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TheMailMan78 · Nov 16, 2010, 11:56 AM

I work in Photoshop professionally and I used to run 8 gigs of RAM. I NEVER used it up. I went down to 4gigs for speed reasons. Even when I am working on major files 4 gigs is plenty. Hell I have TPU open, Bridge, iTunes, Illustrator and Photoshop with a 1gig file open right now and I am sitting at 70% with 4gigs.

System Name:	The Mailbox 3.5
Processor:	Intel i7 2600k @ 3.8GHz
Motherboard:	ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z
Cooling:	Stock
Memory:	G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB DDR3 1866: 9-9-9-24
Video Card:	EVGA GTX670 "FTW" Edition @ 1006MHz
Hard Disk:	256gb M4 SSD, 500Gb WD (7200)
Optical Drive:	LG - 24x Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive
CRT/LCD Model:	24" ASUS 1920 x 1080
Case:	Cooler Master 922 HAF
Sound Card:	SupremeFX X-Fi 2 with Bose Companion 2 speakers.
PSU:	SeaSonic X Series X650 Gold
Software:	Windows 8 Pro w/Media Center 64bit
Benchmarks:	Benching is for bitches.

Nov 16, 2010, 11:56 AM	#7
TheMailMan78 Banstick Dummy Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Crystal River, FL Posts: 15,142 (6.85/day) Thanks: 1,337 Thanked 6,861 Times in 3,752 Posts System Specs	I work in Photoshop professionally and I used to run 8 gigs of RAM. I NEVER used it up. I went down to 4gigs for speed reasons. Even when I am working on major files 4 gigs is plenty. Hell I have TPU open, Bridge, iTunes, Illustrator and Photoshop with a 1gig file open right now and I am sitting at 70% with 4gigs.