Poll: How much ram do you have in your pc?

[Thekwango]

4gb (2x2gb),installed & bought for ~80 notes, but another 2x2, bought for 25 notes!! sitting in the drawer, havent bothered fitting it other than to test it was working. didn't see any visible difference so took it back out in case my main stuff packed in!!

 

[Andre]

I'm surprised how many people have 12 and 16.

Well I use mine for work, not for gaming. Being able to have a couple of servers interacting with a few clients whilst developing in another machine makes my life so much easier and more compact than before VMs existed.

 

[RJC]

16GB In my system, using the Kingston, bought on special offer last year.

 

[{SAS}TB]

12!

 

[Yaayuh!]

I'm surprised how many people have 12 and 16.

Me too, there should be more, RAM is dirt cheap.

 

[rjk]

8GB at the moment, will get another 8GB when funds permit so I can use quad channel on my X79 board

 

[feck199]

Had to RMA some memory in a new build, so ordered some extra while waiting on it to be replaced (which it was without problem). Anyway had 16gig ram for awhile, had to run VM's just to see in use and even then it didn't really offer any speed.

Took it out and sold it on, back down to 8gig.

 

[sehcure]

8GB; as is the case with others I'm constantly tempted to upgrade to 16GB.

..Even though the maximum I use is around 4-5GB......

 

[Gangster]

IMO if you have ddr3 theres no reason why 8gb shouldn't be a minimum, its so cheap.

 

[Skeese]

8GB RipjawsX (2x4GB)

 

[shootersam]

16GB. Don't really need it, but it was cheap as it's nice being able to assign more to virtual machines.

 

[hopeful_builder]

Just 8GB (2x4GB) of Kingston cheap stuff, will be upgrading to at least 16GB while its relatively cheap (that's if it will fit down the side of the V8)

 

[Senture]

24GB for Virtual machines. 8GB in each laptop too. Wanted to stick 16GB in my XPS 17 but it's the wrong configuration and will only allow 2 sticks not the full 4

 

[Shadz]

8Gb XMS3 1600Mhz plenty for me playing BF3 and such things.

 

[FallshirmjAEger]

8gb seems to be the new sweet spot atm as it gives us all that extra headroom to play with

I run all sorts of junk in the background that I wouldn't dream of doing 4-5 years ago

 

[andy_mk3]

8gb seems to be the new sweet spot atm as it gives us all that extra headroom to play with

I run all sorts of junk in the background that I wouldn't dream of doing 4-5 years ago

Me too, years ago my start-up list would include AV and that was it, now there's all sorts that load up n even less time dut to having an SSD and plenty of ram to handle it all

 

[_lecro_]

Moved from 6 to 12 gb a great improvement although never come close to using all of it.

 

[Kurisu Makise]

been using 6gb for 2 n half years, not come across any problems with it.

 

[Kurisu Makise]

Moved from 6 to 12 gb a great improvement although never come close to using all of it.

when do you notice the improvements?

 

[Admetos]

Even if your programs don't use the memory Windows will eventually cache files into spare memory. Given how cheap memory is you should really fit what you can.

Given that Windows caches files and memory is faster then any SSD, is it not strange the fuss about SSD's yet some people are reluctant to upgrade memory.

Btw Own 3 SSD's but run 16GB also.