can you justify having that gig of RAM?

[dug777]

I can, much smoother in games, easy dropping out of big apps, generally makes my rig seem a million bucks

 

[ThePresence]

I can. I do freelance graphic design.

 

[Albis]

sure, i love running multiple windows of Firefox open, with random PDFs, and lots of random stuff

ram is great. it makes all computers seem faster if they have 1gb of ram or more

 

[amol]

Smoother in games, multiple instances, multiple programs

RAM is one of those things where more is always better

 

[jagec]

I can...I got it on sale

 

[So]

most certainly.

 

[intogamer]

1gb is no good since I have pc2100

 

[ponyo]

With ram prices these days, do you even need to justify it?

 

[Chaotic42]

Games
Linux
Photoshop

 

[aircooled]

yep, i have 1.5 and love it. I can feel the difference.

 

[b0mbrman]

Nope! I have it and probably never do anything that would warrant more than 512 mb...

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

At $90 for my gig, it wasn't a big deal for me.

 

[gsaldivar]

Originally posted by: Naustica
With ram prices these days, do you even need to justify it?

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: b0mbrman
Nope! I have it and probably never do anything that would warrant more than 512 mb...

glad to hear someones speaking up for the 513MB contingent

 

[Mallow]

I only use 300 of my 512 so... I'm not making the jump.

 

[Trygve]

I've got two gig in each of the two workstations I normally use, and I'm sure I could use more than that. Sometimes I've got full-page four-color magazine ads to do and posters up to six feet wide to do in Photoshop and when you're previewing from memory in After Effects, every bit of memory helps.

 

[kreactor]

with 1gig of ram i don't even use a swap file

 

[suse920]

yes... because it is blue

 

[HardcoreRobot]

WoW

 

[Schrodinger]

I usually flatline at around 600MB when I'm programming with all my resources open. I don't use a full GB but I need more than 512MB for sure.

(I'll have Oracle DB and Tomcat going while working in JDeveloper with winamp playing music and a few firefox instances and tabs going with 3-4 command shells open)

 

[Pciber]

Originally posted by: Albis
ram is great. it makes all computers seem faster if they have 1gb of ram or more

actually I find the turning point for windows XP is 768mb. I've had a gb of ram, then i had to sell 256mb, still ran about the same. Then I sold another 256mb, and it was noticably slower. next week i am buying another 512mb stick to get back up to 1gb, though >_<

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Schrodinger
I usually flatline at around 500-600 when I'm programming with all my resources open. I don't use a full GB but I need more than 512MB for sure.

i've seen farcry eat up 800MB plus, hl2 can get greedy sometimes too...

 

[Juno]

1gig of ram for an art major. 'nuff said.

 

[Clandestiny]

Sims 2.

 

[BudAshes]

when i was running 3 swg apps at once it definintely helped.