Is 6gb of RAM enough?

[solidshot]

ctrl+alt+del, open task manager and click processes then alt/tab in a game

That usually isn't accurate. When you alt-tab, it will show less.

You need a software program with an overlay, or to do it with a secondary monitor having task manager run on second screen while playing a game to monitor it real time.

[dracom_ma]

That usually isn't accurate. When you alt-tab, it will show less.

You need a software program with an overlay, or to do it with a secondary monitor having task manager run on second screen while playing a game to monitor it real time.

This is one reason I like my G19, I can display system information and statistics while in games.

[samuell]

12 Gb ram here and fill it up since ram is cheap.

[Splizxer]

Since the vast majority of videogames are still 32bit, that means that the most they can allocate is 4gb in 64bit windows (3gb in 32bit), AND that is only if they support large address functionality, otherwise it's just 2gb.

On the other side, RAM is cheap, and more is better.


Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...#memory_limits

[RealyPssd]

I just upgraded from 4GB to 8GB.

[hodgeman]

6GB is probably enough on a well maintained system.

I went from 4GB to 12GB (4+2, 4+2 dual channel) as 4GB wasnt cutting it in a couple of the newest games.

Running win 7 64bit using about 11% of that memory at startup.

[Streifenkarl]

I went from 8GB to 4GB because I gave half of my RAM to a friend and havent noticed any difference. I'm on Windows 7 64bit.

So in my opinion 4GB are enough if you're just gaming, surfing the web and using your PC for multimedia purposes.

Then again RAM is pretty cheap so upgrading wont hurt your wallet. But its not necessary if you ask me.

[Dolfan269]

I went from 8GB to 4GB because I gave half of my RAM to a friend and havent noticed any difference. I'm on Windows 7 64bit.

So in my opinion 4GB are enough if you're just gaming, surfing the web and using your PC for multimedia purposes.

Then again RAM is pretty cheap so upgrading wont hurt your wallet. But its not necessary if you ask me.

I agree with everything in this statement. 6GB is plenty if you just game and do basic stuff. No game I've played comes even close to 4GB, let alone 6GB or more.

I suppose if you use PS a lot, then go for more since it's quite cheap right now.

[two00lbwaster]

I'm currently sitting looking at my task manager and I can see I'm using 4GB with just Firefox 10 (42 tabs open and 22 addons) and an RDP session open. Now, all my other apps are what is pushing that RAM usage up. I have Ubuntu One, Dropbox, Logmein, Kaspersky AV, TrueCrypt, Origin, HTC Sync, Windows Live Mesh and Steam all sat in my control panel.

Having a look at task manager shows:
Physical Memory (MB)
Total 18423
Cached 4504
Available 14442
Free 10625

These are dropping as I've just been playing BF3. I'm not even running any VMs, which quickly eats away at the GBs, however, I've never managed to see anything less than 4GB of RAM free. The reason that I added a further 12GB to my original 6GB was that I could see that in time I'd likely need it before I need a new CPU and 6GB was too much of a constraint in Civ 5 at the time.

[QuadDamage]

6GB of ram is an overkill for most apps. Unless you do heavy video encoding or some scientific simulations or you like to work with 200 RAW images in PS at the same time there is really no need for more than 4GB.

The quality of ram ie clocks and tight latency is more imprtant than having say 16GB or ram that can't even do 1600Mhz at CAS7.