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Thread: How much memory? |
    
Bronze Member Username: Dklotusjuggalo
Dayton,
OH
U.S.A.
Post Number: 66
Registered: Jan-06
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| Posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 06:24 pm: |
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Hey there. I'm looking to upgrade my system and was wondering how much memory I should go for. I'm looking for value, but I do download movies and music so I'm looking for enough to do what I have to do. Right now I'm at 512mb ddr sdram dual channel. Any recommendations? Thank you. |
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Platinum Member Username: Project6
Post Number: 15480
Registered: Dec-03
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| Posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 07:16 pm: |
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That depends on the capacity of your system. Some systems have a 2GB upper limit, some have 4, so you first need to know what your system can handle. |
Platinum Member Username: Wingmanalive
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Post Number: 15118
Registered: Jun-06
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| Posted on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 07:52 pm: |
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How does the amount of ram affect your downloading of music and movies? That would be your hard drive space. Ram is used for currently running applications and programs.
External hard drives are a great affordable way to store your files while freeing up your internal HD space. |
Bronze Member Username: Haydog_08
Hot Springs,
Arkansas
US
Post Number: 52
Registered: Oct-06
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| Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 09:09 pm: |
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Paul...if you had no ram you could not save things to your hard drive...Faster ram makes the timings of between your Hard drive and your CPU faster..soo in this case RAM is needed.. I would look at newegg.com and upgrade to at least 1GB of ram...But like berny said all computers have a limit..and find the limit out..and go high as u can with the ram |
Silver Member Username: Magfan
USA
Post Number: 231
Registered: Oct-07
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| Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 09:57 pm: |
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Keep OS limits in mind?
Can Win2kPro, for example, handle 4GB?
How about XP or some of the legacy stuff like '98? |
Platinum Member Username: Glasswolf
Wisteria,
Lane
USA
Post Number: 12137
Registered: Dec-03
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| Posted on Monday, August 04, 2008 - 02:40 am: |
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generally:
windows 9x: 128MB (any more is useless due to memory addressing issues)
windows 2000 or XP: 2GB ideal, 1GB "good"
Vista x32: 4GB ideal, 2GB "good"
Vista x64: whatever you can afford.
I use 8GB in a vista x64 PC for video and graphics editing, and image manipulation work, rendering, and so forth. If I was a typical home user, 4GB would be plenty. |
Bronze Member Username: Eatisa
Post Number: 17
Registered: Jul-09
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| Posted on Thursday, October 01, 2009 - 07:32 am: |
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Do 1 terabyte support computer? |
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