Revisiting How Much RAM Is Enough Today For Desktop Computing

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @05:46AM 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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As much as possible by TechyImmigrant · 2015-08-18 05:48 · Score: 5, Insightful

The more RAM I have, the better.
Your game might have a limited memory footprint, but my entropy analysis algorithms do not.

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Re:For anyone? by linear+a · 2015-08-18 05:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Nobody will ever need more than 640 GB of memory. - William Gates
ALL THE RAMS by JoeDuncan · 2015-08-18 05:59 · Score: 5, Funny

Easy. ALL the RAM.