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What to do with extra 4Gb of RAM

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AstroGuardian

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Well my friend purchased 2 x 4Gb Apacer DDR3-1333 memory modules for his H55 board from Biostar but it didn't support 4Gb modules.

So he asked for my 2 x 2Gb DDR3-1333 Kingstons. I gave those to him so he gave me his 2 x 4Gb Apacers.

So now i have 8Gb of RAM. What the hell am i supposed to do with 8 gigs of RAM? I do gaming, writing documents, and running some virtual machines every now and then. Is there any Windows 7 tweaks so that it uses (caches) more RAM and runs faster cause of that?
Anything i can use 8gigs of ram for?
 
A ramdisk or you could just leave it alone and know that you have reserve ram should you ever need it. 🙂
 
AstroGuardian said:
Well i have the RAM installed. But Windows still uses approximately 1,2-1,4 gigabytes.
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The rest is automatically used as cache by turbo boost. notice that the rest is listed as AVAILABLE rather then FREE... (it can be instantly discarded when needed).

and windows itself doesn't have any need to use more ram itself, its programs that use more ram. don't worry about it, programs will.
 
You can enable Large System Cache ,, any tweak program will do that. Or regedit and search for

LargeSystemCache and change the 0 to 1. gg and gl
 
tweakboy said:
You can enable Large System Cache ,, any tweak program will do that. Or regedit and search for

LargeSystemCache and change the 0 to 1. gg and gl
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thats for windows XP and 2003. he uses windows 7
seriously, all he has to do is insert it... and make sure he is using win7x64 and not x32
 
AstroGuardian said:
Well my friend purchased 2 x 4Gb Apacer DDR3-1333 memory modules for his H55 board from Biostar but it didn't support 4Gb modules.

So he asked for my 2 x 2Gb DDR3-1333 Kingstons. I gave those to him so he gave me his 2 x 4Gb Apacers.

So now i have 8Gb of RAM. What the hell am i supposed to do with 8 gigs of RAM?
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We all need friends like that! 😎
 
Emulex said:
most apps like cs5 has autoloaders to page in the apps so they launch faster.
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And most of them interfere more than they help. Developers should stop creating those to duct tape over their shitty apps and just let the system do it's thing.
 
load up VMware workstartion and run a couple more computers on your system. It's fun and easy...and will eat up your extra RAM fast.
 
Ms. DICKINSON said:
How much do you wanna sell for?
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Wouldn't sell any. That way the memory will run in single channel which will take a couple of milliseconds but also take away some 50% of memory write and read speed... Wouldn't want to loose that. My sistem is THE fastest in AIDA64 memory benchmarks :smirk:
 
I don't get this thread. Was it just to smirk and show that you had 8GB in your system? I've been running 8GB in both of my home systems for the past three years. 8GB is not anything to brag about. Every time I build a new system, I usually 1.5x to 2x double the memory of my past systems. You can never have too much memory. Even though the O/S only uses part of it, the rest is for apps. You always want more memory than you will use, so nothing gets swapped out to HDD.

Oh, and on our servers at work we have 256GB memory in them and a hard drive array of 2TB (48 drives) in RAID50. So 8GB is nothing really, not even for consumers. I laugh at all the netbooks and laptops I see with 1-2GB of memory. That is barely enough these days to load the O/S.
 
Nothinman said:
Only if you're talking about Windows...
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no, for any OS. Modern up to date distros of linux, solaris, and macOS also benefit from more than 1 pathetic GB of RAM.

And windows CAN run with that little ram, its just not recommended.

The OS can take 0MB of ram and 1GB will still not be enough simply because applications consume a lot of ram today.
 
taltamir said:
no, for any OS. Modern up to date distros of linux, solaris, and macOS also benefit from more than 1 pathetic GB of RAM.

And windows CAN run with that little ram, its just not recommended.

The OS can take 0MB of ram and 1GB will still not be enough simply because applications consume a lot of ram today.
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Of course they can benefit from it, but Windows definitely has a larger footprint than Linux as long as you don't run something fat like Gnome or KDE. No, I wouldn't want to run either with that little memory, but I'd choose Linux over Windows in a 1-2G situation any day.
 
but Windows definitely has a larger footprint than Linux as long as you don't run something fat like Gnome or KDE
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so are you assuming that everyone who uses linux runs a command line distro with no GUI?
or do you mean x?
 
MrCoyote said:
I don't get this thread. Was it just to smirk and show that you had 8GB in your system? I've been running 8GB in both of my home systems for the past three years. 8GB is not anything to brag about. Every time I build a new system, I usually 1.5x to 2x double the memory of my past systems. You can never have too much memory. Even though the O/S only uses part of it, the rest is for apps. You always want more memory than you will use, so nothing gets swapped out to HDD.

Oh, and on our servers at work we have 256GB memory in them and a hard drive array of 2TB (48 drives) in RAID50. So 8GB is nothing really, not even for consumers. I laugh at all the netbooks and laptops I see with 1-2GB of memory. That is barely enough these days to load the O/S.
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Way off topic mate. I was smirking about my system winning all the memory benchmarks in AIDA64 (Former Everest Ultimate) and not the amount of RAM.
You are also mixing oranges and apples. I can't believe you are comparing a server and a netbook. To be honest your servers at work are a bunch of pussycats compared to mainframes i have seen in the past...
 
taltamir said:
so are you assuming that everyone who uses linux runs a command line distro with no GUI?
or do you mean x?
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I'm assuming nothing, but there are lighter weight alternatives to Gnome and KDE. I personally run E16 at home but there are others.
 
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