and settings to get decent performance with 4GB.

8GB is plenty. You may be able to run medium to high settings in WoW, lower in other games.

12GB and up is overkill for most setups unless you want to run everything at super-high resolutions and ultra+ settings.

[MiRai]

If you are deciding what memory speed you should get, it depends on your cpu and motherboard. I have a sandy bridge 2500k and the supported memory is 1066, but my motherboard allows me to use 1600 memory speeds but this will overclock the cpu a little and cause a increase in memory voltage. So refer to your motherboard and cpu vendor before getting something.

This is false. Using memory with a higher rated speed than your CPU requires or supports does not
automatically overclock your CPU nor does it increase memory voltage. When you purchase memory it
is rated to run at a certain voltage and it is up to the user themselves to alter that voltage if they want
(or need). Intel recommends that you only use 1.5v DIMMs.

Intel® recommends using memory that adheres to the Jedec memory specification for DDR3 memory which is
1.5 volts, plus or minus 5%. Anything over this voltage can either damage the processor or significantly reduce
the processor life span.

Sandy Bridge memory speed standards are 1066/1333.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Fenrill is correct, putting in faster ram does not increase buss or cpu speed you need to do that in the bios.

In fact I underclock my memory in the bios (800mhz and 2T) because stability is way more important then some extra ram speed. Once your data is in system ram you are gold no matter what.

Well with memory prices dirt cheap I would only get 4G sticks, as then you can add more ram to your board later if you want to without selling your current memory.

Ya 8G for 5 box is more then enough but with prices what they are why not go to 12 or 16, again Win7 is going to use that for cache purposes so why not have some data in ram where you can get it faster instead of on the SSD/HD?

[burningforce]

ah I see, perhaps I am thinking of older sockets. I could of swore I read something that since the memory controller is integrated onto the cpu, when the memory is overclocked it increases voltages used and increases the bus speed. Or is it the memory that gets overclocked if you overclock the cpu on sandy bridge?

I think I need to dig up that old anandtech article on sandy bridge before I continue making a fool of myself lol :P

thanks for the correction though