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I upgraded to 24 gb of ram... What cool things can I do with it?

Open a spreadsheet and fill every cell of a worksheet with some junk data, such as a "1". Then make copies of that worksheet over and over until you fill your RAM.

Create a RAM drive, then create a virtual machine with the virtual hard drive on the RAM drive. Put an .iso of your operating system's install CD/DVD on the RAM drive. Then see how fast your OS installs and boots in the VM.
 
MustangSVT said:
waste of money as best you can do is post on forum about it 😀
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Well, if you must know... I picked up the 16 gb Corsair DDR3 that was a shell shocker the other day for another build I'm doing in a little bit. So, until then... I'm throwing 3 of the sticks in my system to go up to 24 GB because I can, at least until I get the other system.
 
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If you have a fast, multicore CPU and the patience to get the freeware/open sourceware Blender (www.blender.org) and luxrender (www.luxrender.net) up and running, they eat RAM for breakfast and make a pretty cool "computer toy" even if you never figure out most of what they can do. Takes a little while to get everything installed and working together, though...
 
I bough 16GB from the last weeks shell shocker, the increase in the pagefile.sys almost took up my entire OS drive (partitioned SSD) so I had to take 2 sticks out... I never used more than 3.3 GB of memory anyways... :biggrin: But I am thinking about ramdrive and also look at FancyCache, looks interesting!
 
DesiPower said:
I bough 16GB from the last weeks shell shocker, the increase in the pagefile.sys almost took up my entire OS drive (partitioned SSD) so I had to take 2 sticks out... I never used more than 3.3 GB of memory anyways... :biggrin: But I am thinking about ramdrive and also look at FancyCache, looks interesting!
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If you have that much RAM, you could always disable your page file or manually set it at a value.
 
Yep! I've never had a page file that big. If you keep the case open, you may be able to cut down on your heating bill this winter. 🙂
 
DesiPower said:
oh, I didnt know you could do that! If disabling is an option I would definitely like to do that. Will do some research... thanks!
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There are supposedly some programs that will crash with it disabled, when I went from 4 GB to 12 GB, I limited windows virtual mem to 1 GB, I think.

I tried Fancycache. Big difference in performance with 6GB on Fancycache if I turned on delayed writes, but you risk some corruption if, say, your system crashes while delaying a write. Didn't see as big a performance benefit if I didn't enable that option. Given they are likely to come up with a final version soon (and thus it will cost money) I probably won't use it long term.
 
Concillian said:
There are supposedly some programs that will crash with it disabled, when I went from 4 GB to 12 GB, I limited windows virtual mem to 1 GB, I think.

I tried Fancycache. Big difference in performance with 6GB on Fancycache if I turned on delayed writes, but you risk some corruption if, say, your system crashes while delaying a write. Didn't see as big a performance benefit if I didn't enable that option. Given they are likely to come up with a final version soon (and thus it will cost money) I probably won't use it long term.
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I run without a page file and only have 12gigs of ram. Heh only 🙂
 
Concillian said:
There are supposedly some programs that will crash with it disabled
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There aren't any. But disabling the page file does prevent crash dumps in the event of a BSOD. But most people don't know how to analyze and debug using a dump, so that's effectively moot.
 
Rifterut said:
big ramdisk for your porn collection.
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But then I'd lose it everytime I shut down!!!

TemjinGold said:
OP: The coolest thing you can do with it is build 3 systems. 😀
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Heh, that's actually what's going to happen. I'm going to be building a second system with it, I just haven't gotten the second system yet. I'm not entirely sure what I want to build (wait for 2011 to mature a bit and build a 2011 system to replace my 1366, or upgrade my second system to 1155 from AMD DDR2 based system).
 
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