Yeah - I hate to close tabs. And, I usually have both Firefox and IE open at the same time. Plus other programs. Of course, I'm running Windows 7 Professional, with 4gb and I rarely run out of memory.

I'm probably going 16gb for the new build, but you typically recommend as little RAM as you can get away with, rather than overbuying - simply because most people overbuy ram (and, to a lesser degree, processor and power supply) - I try to heed that when setting budget lines for various components.

Things I'm going to do as "firsts" this upcoming build:

First Fractal case

First full build of intel PC from scratch (I've built up from Dell server towers with Pentium 4s - and I've swapped out intel processors - but never an intel build from the ground up - all AMD for those builds in the past)

First G.Skill memory (I'm a Crucial/Corsair guy)

First fully modular case

First fully modular PS

First "non-budget" build

So, I'm excited enough about the differences - this may be the first build with no platter drives, but I'm probably going to throw 1 in there for local media and backup - if nothing else.

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Posted by ILikeLSUToo

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Posted on 9/12/15 at 1:22 pm to Ace Midnight

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I'm probably going 16gb for the new build, but you typically recommend as little RAM as you can get away with, rather than overbuying - simply because most people overbuy ram (and, to a lesser degree, processor and power supply) - I try to heed that when setting budget lines for various compenents.

My rule of thumb is "8GB unless you know why you, specifically, would need more than that." As you know, it's very simple to monitor RAM usage and decide whether you need to order more, but nobody seems to do it.

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First G.Skill memory (I'm a Crucial/Corsair guy)

Ah, well you'll come to find that as long as you aren't overclocking beyond its rated specs, RAM is RAM (and long gone are the days where you need the fastest and most stable RAM to handle the FSB increases for CPU overclocks). However, unlike most other components--where you can get a general idea of who's doing the actual manufacturing vs. who's just assembling/branding--the RAM market is little cloudier to me. Not much information readily available online about which ones make their own chips and whom they supply to.

Micron/Crucial, Hynix, Samsung, and Winbond are big manufacturers, but there are probably many more that make perfectly fine modules. G.Skill, I'm not sure who supplies their chips or PCBs but their product is impeccable. And we all know Corsair doesn't make anything at all, but again you'd be hard pressed to find a bad Corsair product.

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