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Revisiting How Much RAM Is Enough Today For Desktop Computing

Posted by Soulskill on from the 64GB-ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody dept.

jjslash writes: An article at TechSpot tests how much RAM you need for regular desktop computing and how it affects performance in apps and games. As it turns out, there's not much benefit going beyond 8 GB for regular programs, and surprisingly, 4GB still seems to be enough for gaming in most cases. Although RAM is cheap these days, and they had to go to absurdly unrealistic settings to simulate high demand for memory outside of virtualization, it's a good read to confirm our judgment calls on what is enough for most in 2015.

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  1. Running a single game? by Nutria · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who the hell voted *that* the be-all and end-all measure of need in desktop RAM???

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  2. Re:For anyone? by linear+a · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nobody will ever need more than 640 GB of memory. - William Gates

  3. Why is this on SlashDot? by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 3, Funny

    >> As it turns out, there's not much benefit going beyond 8 GB for regular programs, and surprisingly, 4GB still seems to be enough for gaming in most cases.

    Why is this on SlashDot? Or am I in the minority here now because I develop, compile and look at memory dumps on desktops?

  4. ALL THE RAMS by JoeDuncan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Easy. ALL the RAM.

  5. Re:As much as possible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    But by adding more RAM, you're creating more heat, which means more entropy, which means you have more to analyze, so you need more RAM...

  6. Re:As much as possible by runningduck · · Score: 4, Funny

    No no no! You should never size a system based on likely real world scenarios over the lifetime of the system. You should always size a system based on single tasked benchmarks!

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