WAcky

I too thought 8gb would be a good idea. Alas!

Vista has a problem with 8gb of ram. I installed 8 gb of ram without too much of a problem, or at least i didnt realise it was going bad. Startup times went from 15 seconds to 10 minutes and after I installed SP1 the computer became unuseable. The processor was runnin 100% full time. I couldnt even open up internet explorer with two or more tabs open.

A mate of mine did some reading and let me know that vista has a big problem with 8gb of ram. I took out 4gb and now its running like lightning. Over clocked my 6600 to 3ghz and im loving it all over again. With this overclocking im gaining about 10 minutes per hour. When i buy a nice big heatsink and fan and we hit winter here down under im going to try for 3.5ghz +

Im yet to try a 6gb config but i have a feeling the performance will decrease again.

If you're using Vista (im using ultimate 64) then wait for a patch to fix this problem before thinking about 8gb of ram.

When i say it was unuseable, i mean slower than the computer you had 5 years ago when it was full of junk and took ages to open anything...