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

yeah, especially when longhorn comes out with all the eye candy, bells, whistles and pretty pictures
 
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.
 
Web surfer - 5mb ram haha jk.. 128-256, how patient you are with multiple windows & disk swapping

Typical windows web/word/excel user - 256-512

Typical low end gamer - 512

High - 512-1024

Money burner 1024-2048

Workgroup Server - 1024-2048
Mid range server - 2048-4096
High end - 4096-8192
Multi Virtual Machine servers - 4096-32768

These are based on XP & Windows 2003
 
Originally posted by: forcesho
Web surfer - 5mb ram haha jk.. 128-256, how patient you are with multiple windows & disk swapping

Typical windows web/word/excel user - 256-512

Typical low end gamer - 512

High - 512-1024

Money burner 1024-2048

Workgroup Server - 1024-2048
Mid range server - 2048-4096
High end - 4096-8192
Multi Virtual Machine servers - 4096-32768

These are based on XP & Windows 2003
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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.
 
There has been a lot of web sites now thats been soaking up RAM with Java and languages under the .NET framework. I'm sure they are just going to increase and increase.
 
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.
 
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.
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1GB is absolutely necessary for some of us.
 
When 64bit is commonplace, workstation boards will typically be capable of 256GB of RAM and 4-8GB will be commonplace. Sound familiar?

In 2009 there will be posts like "512GB or 1024GB HDR64K?"

Cheers!
 
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.
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Kinda funny coming from the same person with a GB of ram in their rig.
 
1 Gig is not required, but does make life easier. Games would simply just have to do a little more swapping with 512. Not enough to make a performance impact. Maybe faster load times when a whole level of a game loads up into RAM like the ones you see in D3 and Far Cry, however not the loads you see in HL2.

That's all 1 Gig of ram is used for games as of right now - the memory controller can request a bigger chunk of data to have it stored in RAM from the hard drive at any given time. Think of it as a conveyer belt of data going from your hard drive - ram - Northbridge (nonA64) - to CPU. When data has been unused in the RAM for so much time it lets it go and allows the newly requested data from the hard drive in. Having one gig of memory just means it can store data that was recently used for longer time period.

The thing is - No game has been made yet that would require this much ram to be swapping data in and out so fast that the conveyer belt would be in disarray.
 
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.
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1GB is absolutely necessary for some of us.
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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.
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I consider my self and enthusiest so I don't see whats so funny.
 
EQ2 gets a Huge game alterting boost from using 2gigs of ram over 1. Not to mention what epic is doing with the unreal 3 engine. with longhorn and next-gen engine 1 gig is going to be minimum and 2 optimal
 
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