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12gb of ram is better than an SSD in a way

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SickBeast

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I'm not saying that SSDs are bad or that they're not useful; I'm just sharing my experience with having 12gb of ram for a week or so now.

What I'm finding is that so long as I avoid restarting my computer, all of my apps and games load up pretty much instantaneously. Instead of shutting down, I put my computer into "sleep" mode. I'm primarily playing 2 games right now, and when I open them up now, the hard drive activity light doesn't even come on.

So, I guess what I'm saying is that for a lot of people, a $50 investment in 8gb of ram can work out to be a poor man's SSD in a way. You also get the added benefit of better performance in several programs.
 
SickBeast said:
I'm not saying that SSDs are bad or that they're not useful; I'm just sharing my experience with having 12gb of ram for a week or so now.

What I'm finding is that so long as I avoid restarting my computer, all of my apps and games load up pretty much instantaneously. Instead of shutting down, I put my computer into "sleep" mode. I'm primarily playing 2 games right now, and when I open them up now, the hard drive activity light doesn't even come on.

So, I guess what I'm saying is that for a lot of people, a $50 investment in 8gb of ram can work out to be a poor man's SSD in a way. You also get the added benefit of better performance in several programs.
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Not every program loads everything into memory, and many programs have memory leaks that you would not running continuously in memory in the first place. Games are especially notorious for having mem leaks.
 
HumblePie said:
Not every program loads everything into memory, and many programs have memory leaks that you would not running continuously in memory in the first place. Games are especially notorious for having mem leaks.
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With 12gb of ram I'm not going to cry about it if some of my apps have memory leaks. Heck, your storm trooper is taking a leak as well. :hmm:
 
Nintendesert said:
You pee sitting down?
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lol

SickBeast said:
I'm not saying that SSDs are bad or that they're not useful; I'm just sharing my experience with having 12gb of ram for a week or so now.

What I'm finding is that so long as I avoid restarting my computer, all of my apps and games load up pretty much instantaneously. Instead of shutting down, I put my computer into "sleep" mode. I'm primarily playing 2 games right now, and when I open them up now, the hard drive activity light doesn't even come on.

So, I guess what I'm saying is that for a lot of people, a $50 investment in 8gb of ram can work out to be a poor man's SSD in a way. You also get the added benefit of better performance in several programs.
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Depends on what you do on the machine once you hit an I/O bottleneck your machine will feel as slow any other system with a hard drive regardless of how much memory is in it.

Overall I do agree with you more ram is always good!
 
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I agree with SickBeast though that with RAM prices so low and deals going on all the time there's a great opportunity now for people to upgrade to what used to be insane amounts of RAM and greatly benefit their performance until the prices of SSDs come down more.
 
I agree in the context of cheap ram prices. When it's cheap, buy!
I can't wait to get my first SSD though and I only have 4GB of ram.
 
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