I'm Am Running on 8gb DDr2 Overclock To 1333Mhz I'm Planning To Upgrade to 12Gb Is That A Waste Of Money? ?

Question

I'm Am Running on 8gb DDr2 Overclock To 1333Mhz I'm Planning To Upgrade to 12Gb Is That A Waste Of Money? ?

Answer 1

It depends on what you are doing with the machine.

We have test box's at work with 16 Gb RAM and dual quad core procs.  These machines need those high resources to run the VM (virtual machines) we run on them.

If you are running out of the 8 Gb of RAM you are currently using, then upgrading to 12 Gb is not a bad idea.

If you are nowhere near the 'high water mark' then it would be a waste of money.

Answer 2

Yes, you will burn your mobo. Also u GOTTA make sure ur powersupply give off enough energy before u upgrade.

Answer 3

Yeah because you can hardly notice a difference between 8GB and 16GB of RAM... unless you want to count that 5 FPS difference for games.