| Author |
Thread Statistics | Show CCP posts - 0 post(s) |
Xrak
Pat Sharp's Potato Rodeo
Wildly Inappropriate.
   |
Posted - 2010.09.16 22:18:00 -
[1]
 Originally by: Ultim8Evil
Also worth noting that unless you're running a 64-bit OS, 4Gb of ram is useless.
Correction - Anything over 4GB is useless on a 32bit OS.
|
Xrak
Pat Sharp's Potato Rodeo
Wildly Inappropriate.
|
Posted - 2010.09.17 00:58:00 -
[2]
Originally by: Ultim8Evil
Originally by: Xrak
Originally by: Ultim8Evil
Also worth noting that unless you're running a 64-bit OS, 4Gb of ram is useless.
Correction - Anything over 4GB is useless on a 32bit OS.
So, once again, if you want to make full use of 4Gb of RAM, you need a 64-bit OS.
I've bolded the important part. Your first statement is quite untrue, your second one is true, you have said 2 different things.
Saying that 4GB is RAM on a 32bit OS is "useless" is wrong.
In general 32bit Windows (aka without using PAE as it mostly causes driver issues) can address up-to 4GB of memory, This includes all memory in the system from system RAM to Graphics card memory. The end result is that Windows has somewhere between 3-4 GB of RAM available to use. This is definitely a better option than only having 2GB of RAM
|
Xrak
Pat Sharp's Potato Rodeo
Wildly Inappropriate.
|
Posted - 2010.09.17 01:20:00 -
[3]
Edited by: Xrak on 17/09/2010 01:21:24
Originally by: Caleidascope
Don't bother with RAM, 2 GB is all you need.
I highly doubt that 2GB of RAM is optimal and would recommend that he gets more.
But rather then trusting any of us, arguing between ourselves, have a look for your self.
Play eve as you normally would, with your usual applications open in the background, music player, browser etc. Then have a look at your memory usage in the Task manager, if you are approaching 2GB then you want to get more RAM.
|
Xrak
Pat Sharp's Potato Rodeo
Wildly Inappropriate.
|
Posted - 2010.09.17 01:49:00 -
[4]
Originally by: Caleidascope
I did extensive research about RAM when I built my quad core system. For 32-bit OS, 2 GB is all you need. You can top it off to 4 GB, but OS will only use 3 GB at most.
Erm, did you even both to read this thread? If not try reading my post above talking about RAM and windows addressing. Your assumption that you only need 2GB because you are using a 32bit OS is very wrong. Your memory needs come from how you use the system eg playing a modern game, or having many applications open. Whilst the system may work and run on less than 2 GB of RAM, it will most likely run much much better with more RAM available to use.
When the system runs out of available RAM, it will start to use 'Virtual memory' instead. Virtual memory is simply part of the hard drive that has been set aside for this situation. The problem is that accessing and writing data to the hard drive is many multitudes slower than that of RAM, thus having a massive negative impact on the performance of your PC.
And yes Ultim8Evil, we can both certainly agree that 64bit OS is the way to go :)
|
| |
|