What use is 1gb of RAM?

[Commando223]

What would this be good for would it help games or windows?

 

[MustPost]

Running Windows XP Doom3 and a couple ie windows at the same time while rendering 3D art would slow you down. If you had a very fast Proc of course.

 

[Rand]

It depends entirely on what your using your system for. For the vast majority of users 1GB of RAM would be waaaaay excessive, but many servers, CAD users, heavy graphics rendering in PhotoShop, etc. could easily make use of it.

 

[Buz2b]

You must have an operating system that can use that amount of RAM also. Win98SE/WinMe and below cannot do this to any effecient degree and may even slow if this much RAM is installed.

 

[Smokey0066]

thats funny, i just had a debate with my buddy last night who installed 1.2 gigs of ram in his box, a Tb900, winme. apparently he can tell the difference a whole lot. but the only thing he does is surf, chat, starcraft...

anyways.. just thought i'd share

 

[Regalk]

Its a feeling you get when you load up so much RAM - you want to believe that the system will fly and so it will fly despite the limitations of Win98/WinMe. Now Win2K is a whole new different ball game.

 

[Useless2]

I use it for a RAM Drive.

 

[Need4Speed]

yup ram drive is one thing i use it on too....our ultra 60 boxes here at work come with a minimum of 1gb ram, but for gamin in win98 or even win2k it would be overkill

 

[SinNisTeR]

id use it for drooling purposes

 

[SilverThief]

Bragging rights.

 

[bookster]

in win2k could you not set up a 512meg ramdisk and use that as your swapfile?

Seems that would speed up something.

 

[HarveyFish]

A couple of good uses for that much RAM:

Running virtual machines with a ton of dedicated RAM makes them quick.
Install your favorite first person shooter or resource-intense application in a RAM drive. Slows down system startup but it's quickly gained back in application peformance.
Set temp file storage to the RAM drive in various applications that use them.
Stockpiling for an increase in RAM prices.

 

[isometry]

The main reason to have 1GB when you're using a decent OS (*nix, Win2k/XP) is file cacheing.
It becomes noticeable even if you only use your machine for the lightest tasks.
'nuff said.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

<< What would this be good for would it help games or windows? >>

It's of no use whatsoever......you should give it to me.

 

[MustPost]

lol

 

[thraxes]

If you do video editing, 3d rendering or alot of photoshop, then it is very useful... otherwise it is really just bragging rights and self delusion that you have spent all those $$$ wisely

 

[Jeff7]

I'd second the idea to use a RAMdrive utility. I use a 24MB RAMdrive on my laptop to store temporary internet files. If you have a LOT of temp files or stuff that you only use in the time the computer is on, then use a RAM drive.

 

[JackBurton]

Screw the ram drive, install Return to Castle Wolfenstein on Windows 2000 Pro and watch it eat up MOST of your memory. During game play, I'm using ~470MB of ram!!! And I "only" have 512MB! :Q

 

[snow patrol]

yeah, RTCW is a real ram-hog :|

 

[Aboroth]

In Netscape you could set your memory cache to 50MB or something then set your disk cache to 0.

 

[gogeeta13]

I emailed the RTCW guys, that mem usage is a bug, it is apparently using all available ram up, some sort of memory leak bug. Let me see if I can get a link