Vista might need 2gb of ram to play games

The Vista era will require just over 2gb anyway. Too many people are panicking since your average gamer out there has roughly a gig of ram. Truth of the matter is, 2gb will quickly become the norm by the time the OS arrives and given how fast the memory industry is moving, we'll all be looking at 2gb as the norm.

Games already broke the 1gb barrier years ago with EQ2, Planetside and other bloatastic stuffs. The OS will be fine with 1gb but as always more is better.
 
Kainz said:
The Vista era will require just over 2gb anyway. Too many people are panicking since your average gamer out there has roughly a gig of ram. Truth of the matter is, 2gb will quickly become the norm by the time the OS arrives and given how fast the memory industry is moving, we'll all be looking at 2gb as the norm.

Games already broke the 1gb barrier years ago with EQ2, Planetside and other bloatastic stuffs. The OS will be fine with 1gb but as always more is better.
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Very true.

I'd like to run 64 bit java on windows now at home as the 32bit version has a 2Gb limit.. then there's the motherboard and memory controller limits... yada yada... and the final nail in an XP64 coffin is that the majority of vendors have decided to only concentrate on Vista drivers.

I'm not going to fork out for a second system with a Tyan server motherboard, CPU and ECC registered memory...
 
ben_j_davis said:
Not really, ram is so cheap these days
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I think thats not the point...there are so many mainstream motherboard out there that supports maximum up to 2GB or 3GB.

That is, let alone any future Windows Updates and additional programs.
 
danceMB said:
Would be nice to see a new board with 4 memory slots, and if you fit in 4 x 1gb they could work it in "quad-channel" not sure if that could be done or not?
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Very interesting concept, I haven't heard of that before!

It would be nice if it was possible to have quad-channel though :cool:
 
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