Too much RAM?

[Doc Flabby]

i think quite a few motherboards will support up 64Gb of ram but only certain verisons of windows (like enterprise server or somethin) and *nix will be able to use the ram :P For desktop computing and gaming 2GB or 3GB is a good amount to have....

i didnt design the flabby website - im not that good :P

[Barton]

oh ok I was wrong, learned something new today

fair do u got 2 virus scaners running? like norton & avist?

[geekbot]

CPU is involved in everything but it is generally fast enough that memory/HD are the bottlenecks. The exception is when the CPU has to chug through a lot of calculations/data. Dealing with intensive graphics, processing music/video are some examples.

In general, yes you can't have too much RAM. The biggest reason is that RAM can be used as a cache for HD accesses (which are *really, really* slow). Anything that comes from HD might be sped up by RAM. Not enough RAM means stuff will be pushed into virtual memory (on to the slow HD). If you are editting a music/video file and the entire thing can fit in RAM, you will be better off than having the data swap on and off the HD. If you are running many applications, having as much of the application code fitting into RAM will speed things up- especially switching between apps.

My suggestion would be to get as much as is reasonable. Usually there's a price point when it starts getting really expensive at the high end (the 1 or 2G on a stick range as of early 2005). So you found a deal on 512- it wouldn't be bad to get as many as you have slots for.

A faster HD could speed things up (like boot sequence). Optimizing the HD (look for defrag/speed optimizing programs) could help too.

[Fallen Angel]

i think quite a few motherboards will support up 64Gb of ram but only certain verisons of windows (like enterprise server or somethin) and *nix will be able to use the ram :P For desktop computing and gaming 2GB or 3GB is a good amount to have....

i didnt design the flabby website - im not that good :P

32-bit Windows versions that utilize Physical Adress Extension can make use of addtional address lines and 36-bit page tables to address a maximum of 64 GB of RAM, but every application is still limited to the 4 GB ceiling.
The extra 60 GB can be used by various processes, but no one process can access it all simultaniously.

That's where the 64-bit platform comes in.

[Doc Flabby]

32-bit Windows versions that utilize Physical Adress Extension can make use of addtional address lines and 36-bit page tables to address a maximum of 64 GB of RAM, but every application is still limited to the 4 GB ceiling.
The extra 60 GB can be used by various processes, but no one process can access it all simultaniously.

someones been reading the micro$oft website <_<

[Rab]

256 is enough for word processing and ss.
i wouldnt have less than 512.
i have 768 in this... 256 it came with + another 512.

for 3d gaming, dont have less than a gig.

just dont buy ram that's slower than your processor/motherboard. e.g. if you have a amd 3200, that's 400MHz in ram terms. so if u bought 333MHz ram it would be slower than 400MHz ram. buying anything more than 400MHz would be a waste, because your processor would only run it at 400MHz.

consider upgrades, if you have a spare slot just buy another 512 for it, because they're best value for money atm. you'll probably want 400MHz. I bought a 400MHz 512 ebuyer extra value shitstick and it's been perfect.

[Money]

HAHA i have 192 mb ram 400 mhz celeron and 64 mb vid card and i can play americas army and enemy territory fine, so stop with the bullshit of 3d gaming with no less than a gig or ram, LAFF

[tahkis]

HAHA i have 192 mb ram 400 mhz celeron and 64 mb vid card and i can play americas army and enemy territory fine, so stop with the bullshit of 3d gaming with no less than a gig or ram, LAFF

America's army minimun requirements are P3-766MHz, 128mb RAM, 32mb gf2 - recommended requirements are P4-1.4GHz, 256mb RAM, 64mb gf2.

ET minimum requirements are P3-600MHz, 128mb RAM, 32mb 3d card.

I agree with you in that "bullshitting with less that 1Gb" because you also need good CPU, motherboard and graphics card to play. Or at least I do not enjoy playing new games with less that 1024x768, mostly they just look too horrible - especially FPS'. I bet you have the highest graphics options on and the games looks amazing......not.

[Fallen Angel]

someones been reading the micro$oft website <_<

Remnants from my Windows 2000 Server Operation course actually!
You have no idea how much utterly pointless information I crammed into my brain during that course...
So I naturally jump at the chance to use it whenever the oppertunity presents itself :fear:

[Doc Flabby]

Remnants from my Windows 2000 Server Operation course actually!
You have no idea how much utterly pointless information I crammed into my brain during that course...
So I naturally jump at the chance to use it whenever the oppertunity presents itself :fear:

lol

[Subjugation]

Omg, thank you for all the replies!

Cool, then I'm glad I got that extra stick. I have noticed a faster boot, and fewer problems toggling between applications. When I added the extra stick, I accidentally unplugged my DVD and CD-R from my mobo, and didn't realize it. So the next day I thought I totally fucked up my system, because Windows wasn't recognizing my CD player! Lol, I quickly noticed the problem, but I was worried for a good 10 minutes.

[Rab]

HAHA i have 192 mb ram 400 mhz celeron and 64 mb vid card and i can play americas army and enemy territory fine, so stop with the bullshit of 3d gaming with no less than a gig or ram, LAFF

that doesnt sound right to me, but i'm just speaking from my own experience. dont have a cow.

[Money]

America's army minimun requirements are P3-766MHz, 128mb RAM, 32mb gf2 - recommended requirements are P4-1.4GHz, 256mb RAM, 64mb gf2.

ET minimum requirements are P3-600MHz, 128mb RAM, 32mb 3d card.

I agree with you in that "bullshitting with less that 1Gb" because you also need good CPU, motherboard and graphics card to play. Or at least I do not enjoy playing new games with less that 1024x768, mostly they just look too horrible - especially FPS'. I bet you have the highest graphics options on and the games looks amazing......not.

haha no its on lowest setting but its playable and i aimbot in wolf cuz sometimes it gets choppy but i dont mind :/