chumley Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 I am about to place an order for a new CPU, Mobo and RAM. I will be installing Win 7 64 bit version and have seen various sigs showing varying RAM configurations. This is probably old hat now but from my recollection if you installed 4 GB RAM it would be most likely 2 x 2 GB and 8 GB would be 4 x 2 GB or 2 x 4 GB - in other words there would never be only 3 of the 4 slots used. With 6 GB is it 2 x 2 plus 1 + 1 or can it be 3 x 2. Also, will FSX use all or a significant portion of the 4 6 or 8 GB Thanks Andy b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest J van E Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 It depends on the CPU and MOBO! With your current CPU (Q9550) memory should be DDR2, dual channel, so that's 2 x whatever you want. With a i7 you need DDR3, triple-channel, so that's 3 modules. I'd go for 3x2=6. FSX won't use it all, but the rest is nice to have for other stuff (in the background). More RAM is overkill imho. AFAIK... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TenBlade Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 DDR3 ram does not require 3 sets, it´s motherboard specific. My board will not run stable with three sets of DDR3 ram, must be one, two or four sets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest J van E Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 I stand corrected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TenBlade Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 No worries, mate! Though I wish I could add another stick. But the i7 processor makes that possible. Hear talk about an 8 core processor on it´s way! Should be interesting to see what that´ll do to FSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice_King Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 Unfortunately due to the way the memory is addressed I believe that you are basically locked into 1, 2, 4 or 8 memory modules (this is MoBo dependent though) and varies a bit but generally you will see that type of arrangement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chumley Posted May 17, 2010 Author Share Posted May 17, 2010 I asked my supplier to give me a recommendation on the RAM issue. For the CPU/Mobo combination Asus P6T motherboard Intel 930 Core i7 2.8Ghz CPU this was recommended. Gskill 6G(3x2G) 1600Mhz DDR3 Ram KIT (PN F3-12800CL9T-6GBNQ) Does it look OK for the task? Thanks Andy b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice_King Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 Should give you good results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest J van E Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 Gskill 6G(3x2G) 1600Mhz DDR3 Ram KIT (PN F3-12800CL9T-6GBNQ) Looks ok. Here is a review of it. It doesn't have fast timings (9-9-9-24, so I have read), but it should work fine. (I have been wondering for some time if faster timings make a noticable effect...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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