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6GB vs 12GB
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I was wondering the same thing but for gaming. No need for a new thread I suppose
I did stubble accrss this, which leads me to believe that you will see an improvement in a few Professional applications. '
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/memory-module-upgrade,2264.html
How about 9gb is that viable for DDR3?
I did stubble accrss this, which leads me to believe that you will see an improvement in a few Professional applications. '
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/memory-module-upgrade,2264.html
How about 9gb is that viable for DDR3?
pretty useless test for applications. If you tested it in a 3D app or a server with lots of clients, then you would see a big difference.
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Gaming barely, if at all, benefits from more than 3GB of ram, let alone even bother contemplating going over 6. Of course if your the type of person to turn on a bunch of applications then for no reason, leaving them on when you play games, then you would like 6GB.
My Hyper-V server has yet to max out 8gb. Of course thats not stopping me from picking up another 2x4gb sometime soon.
Depends on what' you're running. If you're going for 4+ VM's on Hyper-V, then probably, yes.
This. I have 8GB, and it allows me to just leave apps running all the time, even when playing games. I accidentally left a VM running once while playing L4D2 and didn't even notice. With 8+ GB you don't even really need an SSD.
Have you USED an SSD for your OS? 4, 6, 8, or 12GB aside... I am impatient and when I click on something, I want it loaded before I clicked
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Have you USED an SSD for your OS? 4, 6, 8, or 12GB aside... I am impatient and when I click on something, I want it loaded before I clicked
That's what superfetch is for.
But an SSD is still nice.Have you USED an SSD for your OS? 4, 6, 8, or 12GB aside... I am impatient and when I click on something, I want it loaded before I clicked
I have not tried one yet, no. I am tempted of course. Regardless, having 8 GB of memory is still sweet.
Currently, you will find next to no games that use more than 2GB themselves. Almost all are 32-bit apps and generally not set to Large Address Aware. So, 2GB is the most they can use.
Now for best performance, you also have to figure in OS overhead, and any other stuff you run in the background. Windows 7 will use about a gig for itself, if that much is available. Background stuff you'd be hard pressed to use up a gig currently, even if you run a fair bit.
So 4GB should do fine for any realistic normal situation.
What more will get you is headroom, should your needs grow. Also you get more caching. Windows 7 will cache data to RAM so you get faster load times, and the more RAM you have the more you can cache.
In neither case are you talking about a major improvement, but there you go.
Now for best performance, you also have to figure in OS overhead, and any other stuff you run in the background. Windows 7 will use about a gig for itself, if that much is available. Background stuff you'd be hard pressed to use up a gig currently, even if you run a fair bit.
So 4GB should do fine for any realistic normal situation.
What more will get you is headroom, should your needs grow. Also you get more caching. Windows 7 will cache data to RAM so you get faster load times, and the more RAM you have the more you can cache.
In neither case are you talking about a major improvement, but there you go.
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being heavily into photography i can assure you from 6 to 12 gbs will make adiffference IF you are working with multiple raw files doing batch work, etc.
i can batch 60-80 finalized files from a shoot and be done in no time at all.
i can batch 60-80 finalized files from a shoot and be done in no time at all.