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TimZ
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 Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 10:55 am Post subject: Is 16Ghz RAM too much? |
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| Hi! I'm just wondering if you play multi-threaded games and perform other multi-threaded apps, running multiple programs at once, is 16Ghz RAM too much for a desktop PC running in 64 bit OS? Or perhaps is 8Ghz RAM more than enough for home use. I'm asking this coz I'm planning to upgrade my OS from 32 bit WinXP Pro SP-3 to 64 bit Win7. Any answers shall be appreciated. Thanks! |
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D.8080
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| Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 11:18 am Post subject: |
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Actually it's 16 GB (gigabyte) not GHz (gigahertz). One is the unit to mesure how much, te other how fast. 16ghz is not close to come any time soon 
Anyway, if you don't have troubles buying go for the 16GB ram.
It really depends on other components as well, a lot of ram on a crappy computer doesn't help much...
If you don't mind then just get the 16gb, right choice for the heart and the soul  |
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Vlasta
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| Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 3:38 am Post subject: |
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Invest in a solid state drive (SSD) - this will also give increased performance.
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Marcin
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| Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 8:12 am Post subject: |
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| Vlasta wrote: | | Invest in a solid state drive (SSD) - this will also give increased performance. |
That will be better upgrade than RAM.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 8:26 am Post subject: |
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| Marcin wrote: | | Vlasta wrote: | | Invest in a solid state drive (SSD) - this will also give increased performance. |
That will be better upgrade than RAM. |
I agree..... I have a Lenovo laptop at work and it used to take more than 5 minutes just to boot up. I had the IT department replace the HDD with an SSD and now it takes 45 seconds or so to boot. Opening and closing applications is also much faster.
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lauren85
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Y'all do realize that most games are compiled for 32-bit Windows? Any program NOT compiled for 64-bit will only use 2G RAM. If it needs more than 2G, it uses the swapfile, or the game may have its own resource manager that swaps data to the diskj.
Thus for gaming, you would be much better off spending that $200 on an SSD hard drive than more RAM. |
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debs3759
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 8:36 am Post subject: |
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| lauren85 wrote: | Y'all do realize that most games are compiled for 32-bit Windows? Any program NOT compiled for 64-bit will only use 2G RAM. If it needs more than 2G, it uses the swapfile, or the game may have its own resource manager that swaps data to the diskj.
Thus for gaming, you would be much better off spending that $200 on an SSD hard drive than more RAM. |
TimZ did say he will be running multiple programs together. if each can use 2 GB that will add up. I agree that a combination of SSD and memory would be best.
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henriok
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I'd go for the SSD option before going from 8 to 16 GB RAM.
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