My computer has 8 GB of RAM! Can you beat that??

Started by Tsutarja August 16th, 2014 6:31 PM
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Tsutarja

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Simple question!

How much RAM does your computer (or computers) have? Are you satisfied with that amount of RAM? Can your computer expand beyond how much RAM it currently has?

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I seem to have a stigma for 16 because I see myself doing a lot of stuff at once. I would like that extra. No more than 16 though.

Currently I'm on 4 and uh...nooooooo.
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6 GB, and I couldn't be happier. I'd probably be 20% more happier with 16 GB, but I can live with 6. My comp hasn't had a slowdown at all. :D

It's surprising that back in the day we considered 512 mb RAM to be the minimum.

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8 GB here. It's unlikely that I'd need any more for the time being, and by the time games require more than 8 GB of RAM, well, the laptop's probably obsoleted.

That, and 8 GB is pretty spacious for normal desktop usage, too.

I can expand the entire thing up to about 16 GB (2 sticks of 8 GB RAM), and the speed's already topped out at 1600 MHz.

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My desktop is stuck with 4GB of RAM, and it's unable to expand farther than that. I wish I could expand it though, because it surely can be slow at times and lock up quite often!

However, my laptop has 8 GB of RAM, and I'm pretty happy with that. :P My laptop can expand up to 16 GB of RAM too.

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Yep, I've got 8GB RAM on my laptop. It's probably the useful minimum for those who do audio production, video editing or animation, and they would probably want more.
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Compared to every one above me, mine is slow, 3GB - the way I use my laptop is fair enough (2 programs opened most of the time - Chrome & Winamp) - when I play basic games I like (Card Games, Board Games or Sim City 4 - I have to quit my programs) - at times I do wish I had more (mainly to have SC4 & Winamp opened at the same time)
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I think it's cool you can spot all the Maccies a mile away with the 6 GB of RAM. Really neat.

I have 4GB of RAM on this laptop. My old eMachines had 2GB. The tower my mother's using has 1GB. I don't really ever have memory troubles even when doing resource-intensive things like Photoshop or some 3D game or whathaveyou. The only thing that's ever put a dent in this PC's RAM is about two dozen tabs of reaction GIFs. In reality this notebook's Achilles heel is its AMD E1-1500 APU, which both of the aforementioned desktops happily run circles around, one being a single-core Sempron and the other a damn Pentium. Yeah, RAM is not on my list of PC troubles. Not at all.
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The laptop I have right now only has a piddly 1GB of RAM running Windows 7. Beat that in terms of suck. xD

The one I'm planning to get though has 8GB of RAM, and is expandable up to 32GB. I can't wait until I get it, because I'm at my wit's end with my current one.
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Well the most recent computer buy I had is the laptop I carry around for non-work which costed $800 bucks and has 8Gb of ram. I bought it almost exactly a year ago. That should give an idea about the scale.

Most modern multi-media class (and simular) laptops $800 and over on the market should have 8GB+ based on that estimate. Most desktops (besides perhaps economy class) on the market should have no less then 4.

That being said, I have a few other laptops around. The one that I use as a small server (and even develop on sometimes) has 2GB. 2Gb could probably do most things I'm using my computer for, though I might miss using ramdisk to reduce compilation times.

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These days, I never game on my computer, so a RAM of 8GB is, for me, a lot more than I could possibly chew. For all my gaming needs and whatnot, I have my consoles, so whenever I feel like playing something, I turn to them. Well, okay, I do game on my computer, but ones I try don't require that much of memory; they seem to run perfectly fine from the amount I actually have, which would be 4GB.

4GB seems very well-balanced, if you ask me, and I'm more than satisfied with it. Mostly, I use my computer to browse Internet, chat, and watch videos, and I don't exactly believe that people need too much RAM for things like this. Can my computer extend its RAM, though? I think so; I remember reading it in its manual. If I remember right, it's able to grow up to around four more gigs or so.

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I think it's cool you can spot all the Maccies a mile away with the 6 GB of RAM. Really neat.
That's a thing? Huh. My craptop has 6 gigs and my mom's has 3, both are Win 7.

Pretty weird design choice in mine, though. A 4GB stick @ 1333, and a 2GB @ 1600.

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8GB for me. More than enough, especially since I don't do much on my laptop outside the usual browsing, watching videos, and so on. Playing Steam games is such a rarity nowadays.

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8 gigs of RAM here. I guess if I actually felt like it, I wouldn't mind buying more, but what I have seems to work fine enough for me. And by "fine enough" I mean at least I don't have the desire to punch things because of stuff running so badly.

My old laptop has a whole 2 gigs of RAM...and that's after the upgrade I could get for it. Playing games back when it still had only 1 gig, oh yeah that was fun argh.