Adding Ram to a computer - Page 3

Viper007Bond · May 17th, 2008, 11:46 AM

RAM disks are highly overrated IMO as they suffer from bottlenecks and such.

Plus, who the hell uses their page file more than the tiny bit that's required of it?

prizrak · May 17th, 2008, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

RAM disks are highly overrated IMO as they suffer from bottlenecks and such.

Plus, who the hell uses their page file more than the tiny bit that's required of it?

Windows moves anything that is not currently being used into the pagefile. So no matter how much RAM you have it will still use quite a bit of the pagefile. I believe Vista relies on it less than XP did but it still does it.

ahpadt · May 17th, 2008, 06:34 PM

6 gigs of RAM is still a total waste...

prizrak · May 17th, 2008, 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by ahpadt

6 gigs of RAM is still a total waste...

Depends on what the system does, we have servers at work that needed to get upgraded to 8gigs cuz they ran out of 4...

MadCow809 · May 17th, 2008, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

RAM disks are highly overrated IMO as they suffer from bottlenecks and such.

Plus, who the hell uses their page file more than the tiny bit that's required of it?

Ramdisk is not overrated, not when you get almost <1ms seek time. It's the perfect platform for random access data like compression temp files and other files that normally runs dog slow on your primary C:\

The bottleneck you are talking about is the writing and reading time, which I don't really care that much, it's the access time that will boost the system's performance.

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Originally Posted by ahpadt

6 gigs of RAM is still a total waste...

It's not. Just because you don't need(and couldn't use) 6gb doesn't mean its a total waste. Besides, I've already made the decision to get the ram before the price goes up. This extra 4gb of ram that I purchased is still around $80 region, which is a bargain. I'd like to see how mugh the same 4gb will be priced when you guys have to upgrade memory in the future (for whatever reason, OS/games/applications etc.)

the Interceptor · May 18th, 2008, 09:59 AM

Well, I've pretty much been where you are now, meaning that I've also been looking into getting loads of RAM. So I started to read and find out if it's a good or a bad idea. I ended up with "bad", due to many compatibility issues, shortcomings of Windows and such. I stuck to Windows XP however. So as you are thinking about using Vista 64bit, I can only highly recommend going that way.

jeffy777 · May 18th, 2008, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by ahpadt

6 gigs of RAM is still a total waste...

I remember thinking 4GB was overkill, now it almost seems to be the norm. So 6GB seems overkill now, but pretty soon it will also probably be the norm.

Viper007Bond · May 18th, 2008, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by jeffy777

I remember thinking 4GB was overkill, now it almost seems to be the norm. So 6GB seems overkill now, but pretty soon it will also probably be the norm.

Of course. Eventually 100GB will be the norm or they'll go to like an all RAM system.

But until then, 6GB is overkill. images/smilies/tongue.gif

jeffy777 · May 18th, 2008, 11:33 AM

haha, good call images/smilies/biggrin.gif

chaos386 · May 18th, 2008, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

Of course. Eventually 100GB will be the norm or they'll go to like an all RAM system.

But until then, 6GB is overkill. images/smilies/tongue.gif

Says the man who owns a server with 16 GB of RAM. images/smilies/tongue.gif

Viper007Bond · May 18th, 2008, 12:09 PM

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Says the man who owns a server with 16 GB of RAM. images/smilies/tongue.gif

Quiky owns it, I just leech off it. images/smilies/tongue.gif

But anyway, servers aren't the same as a home PC.

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