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2gbs of ram
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Certain applications use a certain amount of RAM. Games use lots of RAM, photoshop and dreamweaver use a lot of RAM, you get the idea. Today, you could order 1gb of RAM and your PC would probably only utelize 3/4 of it if you played games and multitasked. I havn't heard of many people that use over 1gb at any point, but I have heard that knocking at the door, 100% utleization produces too much heat even for the heatspreaders, so if you can, 2gb is ideal. It would make your PC great for a while. If not (and I feel for you, the prices of RAM are ridiculous) don't worry about it, your pc experience probably won't take a hit, for now.
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Certain applications use a certain amount of RAM. Games use lots of RAM, photoshop and dreamweaver use a lot of RAM, you get the idea. Today, you could order 1gb of RAM and your PC would probably only utelize 3/4 of it if you played games and multitasked. I havn't heard of many people that use over 1gb at any point, but I have heard that knocking at the door, 100% utleization produces too much heat even for the heatspreaders, so if you can, 2gb is ideal. It would make your PC great for a while. If not (and I feel for you, the prices of RAM are ridiculous) don't worry about it, your pc experience probably won't take a hit, for now.
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It depends what you do.
I'm at work right now, sunday night 🙁 on a machine with only 1GB of RAM, 3Ghz P4 HT - my PageFile is 1.5GB and I am using pretty much all my physical memory... and my system is dog slow, all that with only SQL Server Developer 2005, 2 instances of Visual Studio, Outlook, MS Access, various other little things like MSDN Library, Textpad and firefox open. Switching tasks takes 5-10 seconds (like to the other instance of Visual Studio), so for me 2GB of RAM would sure help alot!
I'll be getting a new machine later this year, waiting for Core 2 Quad, and it'll probably have 4GB of RAM.
I'm at work right now, sunday night 🙁 on a machine with only 1GB of RAM, 3Ghz P4 HT - my PageFile is 1.5GB and I am using pretty much all my physical memory... and my system is dog slow, all that with only SQL Server Developer 2005, 2 instances of Visual Studio, Outlook, MS Access, various other little things like MSDN Library, Textpad and firefox open. Switching tasks takes 5-10 seconds (like to the other instance of Visual Studio), so for me 2GB of RAM would sure help alot!
I'll be getting a new machine later this year, waiting for Core 2 Quad, and it'll probably have 4GB of RAM.
AlgaeEater
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Yeah, running out of ram is bad. So more Ram means happier you.
Seriously though, no disadvantages of having 2 gigs now a days. Well, 512 x 4 sticks is a bit flakier than 1GB x 2 sticks, but that's it.
Seriously though, no disadvantages of having 2 gigs now a days. Well, 512 x 4 sticks is a bit flakier than 1GB x 2 sticks, but that's it.
If you ever plan on using VMware, Parallels Workstation, MS Virtual PC, or any other virtualization software, you're going to want all the RAM you can get. Of course you can probably make do with 512 MB total but the speed will make you cry. It's nice being able to allocate 1GB to the host and 1GB to the guest OS. Personally I do 1.5GB host and 512MB guest.
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