When will 2Gb of Memory be as necessary as 1Gb is now?

[bluemax]

I need 2gigs NOW - but that's because I run special music software that loads samples to RAM.

Garritan Personal Orchestra! Awesome!

 

[EGGO]

Need 2 GB for all of the video/3d/sound/photo editing I do now =0)

 

[dnuggett]

Originally posted by: JBT

Originally posted by: dnuggett

Originally posted by: JBT
For the people who consider 1GB to be required your nuts. 512MB is perfect for most as of now. For enthusiests yes 1GB is what we're shooting for just for that extra edge.... I suspect that once Longhorn is released regular users 1GB will be good and enthusiests will be seaking 2GB.

1GB is absolutely necessary for some of us.

Are you "most" or are you an "enthusiest?"

Originally posted by: RobertE1337


Kinda funny coming from the same person with a GB of ram in their rig.

I consider my self and enthusiest so I don't see whats so funny.

I am a person who considers 1GB to be required.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: mastertech01
64 bit Windows will probably be best run on 2GB. Base system startup takes about 300MB on my system with IIS etc. Minimum specs call for 1GB.

Good point, WoW64 absolutely ravages a computer's RAM usage numbers. I'm not sure 2GB is necessary yet, but 1.5GB may be the sweet spot now for people who are currently 1GB users under XP32.

 

[batmanuel]

Originally posted by: Safeway

This is sad. My old school had virtual machines in most places, they went piss ant slow because there was 8 GB of RAM on the central ... and 100+ stations.

Longhorn is going to require an insane amount of RAM. 3d tiling, transparencies, effects, blah.

Last I read, Avalon will be using DirectX to enable your graphics card to do most of the heavy lifting when it comes to rendering the UI elements. If it winds up working as well as the Quartz display engine does in OS X, then all the eye candy ought to have a minimal performance impact on a system with a decent DX9/10 hardware compatible card. A lot of the other new features of Longhorn will probably make 1GB of RAM the minimum you'll want to run, but the UI system might not actually add much to your memory usage if they can program it so that the video card is doing most of the work.

 

[Malak]

Nobody will ever need more than 640k.

 

[wchou]

after seeing this thread, i decided to downgrade to 256mb from 512mb
can't waste all this valuable memory on windows.

 

[dnuggett]

Originally posted by: Bill Gates
Nobody will ever need more than 640k.

 

[Viper96720]

Got to watch how you increase the ram also. Since some a64 boards clock down to 333mhz using more than 2 slots. At least most good boards you can override and clock it back up to 400mhz. Intel increases the latency.