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[cmp]

I'm pretty sure you can run it at 80C 24/24 (not gonna happen) and it will still work fine after years.
I agree that aftermarket coolers/thermal paste can give nice results, but I wouldn't really bother unless you already have some experience with it (or if they build the PC for you).

[Kafein]

It's quite the opposite: only an idiot would use the full 64 bit address space, since it leads to more page table levels and more complex TLB. Most (if not all) current x64 CPUs use a 48 bit address space.

I wasn't aware of that. However given that I was speaking about OS-level stuff and that as far as I know, low level memory management shenanigans such as the size of the address space isn't set in software, I wasn't technically wrong, right ? Right ?

[Leshma]

Are you seriously discussing maximum amount of memory OS can support? Doesn't matter, most applications are still 32-bit which means you'll have a hard time using more than 16 GB while gaming. Even if game has 64 bit exe it isn't designed to use more than 4 gigs of RAM.

[Kafein]

Are you seriously discussing maximum amount of memory OS can support? Doesn't matter, most applications are still 32-bit which means you'll have a hard time using more than 16 GB while gaming. Even if game has 64 bit exe it isn't designed to use more than 4 gigs of RAM.

Well of course, that's the issue I was talking about two posts ago.

[Gnjus]

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[Molly]

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Download the picture and use one of those "Make your own T-Shirt shops"...

[Tibe]

you still don't need (yet) 16gb ram for gaming same as you don't need 4gb in your gpu unless youre running eyefinity setup.

I dunno man. Give it 3 years and im pretty sure that 16gb comes more then handy. Already games like Watchdogs is going to have like 8gb as recommended and Star Citizen is going to have 12 as recommended. As in u might need more. Somewhat true, right now 8 is enough I quess. If u arent some insane AAA fan who wants everything in ultra.

[[ptx]]

What's the point in discussing memory? It can easily be extended at any moment, when needed, as long as your mobo has the appropriate slots.

[Miwiw]

As long as you dont buy 4x2gb you're fine.