People with 8 GB of ram, thoughts please

[hyperst]

just wanted to see if people with 8 gig of ram see that there system ever uses more than 4 gig while running windows 7 and gaming?

 

[hawker1986]

Basically no, and your title says meg fyi

Hawker

 

[SeraphX]

i dont think windows would boot on 8Mb of ram, and gaming, your having a laugh surely haha

 

[RedGooner]

I run with 12GB (not MB) Ram, and system flies...Win 7 64Bit loves loads of memory.

 

[Schizo]

vista 64 bit here with 8gb of ram.

cant see me ever using 4gb again to be honest.

i did notice a change when i used 8gb than 4gb.

ive got used to the speed of my pc now and sometimes feel's slowish but im sure it is pretty quick to some people's pc's.

 

[AtaRo]

SSD or 8 GB and 4 GB of Memory

 

[AtticusFinch]

For gaming no difference for me. For photography, music and video the more ram the better.

 

[MooMoo444]

Only way I could tell the difference is if I took 4GB out and used it for a couple of weeks.

But I can't be bothered doing that.....

6GB seems to be the golden amount nowadays, but for the people on dual channel - you just go with 8GB.

Also as said already, on Windows 7 64 so it eats up the RAM

 

[1Day]

You will not use it all unless you are using memory intensive media rendering software.

 

[JasonM]

I'm running 8GB ram, however previous system had 2, 4 then 6GB.

This is on XP64, but there is a difference between 4GB and 6GB. I would say 6GB the sweet spot unless I go crazy on the application loading.

I run multiple monitors, and can have 2 visual studios + a couple of SQL management studios, then I may drop into photo editing, or dreamweaver. Then for a break I may load a computer game. I could manage with 6 or even 4, but with 8GB I can go crazy without to much HDD/swap file usage.

For most running single apps 4GB should be fine. There is the advantage if you get 8GB together it's all matched, and for life of system you'll never need to upgrade.

 

[hyperst]

thanks guys, will order another 4gig of ram then, and going for a 60 gig ssd, should improve my rig a little
thankyou mods for fixing title

 

[Skyrocket]

Once you try 8gb you will never go back.

 

[darkwildchild79]

Yeph i got 8gb in my system which is also my system max and yeph i have noticed a differenced when i used windows 7 64bit system stop telling me out of memory when i am using memory hungry programs. at idle watching tv my memory is

Total 8190
Cached 3362
Available 5019
Free 1700

 

[e36Adz]

SSD or 8 GB and 4 GB of Memory

From looking at the results of most of those tests, 8GB seems an absolute and utter waste.

 

[dazzerd]

It is unless you are using or lots of vm or manipulating videos/photos I went from 8gb to 4gb and noticed no difference to be honest.

 

[koolpc]

Tried 6gig, had some issues. 4 gig is fine.

 

[HighlandeR]

Ive gone from 4gig to 6 and 8gig, but even under windows 7-64bit I always notice windows performance is a little faster with 6gig or 8gig.

Theres less difference to no difference from 6-8gig though, but oddly from 4 to 6gig I feel it.

Might just be in my head, but then my rigg is left on 24/7 and running programs constantly

 

[hyperst]

well I got in a corsair ssd f60, not as amazing as most people say really, the only real wow factor is booting up and seeing the animation stop before it finishes and a flash of the welcome screen and into windows, other than that not overly impressed, not got the ram yet, maybe a Xmas present, lol.

 

[nmungur]

I went for 12 gig RAM on my Win 7 64bit. I did notice a difference going up to 12gb from 6gb

 

[sturmtruppe]

I just maxed mine to 8gb because I could. I'd rather have it all there , even though i probably never use more than 4gb.