What's the most resource hungry software you use?

FSX eats up about 60-80% of my RAM. I need to get more. It's just too damn expensive.
 
voyagerfan99 said:
FSX eats up about 60-80% of my RAM. I need to get more. It's just too damn expensive.
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That's one thing I've wondered. I have 2gigs of RAM and when using Flight Sim X I utilize about 1.3 to 1.5 gigs. Would getting another gig help me or will it only improve performance if you've maxed it what you have?

Does having more RAM "spread the work load" or in some manner to help your system even if you haven't 100% maxed out all the RAM you have?
 
oscaryu1 said:
Corsair XMS2 2GB DDR2-800 CL4 for $29 after rebates.

Now that is sure is expensive :rolleyes:
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Thanks. My board should support that.

EDIT: My mobo has the following for memory slots.

Memory Expansion
The MSNV-939 provides 4 DIMM sockets using Dual Channel 184-pin DDR with a total capacity of up to 4GB. You can install DDR 266/333/400MHz Memory.

Would your idea still work with my mobo or do I need to find another kind of memory?
 
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Final Cut Studio Woot.

Vizy, How much music do you have? Where does it slow up...does it show you the bar saying "Loading Library" or does it just take a long time to start [/hijack]
 
How are you guys using so much ram? I have stock clocked 2gb ram and never reach over 55% ram usage on vista!! Well i dont know what its at when running games but when i have firefox, azureus, wmp, and convertxtodvd 3 going its at about 50% and it takes alot to go over that. Convertxtodvd just robs the cpu majorly but all vid converters do. My cpu usage jups up to about 65-70% when converting vids.
 
Mine would be iTunes + Safari...... But it seems programs take advantage of that free RAM space... like when i used to have 512mb ram xp ran at 192mb at start up.. then i bought another 512 and out of no where XP at start up ran 256-300mb...
 
Im not running crysis or anything but running rainbow six vegas at decent frame rates. The lowest i got was about 30fps in some heavy shadow and action. Rainbow six vegas is a good game it think but im not much of a fan for shooter games. Im a race sim guy!
 
Any application that takes over 2gigs of RAM to run, that isn't high end or server side is very sloppily coded. I have an older system and I play modern games on at medium settings generally, and I have never used up more than my 2gigs of RAM in it.
 
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