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8GB vs 16GB
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Commonly, and incorrectly, attributed to Bill Gates. It can't have been something Bill Gates said for several reasons. One being because it was actually a limitation of the IBM PC architecture rather than DOS itself.
But the reason I wrote that is for a bit irony because of Burrell's reply of "never" to when asked when we might need that much memory?
We will surely need that much memory long before never. In fact, I think interesting things will happen beyond 2015-2016.
Yeah im pretty sure it was. haha, i donteven remembre back that far to when systems ran on that..
I was first in the computer scene back in the 8mb ram days
Those computers had more than 640K of memory. The usually had at least 1MB or more (and this limitation is still present on every PC today at startup before it leaves real mode and enters protected mode). All this has to do with the complex way memory was addressed back in the day: Using a segment and offset in assembly language (C had near and far pointers for these). The first 640K of that 1MB was 10 segments of Conventional Memory amounting to 640K which user programs could access. Programs could be allocated memory in entire segments. No more, no less.
All other memory was used by the system, hardware devices, or just left unused. Above this Conventional Mem was 6 segments of Upper Memory usually reserved by the ROM BIOS (making up 1MB in total) and then eXtended Memory lay above even that. And portions of this could be addressed variously as High Memory and Expanded Memory.
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Just bought a new system and went for 8GB of Kingston HyperX at £40. Honestly I cant see myself ever using more than that. I barely noticed any need for more than 4gb on my current system. I mostly use my PC for gaming, writing and web browsing with the odd video editing.
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I have seen a competing company offering a 16GB quad channel kit of kingston HyperX 1600 CL9 at £49.99 in their special offers section.
At that price why would you buy anything less than 16GB?
At that price why would you buy anything less than 16GB?
Well that depends what your day to day activities include, I will easily eat through 16gb editing 100+ 16mp RAW files and 22mp 16 bit RAWs from a Mamiya
For web browsing, games etc. you'll 'never' (not soon, any way) need it but at £50 for 16gb it's silly not to imo.
Look at how much is being cached after a full day of using the PC without a restart. My PC manges to use up all 24 Gb for caching. Though I am now downgrading from 24 Gb to 8 Gb, that will be enough for me.
With only 4 Gb ram, you wont have enough free for caching so may end up getting stutter and lag spikes in games, as well as a slower experience in windows.
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I have 4GB which seems to be enough, but seeing 4GB memory for £24 seems so tempting! Few questions though:
1. Why is DDR3 memory so cheap now?
2. Does it matter what brand memory I buy because I have 2x2GB Geil memory right now
3. Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz for £24 any good? and Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz for £40
4. How easy is it to install the memory and get it up and running?
1. Why is DDR3 memory so cheap now?
2. Does it matter what brand memory I buy because I have 2x2GB Geil memory right now
3. Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz for £24 any good? and Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz for £40
4. How easy is it to install the memory and get it up and running?
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Pfft 16GB? Weak
That's better
Yeah, your work's terminal server has a lot of RAM.
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Terminal server, I'd not have thought so.
As an aside, my work AD server has 12GB RAM and my home PC has 18GB of RAM...just because it was so cheap.
If the server is only used as a PDC/DC then that's a complete waste of RAM, you can probably run AD on a P4 with 512mb of RAM.
/pedant 1GB on server 2008 because it runs like a dog on anything less.......
You're very right though, AD server with 12GB ram is 11GB of wasted ram.
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Well it's lucky then that the server isn't just an AD server. It's a file server, DNS server, DHCP server, software assignation server, Subordinate Enterprise CA server, Hyper-V server, MSSQL server, WSUS server and an NPS server (I may have missed something/s there).
It ticks over nicely using up about 5GB of RAM for active processes and caching uses the rest. This is currently with about 20 users on the network, however, I planned for this server to cope with 40-50 users on its own, before the business would buy some more servers so that we can put the files onto DFS shares, and add in some redundancy for logon etc.
Also then I can start to move some of the other processes off of it too.
do yourself a favour pick up a copy of micromart and get yourself an absolute bargain on 16gb of ram
I seen this myself, I was staggered at the price!! It should go well with my new 2500k which I bagged in special offer, along with the MSI 20% back - the cheapest upgrade ever!