Need your opinion... get extra 6Gb Hyperx Elpida's?

I went from 6GB to 12GB, and aside from allowing me to run more Virtual Machines at a time when testing and noticing less severe framerate drops when maxing out my VRAM in Surround resolutions, I didn't see a great deal of difference. Given you're already running 2GB cards the VRAM limitation isn't a serious issue, and you're only running a single monitor so you likely won't notice much difference at all.

Thanks... i was just thinking about getting them so in the future, when i change system i could keep the memory...

But at the same time, i don't know if by the time i change, there aren't better options So it's a situation of " don't need it but get them ... you won't regret it for future proof " ... or " don't get them even if it's for future proof, because, in the future, you'll be able to get better memory modules for the same money "



So do you think the 2000C8 and 2133C8 HyperX's are still a future proof memory?

( I can use in the tri-channel, dual-channel and quad-channel ... Of course on 1155 platform i would "only" have 8Gb )

Not really sure I agree with the whole futureproofing idea anyway. Who knows what the future holds?

In terms of raw speed, I don't really bother with RAM faster than 1600MHz for X58 (which is what I'm still playing with) as triple-channel gives more than enough bandwidth.

If I did 'futureproofing' I could guarantee that DDR4 would magically come out a week later and Intel announce they're moving to that on all their future chips and discontinuing all support for DDR3.

By futureproof, i mean 1 year... DDR4 won't be available before 2013-14 imo.