Need more RAM?

[Okedokey]

Those who tell you more than 3GB of RAM is more than enough - are wrong.

I frequently use over that.

Attached is a pic of my computer doing 1 (one) thing.

Error checking a hard drive.

Nearly all 6GB used.

http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/bigfellla1/ram.png

the point is, i frequently do things that need more than 4GB of RAM. Win 7 at least will use all you have, which is loads faster than a standard HD.

 

[Aastii]

Because you error check your hard drive daily

4GB is more than enough for pretty much everyone. Your average user who uses their computer for emails, facebook and online banking won't be using any more than 1, maybe 2, at the absolute most. Those that game, or do video and picture editing (unless the pictures are very, very large) will still only be using 3GB maybe at most.

Unless you are daily doing things which make use of large amounts of memory, which the vast minority of people do, 3 or 4GB is plenty

 

[Demilich]

Those who tell you more than 3GB of RAM is more than enough - are wrong.

I frequently use over that.

Attached is a pic of my computer doing 1 (one) thing.

Error checking a hard drive.

Nearly all 6GB used.

http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/bigfellla1/ram.png

the point is, i frequently do things that need more than 4GB of RAM. Win 7 at least will use all you have, which is loads faster than a standard HD.

I use 1GB of RAM on some of my machines. Do you know why? Because I don't run 80 processes constantly. I always have less than 20 processes running at any given time. So, you're completely incorrrect. If you didn't have 50 background processes running-as you do in that photo-you may have better functionality with your system.

 

[Aastii]

I use 1GB of RAM on some of my machines. Do you know why? Because I don't run 80 processes constantly. I always have less than 20 processes running at any given time. So, you're completely incorrrect. If you didn't have 50 background processes running-as you do in that photo-you may have better functionality with your system.

I have 59 processes consuming a massive... 46% of my 1GB in this system, on Vista. Just goes to show that the normal user (I am only on the net and torrent program open) doesn't need massive amounts of memory

 

[tech savvy]

Those who tell you more than 3GB of RAM is more than enough - are wrong.

I frequently use over that.

Attached is a pic of my computer doing 1 (one) thing.

Error checking a hard drive.

Nearly all 6GB used.

http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/bigfellla1/ram.png

the point is, i frequently do things that need more than 4GB of RAM. Win 7 at least will use all you have, which is loads faster than a standard HD.

i agree.on my laptop (Pavilion dv5, bought 3 days ago) uses 51% of the 4gbs with 78 processes, running w7 home 64bit doing nothing(idle).that was out of the box memory usages,nothing uninstalled,nothing tweak/configed just what came with the laptop.now if you want to sacrifice features/software than you can run fine on 3 or less gigs, but IMO these days you need 4 or more gigs.

 

[Aastii]

i agree.on my laptop (Pavilion dv5, bought 3 days ago) uses 51% of the 4gbs with 78 processes, running w7 home 64bit doing nothing(idle).that was out of the box memory usages,nothing uninstalled,nothing tweak/configed just what came with the laptop.now if you want to sacrifice features/software than you can run fine on 3 or less gigs, but IMO these days you need 4 or more gigs.

So you didn't uninstall all the HP bloatware? Take that off and it will drop to maybe 30% used at most, and if it came with a paid-for security suite, like Norton or Mcaffee, you swap that for Avast!, Avira or AVG (The first would be my choice), and again, memory usage will go down

 

[Demilich]

So you didn't uninstall all the HP bloatware? Take that off and it will drop to maybe 30% used at most, and if it came with a paid-for security suite, like Norton or Mcaffee, you swap that for Avast!, Avira or AVG (The first would be my choice), and again, memory usage will go down

Most definitely. 6 GB of RAM is a rediculous amount of RAM for normal use, unless they didn't uninstall that pesky bloatware, and in that case, they might as well install another 4 GB's of RAM lolz

However, I can't really knock bloatware too much, as it's one of the main reasons HP and Asus sell their computers at such cheap rates. Just can't forget to uninstall it.

 

[Aastii]

Most definitely. 6 GB of RAM is a rediculous amount of RAM for normal use, unless they didn't uninstall that pesky bloatware, and in that case, they might as well install another 4 GB's of RAM lolz

However, I can't really knock bloatware too much, as it's one of the main reasons HP and Asus sell their computers at such cheap rates. Just can't forget to uninstall it.

The fact that they use cheap components is why they can sell them so cheap. If you used the knock off products they do, you too could build a system for that price, in fact cheaper because you aren't paying for time + labour of putting it together, meaning for the same price you can build as good or better. The bloatware is there to "make things easier", when in reality it really doesn't, it just makes everything worse and helps nobody, because those that aren't computer literate will never use the "tools" given to them, so they just sit there, taking up resources and slowing it all down

 

[melloorr]

I have 2 gig DDR2 in the laptop im using now.. and i dont think iv ever need more than that

 

[zombine210]

my server stays around 400MB of PC133 !
700 when scanning for virus. you have other stuff running there.

i'm getting ready to upgrade my main rig to 8gb because i plan on running a couple VMs.

 

[Demilich]

The fact that they use cheap components is why they can sell them so cheap. If you used the knock off products they do, you too could build a system for that price, in fact cheaper because you aren't paying for time + labour of putting it together, meaning for the same price you can build as good or better. The bloatware is there to "make things easier", when in reality it really doesn't, it just makes everything worse and helps nobody, because those that aren't computer literate will never use the "tools" given to them, so they just sit there, taking up resources and slowing it all down

I don't think it's that simple. HP, Asus, and Dell get paid big bucks to include, or "promote", third party software in their PC's. Also, interestingly enough, one of my HP computers doesn't have very cheap parts, and it was a cheap computer, with parts that include: Asus, Hitachi, and Lite-On. Sure, I've never heard of the PSU brand that's included, but that's why they include warranties, and I've never had to use it.