Anyone have more than 1gig of RAM?

[charliebrown]

Thinking of upgrading my machine to 1.5g of RAM - I have 512mb now. Just wondering if there would be much of a performance increase...

(Running Windows 2000 on a P4 1.5ghz machine)

 

[LaLaLand]

I dont

 

[SWirth86]

Why would you need that much?

256 is fine for me...

 

[Digobick]

I have 1,024MB, so I guess you can count that.

 

[pyonir]

i have 384. i had 128 before sunday.

 

[Electrode]

1.5 GB in my main rig. Once you've tried >1GB you can't go back.

 

[spidey07]

yeah, 1024 in my laptop. guess that doesn' count?

I rarely use more than 512 physical memory.

 

[Atlantean]

Nope but I will when I build a new comp this summer, I am thinking two 1024 meg sticks of ddr ram.

 

[Codewiz]

Originally posted by: SWirth86
Why would you need that much?

256 is fine for me...

I had 512MB of PC133 but then I upgraded to a new CPU so I had to get DDR and I only had money for 256MB. Man 256MB hurts....virtual memory gets hit so much more now.

 

[Goosemaster]

panzies

 

[Goosemaster]

<---jealous

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: Digobick
I have 1,024MB, so I guess you can count that.

 

[GoingUp]

people say you never need that much, but seriously its amazing. Especially when working in photoshop and illustrator

 

[IBuyUFO]

I have 1.5 gigs. My scanner takes up 1 gig of ram doing its thing. I have a canon fs4000 scanner set at hi res so I need all the ram I can get.

 

[FenrisUlf]

I've got 1.5 gig in my Natural Selection server. It's a real RAM pig, but that's probably overkill. If you use Adobe Premeire or other video editing software it definitely helps, but more than 512MB is overkill now.

 

[Jmman]

I have three 1Gig DDR chips in my main rig.....bwahahahahahahahhahaha........

 

[n0cmonkey]

384 -iBook
512 -Athlon 1800
32 -ss10
128 -ultra 10

And depending on which chips I bought a year or so ago either 512 or 1024 in my soon to be rebuilt dual p3.

 

[Sundog]

1.5 GB Main rig

1 GB Backup rig

 

[HokieESM]

I do in two of the machines in my house at the moment (a dual P3-S with 2GB of PC133, and a P4 2.26 with 1.5GB of PC1066). Honestly, it doesn't help 90% of the time for me..... there are only a FEW applications where it makes a difference. But boy does it make a difference then--anything that will prevent swapping to the HDD is great.

Before you upgrade, just look at your RAM usage for a few days in Task Manager. If you're not going over your limit, then don't do it--spend your money elsewhere. I had a VERY specific use in mind when I added that much RAM to those machines.

 

[toant103]

i have 1024MB. Can't really tell after 512

 

[Sukhoi]

Dude, get a new processor! P4 1.5 GHz...eww. :Q

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: FenrisUlf
I've got 1.5 gig in my Natural Selection server. It's a real RAM pig, but that's probably overkill. If you use Adobe Premeire or other video editing software it definitely helps, but more than 512MB is overkill now.

Hot damn. You run an NS server?

PM me the IP when you get a chance and I'll stop by sometime.

- M4H

 

[waggy]

unless you use photoshop or some other mem hog you wont see a diffrence in perfomance past 512.

i wouldnt go below 512 myself. but no need right now to go above 1gig.

 

[Red Dawn]

I did but it was overkill so I went back down to 512 meg

 

[BAMAVOO]

2 512's and Photoshop loves it