Can you ever have too much ram , i mean is any amount over 1GB just a waste of money or will it improve performance. (I am only playing games and not any 3d design or anything)

Unless you are doing major video and or graphics edit work.
Or into the latest greatest and newest including tomorrow’s games.
Going over the 1G mark is a waste

When I bought my first computer, it came with a whooping 8 megs of RAM. I was thoroughly convinced that I will never, EVER need more than these roomy 8 megs of RAM I had.

Six months later, kids pointed and laughed at me whenever I mentioned that my system has puny 8 megs of RAM. ;)

Go figure. ;)

If running XP you can do a little future proofing by putting in as much ram as you can afford or that your computer will hold.
Depending how long or how new you can prepare for longhorn which will require lots of ram besides other things.
In most cases today 1 gig of ram is plenty.
Mark

I presently run with 1.25 GB and think it is worth it for the performance boost. Granted I am a multi-tasker and therefore tend to run multiple memory-hogging applications all at the same time, but still, the extra boost I get with my games and with my work is enough to justify what little it cost me to get the RAM in the first place.

Hey Headaches,
Don't you mean physically present, mentally departed?
:D j/k
I could not resist
Mark:D

Depends what games you run.
FPS and stuff that has a lot of moving entities - especially bots (enemy AI) and explosions etc requires oodles of memory - the graphics card takes a pounding, and the cpu is left to control the positioning, AI etc, so if you run anything that has you running around like crazy, then more ram is definitely a plus. Bear in mind that it should be viewed as part of the whole system - there's no point in putting 3 gigs of ram on a celeron 400 with a GF2 card expecting miracles - much better to upgrade the mobo/procesor/graphics card and have 512MB than have a slow machine.

16kb of ram is plenty :p



(P.S.: I know he didn't actually say that)

Mark,

Physical and Mental presence are controlled by factors of the unknown. At one point in time I do believe that it did in fact read "Physically Present, Mentally Departed" and somehow became transposed during the last year.

As a result of recent meteorological events I would have to say that I have physically departed and am now on a mentally exhaustive journey through both space and time. At some point in the future I posted this message so that I could respond to it in the present.

Eventually I might catch up to myself but I doubt that will be anytime soon.

:cool:

Note to self...Lack of sleep and nutrition may result in complete clarity of the mind.

Cool!!!!!!!:D

While I don't know which parts of me are present or departed, I do know how much RAM I have. 1GB = 1024MB = 2 x 512MB Kingston PC2700. My current P4B 2.26 is OC'ed to a healthy 2636 MHz, so my RAM is happy to be working at CAS 2 as long as it's running under its rated speed. Plus, the i865PE chipset ensures a nice dual-channel arrangement that benefits all.

Eventually, I plan to upgrade to a P4C, and upgrade the RAM to 2 x 1GB PC3200. I want to make sure that for once, I upgrade a modern machine to the max RAM it can handle! :D 4GB for this mobo, 4 x 1GB sticks, which is nice since 2000 & XP can only take 4GB of RAM. Coincidence? ;)

I don't think I'll have the funds to do this upgrade for quite some time, which is why I'm pretty certain that 2GB of RAM won't be overkill by then. But I've heard tales that FarCry, Doom III, and Half-Life 2 are all a bit happier with more than 1GB of RAM already. That's a bit scary now, isn't it?

Originally posted by Abbadon
16kb of ram is plenty :p


WAS plenty, in 1978... ;)

Hey, there were times when one could be thrilled about having incredible 512 bytes of volatile RAM in his programmable electronic slide rule... IMAGINE TEH POWER!!! :D :D :D :D

Well when I got my first pc, I upgraded the ram from 512K to 640K.

The answer to your basic question of how much RAm do I need. With XP, it's as much as you can afford...

All PC's over 1Ghz are recconmended (by Amd) to have at least 128Mb, but this might disapoint so 256 is better, and I have never used a computer- Even ones with complicated sotware that needed over- and games play ine. if your serious though 512Mb greats but in my view, any ting over is a waste of money.

if your serious though 512Mb greats but in my view, any ting over is a waste of money.

For surfing the web certainly, but for high-end gaming or video/image editing 512 is a minimum, the more the merrier.

128mb of ram is needed only on computers slower than 689 MHz in my book. I've used a 1GHZ Dell inspiron notebook which has 256mb RAM and is slow. 512mb RAM recommended. Especially for games and multimedia. And of course, multi tasking. I think 2kb of RAM is plenty for 1978, but 16kb is more like 1982.

Originally posted by UkGamer
Can you ever have too much ram , i mean is any amount over 1GB just a waste of money or will it improve performance. (I am only playing games and not any 3d design or anything)

It depends on your OS. For example, Windows ME can't handle anything beyond 512mb.

The examples I gave presumed that you don't have built in (on board) graphics. If you have, due to the graphics running of the main RAM even if you have 512mb, if you set your graphics to higher than 16 (Mb) your ind it will run slow. I think this is the same for notebooks, although I'm not sure about that.

Thanks all, sorry i took so long to reply i was on holiday :D