16GB of RAM!! good for anything?
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GSAV55
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It really depends on what you are doing though, but at this point in time I dont think that there is very much of anything that you would be privately doing that would utilize anything close to that. In the not so distant future however, it will be utilized. 10 years ago 512mbs of ram was a lot
cpt.obvious
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That is true, 16 gig's now would just be a waste I think. I was at my local comp store and the guy said there is this old guy that comes in with his 1 gig hard drive and 64mb of ram lol and want's to fix it.
I remember seeing 2 gigs of ram was HUGE that was like in early double zeros.
Vipernitrox
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if you're video editing a lot you might hit 8gb but 16gb is just a complete waste atm.
AlienMenace
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MS says a x64 bit OS can have up to 128gb of ram, But I think that is for severs. Video editing and cad programs is what ppl use more than 4gb of memory for. I do a lot of video editing.
ronster667
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that might just be what you can overclock it to before it will quit reconizing it, dont know though for sure
sounds about right though
umm yeah 16 gigs is not needed you wouldnt even ever use 8 gigs doing regular stuff, unless you edit 1 gig photos lolz
gamerman4
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A CPU with 32bit memory addresses has 2^32 bits available for integers
A CPU with 64bit memory addresses has 2^64 bits available for integers
2^32 = 4294967296
so a 32bit CPU can handle 4GB of ram
2^64 = 18446744073709551616
so a 64bit CPU could theoretically handle roughly 18 exabytes of RAM
A CPU with 64bit memory addresses has 2^64 bits available for integers
2^32 = 4294967296
so a 32bit CPU can handle 4GB of ram
2^64 = 18446744073709551616
so a 64bit CPU could theoretically handle roughly 18 exabytes of RAM
Mitch?
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spot on my man! and both are taken down , real figures that can be used are something like 80% of the theoretical (as in, 4gb is possible, but you'll see 3.4 or so being used)
shoehorned
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Running virtual PC's also might hit the 16gb mark, depending how many you run.
Vipernitrox
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a 32bit os can adress 4gb of memory. There are other types of memory in your laptop than your talking about. Windows first adresses all other types of memory (cpu has some, graphics card has some) and what is left, it uses to adress the memory your talking about.
if you use that much memory to power your virtual machines (i'm assuming you're running more than 14 virtual machines then) you also need a mighty fast cpu and some very fast hard disks put in raid. That is if you want to do anything with your vm's
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Vipernitrox
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no that's not what i said and i really don't feel like explaining the thing again. There are tens of threads about this subject. The search function is there for a reason.