heads up G.SKILL 16GB (2 x 8G) 1600 RAM going on sale at 1PM PST

heads up G.SKILL 16GB (2 x 8G) 1600 RAM going on sale at 1PM PST on newegg. No Price info yet so keep an eye on it. Might be an awesome price.


Newegg.com - Shell Shocker Deal. Exclusive Jaw Dropping Savings on PC Components and Electronics.


Sidenote...does anyyone know why newegg doesn't email pricing news letters anymore? I miss getting a 1 week or 1 day heads up on shell shocker and getting the sale catelogs emailed to me. It hasn't worked for the last 2 years i think.

 

$49.99 - absolute steal

 

yea i was lucky was still available when i got home

 

I ordered two. 32GB in my Sager. No real reason actually, I guess because I can!

 

i only needed one more stick because 6GB is not enough for my usage. With my old computer with 8GB i get low memory errors and 6GB is even worse so 14GB would have been perfect 6+8 but for $15 more i might as well get two 8Gb sticks lol. Was planning on just getting one at 35 bucks since thats a fair price but two for 50 psh might as well ^^

 

I have to ask what you run to make more than 8GB necessary. Almost everyone can very easily get by with 8GB for most applications.
Unless you are constantly using multiple VMs or running particularly memory-hungry applications, 8GB is more than enough.

I certainly can see enthusiasts being able to use more than 8GB... but never really "needing" it.

 

web browsers and stuff. F@H using like .5-1GB, opera uses 1-4GB at times, than chrome uses .5-1GB so yea i burn through 8GB fast. I always have like 50-80 tabs opened between 3-5 windows. plus chrome playing netflix since netlfix is glitchy with opera

EDIT: also win7 and programs are weird. I got by fine with 4GB then i installed 8GB and i instantly went from using 3GB to 4-6GB with no difference in usage....actually it was the exact same stuff open i just restarted and reopened everything. Also after i installed the 8GB and turned off VM it went to 5-7GB and after 6 month i started getting memory errors due to lack of memory so i had to turn virtual memory back on :/ I also posted somewhere on NBR where i windows 7 says your using 7GB but if you add everything up in processes it only reads like 5.7GB....no one could answer why windows does that.

On new Laptop and i am using 4.63 GB out of 6GB and opera is using 1.33GB and i only have pandora and have 18 tabs open in 1 window. I ahven't finished moving everything over yet.

I guarantee you after i put in 22GB of ram in this I will instantly double in ram usage....don't ask me how that works out but it does. I think programs just cache more to RAM if the space is there even if they don't need it.

 

My only reason is virtual machines. 16GB is really enough for what I do, but always good to give more RAM to the VM and have option to open a couple more VM's if I want, more simultaneous servers too.

 

i am actually looking into doing VMs in the near future for a little project ^^

 

For some reason I can't see the ad for the gskill ram and instead it shows desktop parts. I wanted to know the all the specs.

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The deal is over already.

 

Shell Shocker deals last from whatever time they start until midnight PST or the product sells out. Newegg e-mails the list to subscribers daily or you can simply go to their website.

 

If you want to know the specs though, here's the product page:

Newegg.com - G.SKILL 16GB (2 x 8G) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Laptop Memory Model F3-1600C10D-16GSQ

 

how do you still get those emails? the stopped sending me those 2 years ago and i keep selecting send me email offers and i get none...i have tried 3 different emails and they never send me it anymore

 

Windows Vista and above eats more RAM than it really needs to use as cache.
It's an old trick that hearkens to the days when power users would load up a RAMDrive with frequently used programs.
Windows does this by default and frees up RAM from cache when you really need it.

This does not mean you cannot use the extra RAM and that it isn't helping... It likely was well worth the price for this deal.

 

does windows do that for opera or does that only do that for windows itself?

 

All programs. Anything Windows believes will be loaded into RAM again soon.

Just like the old RAMdrive trick, it works for anything.

The concept is that RAM just sitting there is doing nothing. If Windows isn't using it, it uses the extra as cache.
When you need RAM for programs, Windows releases cache.

 

thats probably why it says 6.5GB is used and only 5.7GB shows up in processes..interesting