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Old August 25, 2009, 07:53 PM
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Default 2gb or 4 gb of ram for my htpc?
trying to put together a htpc and i'm trying to decide if i should purchase 2 gb or 2 gb of ddr2-800. so far i just have the mobo and cpu which is the gigabyte 785g and an AMD 245

would 2 gb of ram be sufficient or should i spend the extra money and get 4 gb?

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Old August 25, 2009, 09:07 PM
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I would think that 2 gb would be allot of ram that is what I have and I probably hardly use half of it
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Old August 26, 2009, 06:47 AM
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2 gb and your good to go. jmo
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I have 4gb in mine cause it was cheap. I also someday.. hope to play games on it.
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I have 4 gigs on mine as well cause it is so cheap.
I took 2 out to do trouble shooting and it just took soooo long to boot. lol I don't think I'd ever build a machine with less than 4 now.
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amen cypher, MCE (vista/windows 7) boots too slow for my taste when it's running 2GB. And with PC-800 being as cheap as it is, its a no brainer.
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Old August 27, 2009, 09:34 AM
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4Gb, its pretty cheap.
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Old August 27, 2009, 09:49 AM
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I think 2GB should be fine as most that software does not take up a lot of memory when running.
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amen cypher, MCE (vista/windows 7) boots too slow for my taste when it's running 2GB. And with PC-800 being as cheap as it is, its a no brainer.
well you shouldn't be using MCE anyways
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That's what I'm using and love it. What would you suggest that has an all in one menu system like MCE thats easy for the family to navigate?
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