Posted on 04/11/2015 11:25:09 AM PDT by Utilizer
Typically, today’s budget PCs come with 4GB of RAM. A mid-range configuration may offer double that, and high-end gaming systems and workstations go as high as 16GB or more.
There’s no doubt which way the wind’s blowing, either: Windows 8 supports up to 128GB of physical memory (assuming you’re running the 64-bit edition), while Windows 8 Pro can go up to 512GB.
Does anyone really need this much RAM? Memory isn’t as expensive as it used to be, but there’s obviously no point paying for gigabytes of RAM from which you’ll receive no material gain.
Does more equal faster?
Many people assume that adding memory makes a PC significantly faster, and in some cases it does. Sticking an extra pair of DIMMs into a motherboard won’t change the speed at which the processor executes code, but it can help in other ways, especially on older systems with 2GB of RAM or less, since adding RAM reduces the need for Windows to rely on “virtual memory”.
Simply put, virtual memory is a file on your hard disk that serves as temporary storage when your PC’s “real” memory is full. Virtual memory makes it possible, for example, to have several heavyweight applications running at once, even if they won’t fit simultaneously in RAM. When you switch from one to another, Windows quickly swaps the relevant data from the disk into real memory, which explains why the virtual memory file is sometimes called a swap file. If you’ve set Windows Explorer to show hidden files, you can see the swap file in the root directory of your system disk; depending on which version of Windows you’re using, it will be called pagefile.sys or swapfile.sys.
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2GB. it was a typo. several already pointed that out.
The Samsung people say their products don't need Trim, OWC says their's don't either, who to believe....
My Mac Pro won't even recognize a Mavericks startup disk as bootable after installing Yosemite.
I guess the guys who write the Trim app don't want to get it signed off for the SandBox, seems like a simple thing to do but so far they haven't.. You can still install it if you want to but then who knows when the next update occurs.
I am running my SSD from a PCI card so getting the full 6G still went wonkers after Yosemite, have one installed in a Mac Mini it has the same slowdowns especially when accessing external HD's. I may attempt to downgrade the Mini and see if it will let me.
I am a real old Okie now living in a Marxist state, long story why but I joined the Army in 1957.
The Video Card will almost always be the bottleneck now since that's where most of the processing power has moved to.
Both my son's have AMD FX-8320's that I picked up for $99 each, 8GB of 1866 memory, 250Gb SSD's and GEForce GTX 660 SuperClocked video cards and they get easily 100+ FPS on Max/Ultra settings on damn' near every one of their war games. (Don't ask me which, I have no idea what games they're into. I just look at the FPS.)
Ditto on the Firefox comment. Definite memory leaks, but still worth putting up with vs. the alternatives. Just shut down and re-open every couple-few days.
From my reads in Windows task manager Firefox hogs less memory than Chrome and Internet Explorer. So I mostly use Firefox and “refresh” it once per day via cold shutdown of the process in Windows task manager....
Then accurate restart of my tabs and windows via session manager extension
Use of flash block extenstion is a must to tamp down Firefox memory hogging a bit
Not just firefox, all browsers continually slow down until they’re restarted.
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I dunno. I use Opera and have never had a problem.
Then again, I shut down all programs and turn off the computer at the end of the day so I don’t know if that makes a difference or not.
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