Is there any reason to have 8 GB of RAM?

[MushkinGreg]

Originally Posted by Chos3n

Your answer is : Vista

Agreed, vista uses all by 2MB of 8GB with super prefetching.

Another thing would be for more virtual machines

[Urotsukidoji]

Originally Posted by MushkinGreg

Agreed, vista uses all by 2MB of 8GB with super prefetching.

Another thing would be for more virtual machines

Sorry, not sure I understand. Did you mean vista uses all but 2MB of 8GB with super prefetching. Meaning 8 would be good?

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by Urotsukidoji

Sorry, not sure I understand. Did you mean vista uses all but 2MB of 8GB with super prefetching. Meaning 8 would be good?

He meant his Vista uses all of 2gb of his 4gb.

[Urotsukidoji]

cool, thanks all, I'll stick with 4.

[MushkinGreg]

Yup, superprefetch uses all the ram but ~2MB (megabyte), when I am using 4GB or 8GB of ram.
This really helps with load times of applications and documents I often run
I would go back to using 8GB but having crossfire, I get the vista >5GB crossfire bsod, not sure if drivers have fixed yet, since I haven't gone back to 8GB

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by MushkinGreg

Yup, superprefetch uses all the ram but ~2MB (megabyte), when I am using 4GB or 8GB of ram.
This really helps with load times of applications and documents I often run
I would go back to using 8GB but having crossfire, I get the vista >5GB crossfire bsod, not sure if drivers have fixed yet, since I haven't gone back to 8GB

And which is a absolute waste of ram.

Why does it need to cache so much ram for? Speeds of computers these days DOES NOT need this.

If 1-2 seconds is to much of a wait for you while something opens, best to step away from the computer.

[MushkinGreg]

Originally Posted by enaberif

And which is a absolute waste of ram.

Why does it need to cache so much ram for? Speeds of computers these days DOES NOT need this.

If 1-2 seconds is to much of a wait for you while something opens, best to step away from the computer.

Actually it would be a waste of ram if it wasn't being used all the time, like how xp manages ram.
It automatically dumps the first 750MB when you load an application requesting more then a certain amount of ram, then pages the remaining needed while your loading the program

[Urotsukidoji]

Originally Posted by MushkinGreg

Yup, superprefetch uses all the ram but ~2MB (megabyte), when I am using 4GB or 8GB of ram.
This really helps with load times of applications and documents I often run
I would go back to using 8GB but having crossfire, I get the vista >5GB crossfire bsod, not sure if drivers have fixed yet, since I haven't gone back to 8GB

so 8 could actually be useful. But since I have crossfire as well, I could end up with the ol' BSOD... so maybe down the road I guess.

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by MushkinGreg

Actually it would be a waste of ram if it wasn't being used all the time, like how xp manages ram.
It automatically dumps the first 750MB when you load an application requesting more then a certain amount of ram, then pages the remaining needed while your loading the program

I'm so tired of hearing this argument.

Just because ram is not being used does not mean its being wasted.

The way XP manages memory is PERFECTLY fine.

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by Urotsukidoji

so 8 could actually be useful. But since I have crossfire as well, I could end up with the ol' BSOD... so maybe down the road I guess.

You will see NO benefit at all going from 4 to 8 gb