RAM - How much ?
 

Hello buddies,
RAM plays an important role in speeding up the PC in addition to the computer processor speed. I just want to know that what is the average size of ram used here by Geekboards members.

I have only one 512MB ram right now. It is enough for me.

What about you ?

2 gb ^_^ 400 mghz

I have 1GB in my workstation. If I was still into gaming I would probably have a bit more than that by now. No time for much gaming anymore... lately it's just work, work, work. :) Not long from now, maybe a month or two, I'll have a new webserver online with 8GB RAM :eek: for hosting this site and others.

pretty sweet :O 8gb :O what about HD? how many Teras?

For the HDD setup, I focused on speed more than space considerations. The new server has 8 x 36GB 15k rpm SCSI HDDs. 2 are in RAID1 for the OS & other stuff, 4 setup in a RAID10 for databases and the last two are hot spares. I also have space for 1 IDE HDD in the server, so will include one of those to have just in case - maybe to use for additional backup copies.

There is one thing I'll be working on that may considerably speed up the databases. I'll keep that under wraps for now, but it should be quite good if it works.

I try to go with a gig these days. Although if your doing anything real advanced like gaming or webserving, 512 is plenty.

The extra 512 just allows for a bit more power. I have (2) 256 pc2700's im looking to sell, if anyone is interested. ;)

But yeah, 2 gig's would be ideal for gaming and more advanced computing.

My mian system is as follows:

Amd Athlon XP 3200+ (2.2ghz)

1 gig of pc3200 ram

160 gig 7.2k rpm

DVD+RW/CD-RW

CD rom

And a Nvidia GeForce 5700


It ran the prey demo, great. So, I don't think im going to upgrade for a long while. Lol.

Hey John,

It depends on what you want to do with a computer but I think 512MB is on the light side. If all you want to do is Word pro, surf the net and email, that might be okay. But if you want to work on photos or several apps at the same time, I would like to look at up wards of 1GB. If anyone was buying a new computer, I would say 2GB minimum. I run 4GB on my laptop.

Paul

hi john, For better performance try 2GB RAM and if you computer and mother board supports means then try up to 4GB

Right now I'm running 1GB of RAM. It's enough for me seeing as how I just surf the net, check e-mail. Just the basics.

^Haha, same here.
Everything runs fine with 1GB, so why would I get more?

on my HP i have 4GB of RAM with pentium dual E2200 2.20GHz each

on my old computer i had over a GB of ram and i forget the processor lol

Well I recently switched to 1 GB
 

Well I recently switched to 1 GB. Previously I was using 512 DDR but I was having trouble playing some high resolution games. So I changed to 1 GB for optimal performance.

Around 8 months ago a few of the capacitors on my motherboard finally failed. I got probably 4-5 years out of that system. But, I went and rebuilt my PC. Upgraded the power supply, got a new motherboard, a high energy efficient dual-core cpu and 4 gigs of RAM. I went with 4 gigs because I had started using VMs on my computer and the 4 gigs helps keep things running smoothly with the VMs and my host OS.

I'll be putting a new web server online soon as well, with 12 gigs of RAM.

12 GB of RAM?!?! That's insane, man.

i am using 3 GB

With Windows 7 the optimal amount of RAM is 3 GB (if you have a dedicated video card). If you have an integrated video card I would say 4 GB for 64 bit systems and ...well, 3 GB for 32 bit systems (they can not handle more than that anyway)

I'm using 4GB in my Windows 7 - but not sure if Win7 can make use of all of it - or only 3 GB ? Anyone know ?

I am using 2GB for my windows xp. guess it is enough though.

guess RAM is also affected of what you're doing... gaming and photo editting would really need RAM and video card boost. for simple home use then for me 1 to 2GB is just enough for windows XP :)