Hi guys!
Im in an urgent need to change my current MB : m4a87td USb 3.0 to a M5a97 Le R2.0
This is my current machine :
Phenom II 955 x4
2 x DDR3 1033 4GB Kingston
1HD 500 GB SATA III
1 HD 250 GB SATA II
Two DVD Writers.
Antec 520w
Radeon 6850 XFX
My current MB have 5.2 MT of system bus. This new one have 4.8… Will i notice any difference? ( slowdowns, etc?) I mean… i researched a lot and i dont see any problem…
that is quite a specific hardware question to ask in these forums… i am not sure that you will get any useful responses. However in my experience the difference in performance between motherboards are negligible. i.e. around 5%. That is unless you are wanting to over clock which is another matter entirely.
No you won’t.
But the question is why? Unless you plan to expand the RAM beyond 16GB then you are wasting cash.
If I had that system and had to upgrade anything, I would ditch that pitiful RAM and get a 1600 or 1833 set, 1033 is just poor imo.
4GB is enough to run 99% of everything…
Depends on your use case; 4GB is enough to run most (all?) games, but quickly depletes if rendering large scenes or running a heavy dev environment. My KDE setup at work currently reports 7.4GB ram usage. I personally wouldn’t get anything less than 16GB if I bought or upgraded a computer today.
Maybe for the typical user yes, some people still get amazed that a computer can connect to facebook.
4GB is very little for anything moderate to demanding, from basic Gimp/Photoshop to extensive database or huge projects in an IDE such as eclipse can eat memory like hell.
Imo today the minimum RAM you should aim for is 8GB, it cost £40 for a branded pair of 4GB sticks. Why spend the money in the first place if your going to by a standard that died 5 year ago?
It is like going out and buying a loaf of last weeks bread, sure it might do the job ok for a day, after that it’s shite.
I personally would also never build a computer without at least 8 gigs of RAM. When I went from 4 to 8 I saw a dramatic speedup in my computer’s performance, and I can run many more programs at once which is useful because I always seem to have a lot open.
But 8 gigs is a decent amount, sure it may be the new “standard”, but I wouldn’t throw 8 gigs into my grandmas computer, for example. 16 gigs seems like far too much right now; 8 is quite alright for me.
Yeah well, maybe you can’t afford fresh bread. Not everyone is wiling/has hundreds to pump into building a computer. I used a 4gb laptop until a year ago, and it was fine running gimp, nbeans, eclipse, and skyrim…simultaneously.
The only reason I’ve seen myself for having 16+ Gb of ram is for use as a ramdisk, aka a poor man’s (still expensive) SSD. Saw a guy putting the whole Planetside 2 install on a ramdisk, virtually no loading screen. Although I think SSD’s are probably now cheaper, albeit still not as fast.
Other than stuff like that, 8Gb is fine, that’s what I have.
For a while 4 gig is all you needed to do most things. Now it seems it is 8. Thing is, 4 is still rather good for most stuff. Today for s desktop build you will almost always get at least 8.
Another thing to watch for is the not only the clock speed but the cas timings. Unless the timings are 9 or less, no point in going for ram with a higher clock. 1600 at 9 is very nice. Anything better is negligible in most cases.
Best thing for speeding up computers today is more ram and ssd.
I only have 3GB, I fell poor reading this comments. 
But I use Gimp, Inkscape, Eclipse, sometimes 4 android emulators at the same time, browsers, music etc and my computer is not slow. So, in my case I don’t need 8 or 16 GB of ram. I don’t play the latest games tough.