No need for more than 4GB ram.

spearman914 · Feb 26, 2009

Fleck said:
Liiike I said.. alllmost nobody needs more than 2GB of RAM.

Anyone using more is a fanboy who wanted the bigdick analogy of having 4+GB of RAM, or professionals or serious gamers like urself.

2GB is enough??? When u add more ram, the game uses more memory so..... there is no limit to overkill.

frankie827 · Feb 26, 2009

sweeper said:
well crap.... heck I might jump up to 4GB to see what the fuss is all about. Throw in a few games, apps, photo editing, etc. and see if I get a bit more performance. But, I'm on an older PC and 2 more GB is more expensive than 99% of the users here. LOL.

i'm still using RDRAM in my torrent box. RDRAM is really expensive now haha

spearman914 · Feb 26, 2009

frankie827 said:
i'm still using RDRAM in my torrent box. RDRAM is really expensive now haha

For the price of two sticks of RDRAM, u could buy a cheapy G31 mobo, E2180, and 4GB's of DDR2 800 ram. :laugh:

frankie827 · Feb 26, 2009

spearman914 said:
For the price of two sticks of RDRAM, u could buy a cheapy G31 mobo, E2180, and 4GB's of DDR2 800 ram.

hahaha exactly!

sweeper · Feb 26, 2009

It's going to cost me $79.00 to get 2 more gigs of matching sticks for my system .. compaired to DDR2... that's twice as much.

spearman914 · Feb 26, 2009

sweeper said:
It's going to cost me $79.00 to get 2 more gigs of matching sticks for my system .. compaired to DDR2... that's twice as much.

$80 for 2GB DDR WTF??

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138125
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211356
LMAO!!

TheMailMan78 · Feb 26, 2009

Nick89 said:
I see PC-gamers talking about having 6GB-8GB of ram like it makes there PC faster. I have 4GB of ram and used Win7 64bit and never used all of the ram.

I dont see a need for more than 4GB when gaming. And I dont know of any aplications that use more than 4GB of system ram. In the future maby, but until then its just a waste to have more than 4GB.

Maby some video processing programs use more than 4GB of system ram but for the average gamers its a waste. /end rant.

I can answer you with one word.....Photoshop.

I agree games do not see any real benefit from 4+ gigs but for professional users 4 gigs is the minimum. Some of my Illustrations alone are almost a gig in size while in progress and thats not even open.

h3llb3nd4 · Feb 26, 2009

TheMailMan78 said:
I can answer you with one word.....Photoshop.

I agree games do not see any real benefit from 4+ gigs but for professional users 4 gigs is the minimum. Some of my Illustrations alone are almost a gig in size while in progress and thats not even open.

yep thats right, I use Ps myself and it lags at our scholl because our school pcs only have 512mb

sweeper · Feb 26, 2009

spearman914 said:
$80 for 2GB DDR WTF??

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138125
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211356
LMAO!!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220079

:banghead:

mlee49 · Feb 26, 2009

I know DDR prices jumped recently due to somthing a while back(news article explained it here). Good news for selling that old DDR 400 in your back up rig, but bad news for upgrading your system.

DDR2 though is pennies on the dollar, you can get a 1GB stick for $12 online. Whats up with that?!

cdawall · Feb 26, 2009

i have personally maxed out 6GB running some HD rendering with revit and a house design

Fleck · Feb 26, 2009

cdawall said:
i have personally maxed out 6GB running some HD rendering with revit and a house design

REALLY!?!? WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT TAKES A LOT OF RAM TO RENDER HIGH DEF!!!

cdawall · Feb 26, 2009

Fleck said:
REALLY!?!? WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT TAKES A LOT OF RAM TO RENDER HIGH DEF!!!

i was just pointing it out there are instances that actually use more than 4GB. that was with dual 8800GTS 512s rendering as well.

oh and if you want to be an ass just to point it out that was a beyond stupid comment

Nick89 · Feb 27, 2009

cdawall said:
i was just pointing it out there are instances that actually use more than 4GB. that was with dual 8800GTS 512s rendering as well.

oh and if you want to be an ass just to point it out that was a beyond stupid comment

Did you read my post? I said more than 4GB is really not needed for 99% of games. I never said more than 4GB doesnt have a use for other programs.

DrPepper · Feb 27, 2009

Nick89 said:
Did you read my post? I said more than 4GB is really not needed for 99% of games. I never said more than 4GB doesnt have a use for other programs.

Still 99% of games don't need sli to run but we still do it

I'd rather be excessive than the bare minimum.

ntdouglas · Feb 28, 2009

Nick89 said:
Did you read my post? I said more than 4GB is really not needed for 99% of games. I never said more than 4GB doesnt have a use for other programs.

How do you know most games don't need more than 4GB of ram. You only have 4GB. Games know how much total system ram you have and adjust accordingly. A game is not going to use 4GB of ram when total system ram is 4GB. I have observed crysis using over 5GB of ram on my system. If you don't have more than 4GB of of total system ram you have no business posting that games don't use more than 4GB of ram. Don't believe me? Upgrade to 8GB of ram, then observe ram usage. Then stfu!!!!!! GAMES AND CERTAIN APPS WILL HOG AS MUCH RAM AS POSSIBLE WITHOUT CAUSING SYSTEM INSTABILITY. Shutup or upgrade and see for yourself if you don't believe us. God wtf!!!!

cdawall · Feb 28, 2009

Nick89 said:
Did you read my post? I said more than 4GB is really not needed for 99% of games. I never said more than 4GB doesnt have a use for other programs.

when i had 6GB in i watched 5GB get used in a couple games.

dna1x · Feb 28, 2009

cdawall said:
when i had 6GB in i watched 5GB get used in a couple games.

What were they? Crysis and Crysis Warhead?

Tau · Feb 28, 2009

TheMailMan78 said:
I can answer you with one word.....Photoshop.

I agree games do not see any real benefit from 4+ gigs but for professional users 4 gigs is the minimum. Some of my Illustrations alone are almost a gig in size while in progress and thats not even open.

I can chew up 4GBs of ram pretty fast and bring a machine to its knees.

SQL Server uses alot of ram.... i have seen it use upwards of 4GBs on some of my servers.

For my main workstation i have 8GBs in it, and find i would like more... as alot of times im working with 5+GB files....

eidairaman1 · Feb 28, 2009

well its one to be a Desktop Role and then a Server Role, Servers that use Win Servers tend to be heavier on the hardware side, aka 2way processing or higher, and no 1366 is not server just as much as the Xeon 1 ways were.

slyfox2151 · Feb 28, 2009

why do people keep posting about graphic/movie editing programs that use more then 4gb of ram when this thred is about gaming -.- wish people would read the 1st post.

anyway, i want 1 TB of ram to install my games on

, see what i did there, ram drives are related to gaming ^^. FASTOR LOADZZZ SPEDZZEEEEEE ZO I CAN OWN ZEEE NNEEEWWWEEEBBZZZ !! WIT MA 1337 HAXORS!

/end nerd mode

CDdude55 · Feb 28, 2009

Over 4GB(pushing 8GB) is overkill gaming wise, i could understand for something like a folding farm for something, or do a whole lot of photoshopping and video encoding.

J-Man · Feb 28, 2009

i agree. it's like core i7 owners... most or almost everyone get 6gb and that's fine for core i7 owners.

ste2425 · Feb 28, 2009

4 gigs will come in handy for allot of music producers using program like Reason and Logic also a decent sound card lol

InnocentCriminal · Feb 28, 2009

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