omfg how much ram is enough

[kami]

I currently have 768MB and sometimes I use it all, but that is in memory intensive apps. Say if i was doing work in Photoshop and Premiere at the same time. I have another slot so I'll probably just go to a gig...why not? it's freakin $35 canadian for 256mb

 

[Nefrodite]

Project64 has got to be the best N64 emulator. I only have 256 in my computer now, and my last computer only had 128 and I was fine with that.

hm kewl, kinda ot but does the thing use direct x now? i've been outa the emu scene so i'm clueless.. last i knew they needed damned glide to d3d wrappers which sucked can it run all games? what kinda system do you need

 

[CStroman]

It does directx and opengl. I play Zelda64 and Goldeneye, mostly, because I only have three ROMs. It ran fine with my Athlon and 128 MB of RAM and GF2MX, and runs fine with my current system. I am aware that this is thread crapping, so I will say no more about emulators here.

 

[cuteybunny]

even a celeron capable of addressing up to 4gig, pIII up to 8gig of ram so I don't think 1gig is too much.
I think 256megs and 512meg are soon to be obsolete. more ram is good you can do more without having to swap to harddrive slowing thing down to a crawl.

 

[Jerboy]

<< I went to a Circuit City the other day and I saw a system with 1GB of ram. It had windows XP on it and no memory intensive apps like photo editing or something. btw it was an AMD XP system for around 2 grand. When do you think we will need 1GB? I have half that and I barely use 256MB of it when I have 15 ie windows open im running windows XP also. >>



Every day, computer gets fatter fatter and fatter in terms of storage/memory capacity and storage/memory demands. Unfortunately the days of doing simple task with 32MB is approaching its end.

Buying a computer is like climbing up an escalator thats going down.

You have to run very fast(pay alot) to get to the top, but you'll soon creep down to the bottom.

Many computers are fated to being under-used after a year or two.

Incidentally this is what's up with my Intel Inside machine poor thing.

Anyone remember placing your previous machine like that once you had the current machine?

 

[Ionizer86]

Project 64 does D3D now, which is very good. It is heavily CPU dependant; the video card is only good for rendering the graphics. I'm using a Tbird 1.0 and it emulates at full speed. Since I've got a GTS-V card, I can even run it at 1280x960 4x FSAA without taking a speed hit

My current box has 384mb ram, which I feel is plenty for running lotsa stuff. BTW, try holding down Win+ E for a few seconds to launch 50 or so explorer windows (only do this with WinXP so that you can kill them all at once). All those Explorer windows only use ~50mb of ram

 

[gopunk]

actually while we're on the topic, it's interesting, becuase i was reading an article... it was talking about how the computers get more and more powerful, but the programs don't get any more efficient or anything. interesting.

 

[SinNisTeR]

<< I frequently have the bulk of my 512 used. >>



me too.. winxp uses more than win2k and win2k still handles memory better.

 

[GreenLantern]

RAM is no longer cheap
I paid $32 for 256MB DDR2100 cas 2.5 from Crucial 2 months ago and now it's almost $60! Glad I got it but wish I would have bought more.

This is sucks pretty bad. Any one know if prices will come around again - any insights?

I'd say a gig of ram will be 'recommended' by alot of apps (and M$'s next OS) in less than 1.5 years.