How much RAM do you need???

[PHATSPEED7x]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9998828-1.html?tag=bubbl_2

6GB of RAM Sweeeeet!!!!

 

[Geoff]

You can get 8GB RAM kits now on Newegg

 

[cohen]

what's next 10GB or 12GB

 

[PHATSPEED7x]

How about 1TB...

 

[Bob Jeffery]

4gb is enough....its enough to browse firefox, listen to music, and play wow, and cs:s...

 

[diduknowthat]

4gb is enough....its enough to browse firefox, listen to music, and play wow, and cs:s...

It's enough to do just about anything. I have 4GB and have never seen my computer use over 3 gigs. The highest it's ever used was when I ran Premier CS3 and photoshop Cs3 at the same time.

 

[Gareth]

You can also get 16GB RAM Kits off Newegg.

 

[Cooto3s]

8gb is for the real men!

 

[jdbennet]

It's enough to do just about anything. I have 4GB and have never seen my computer use over 3 gigs

what OS do you run?

i got 2.5, the .5 is for the system etc..., and the 2 is there for games basically

im on xp though. My vista laptop has 3gb and it still seems slow?

 

[Jhow]

My vista laptop has 3gb and it still seems slow?

get used to it

 

[funkysnair]

i have 4gig ddr2 1066mhz and i find it good for vista 64bit

 

[Twist86]

I have 4GB of DDR2 800 ram for X64 Vista Ultimate and I notice a jump from 2gb to 4gb

 

[jdbennet]

pain in the ass. Vista is just so bloated. I mean, what the hell did they use a whole dual layer dvd for? a clean install uses like ~12-18gb

xp was like ~550mb and well under 3gb when installed

answeer = bloat

 

[Kornowski]

Yeah, I have 4GB of RAM, it's perfect!

 

[Shane]

i have 3GB,vista uses around 750-800Mb of it idle but still over 2Gb free.

i find it perfect,no lag ever,i heard you dont see any performance increase going from 3Gb to 4 so i didnt bother.

 

[Gareth]

Even if Vista did use 18GB of space, on todays hard drives, is that truly a lot, err, no. Not for when you can get 500GB for $69.

Also, on my 20GB HDD on my old C600, Vista uses just 6GB.

 

[fade2green514]

the real question is how much ram can you possibly use at once? ive never used my paging file unless stress testing my ram... 4gb is plenty. speaking of which my 32-bit OS only takes advantage of 3gb of it, and i dont think i ever maxed out my 2gb kit when i used it.

 

[jdbennet]

who here has superfetch on or off?

when its on, the caching to ram is supposed to make things faster but IMHO it seems to make things slower for me, and adds a lag at startup?

 

[Bob Jeffery]

on my previous post where i was doing all the stuff i was on 64bit vista and it was only using 1.8 or 1.9gb lol. But i was using nod32

 

[f.i.t.h]

I use 4 gb, its enough for me.
For now...

*goes to buy another 4gb ram*
*wakes up from dream*