How much RAM you have?
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So I posted on CP last week about my Vista machine blue screening. It came down to a memory error. Someone suggested blowing the dust out of the RAM slots and swapping the 2 sticks. Good news: it seemed to work! I've been running for 2 days now without any blue screens, and the memory error detection tool in Vista can't find any errors. Wahooo! But it got me thinking: I'm running x64 with 4GB of RAM (2 sticks of 2GB each). I've got 6 slots for RAM, so I could theoretically load it up with 12 GB if I bought the cheap 2GB sticks. Is 12 gigs of RAM overkill? How much RAM do you guys have for your dev machines at home?
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Judah Himango wrote:
Is 12 gigs of RAM overkill? How much RAM do you guys have for your dev machines at home?
6GB went from 2GB up to 6GB and noticed a fast improvement, however I don't think that I've maxed it out yet but then I only tend to have one or two copies of VS open at one time. [edit]And sometimes 4 or 5 VMs[/edit]
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So I posted on CP last week about my Vista machine blue screening. It came down to a memory error. Someone suggested blowing the dust out of the RAM slots and swapping the 2 sticks. Good news: it seemed to work! I've been running for 2 days now without any blue screens, and the memory error detection tool in Vista can't find any errors. Wahooo! But it got me thinking: I'm running x64 with 4GB of RAM (2 sticks of 2GB each). I've got 6 slots for RAM, so I could theoretically load it up with 12 GB if I bought the cheap 2GB sticks. Is 12 gigs of RAM overkill? How much RAM do you guys have for your dev machines at home?
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
I have 6GB of memory on the home desktop (running 64 bit gentoo linux). This is all I need except most of the time however it would speed up things when I transcode a 4hr analog show if I either had more ram or a had a SSD. It's 6GB instead of 8GB because I got the 2.83 GHz Core2 quad + Q9550 CPU + motherboard (ASUS P5QPRO) and 2GB memory in a bundle for under $300 with the help of microsoft live.com on Black Friday. I added another 4GB of memory and a ANTEC 650W 80+ powersupply for less than $100 for both which brought the total to around $400 US for the whole upgrade.
John
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So I posted on CP last week about my Vista machine blue screening. It came down to a memory error. Someone suggested blowing the dust out of the RAM slots and swapping the 2 sticks. Good news: it seemed to work! I've been running for 2 days now without any blue screens, and the memory error detection tool in Vista can't find any errors. Wahooo! But it got me thinking: I'm running x64 with 4GB of RAM (2 sticks of 2GB each). I've got 6 slots for RAM, so I could theoretically load it up with 12 GB if I bought the cheap 2GB sticks. Is 12 gigs of RAM overkill? How much RAM do you guys have for your dev machines at home?
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
The more, the better. I just upgraded my home machine from 2 to 8 gigs. Turned out that 2 gigs is enough for Visual Studio 2008/C#, but near enough for that and SQL Server 2008. After the upgrade, everything is running very smoothly. I have 8 gigs in my work station. It's a quad core something, including a mirrored raid drive. I have C: for system components only, D: (mirrored raid) for compilation only. It's oversized (700 gigs), so that it won't fragment itself into fubarishness, and E: for apps. It's so crazy fast, it's just silly. Honestly, for the first time, I think I will be able to handle the next version of Visual Studio without having to upgrade.
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So I posted on CP last week about my Vista machine blue screening. It came down to a memory error. Someone suggested blowing the dust out of the RAM slots and swapping the 2 sticks. Good news: it seemed to work! I've been running for 2 days now without any blue screens, and the memory error detection tool in Vista can't find any errors. Wahooo! But it got me thinking: I'm running x64 with 4GB of RAM (2 sticks of 2GB each). I've got 6 slots for RAM, so I could theoretically load it up with 12 GB if I bought the cheap 2GB sticks. Is 12 gigs of RAM overkill? How much RAM do you guys have for your dev machines at home?
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
Judah Himango wrote:
Is 12 gigs of RAM overkill?
Of course, since "640K of RAM ought to be enough for anyone" (I've never confirmed though if that was really said). However, I just got a machine with 12GB DDR3 RAM in it, and it runs real nice. Vista and the Win7 RC don't even think about anything, they just do. Makes my work laptop with a "measly" 4GB of RAM feel pretty slow now! The motherboard on the new system can take up to 24GB of RAM, so it's going to get an upgrade when I can get my hands on 6 of those 4GB sticks. The main reason behind wanting so much RAM is for virtualization and some of the newer Microsoft operating systems... SBS 2008 runs through the Windows install just fine, but once the SBS component installation is started, you're screwed unless you have at least 4GB of RAM in the system as it halts the installation at that point. So if you want/need to play with Small Business or Essentials Business Server 2008 without having to buy 2 or 4 computers, virtualization is the next best thing, and you're going to need the RAM for virutal machines, let alone the host operating system.
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Judah Himango wrote:
Is 12 gigs of RAM overkill?
Of course, since "640K of RAM ought to be enough for anyone" (I've never confirmed though if that was really said). However, I just got a machine with 12GB DDR3 RAM in it, and it runs real nice. Vista and the Win7 RC don't even think about anything, they just do. Makes my work laptop with a "measly" 4GB of RAM feel pretty slow now! The motherboard on the new system can take up to 24GB of RAM, so it's going to get an upgrade when I can get my hands on 6 of those 4GB sticks. The main reason behind wanting so much RAM is for virtualization and some of the newer Microsoft operating systems... SBS 2008 runs through the Windows install just fine, but once the SBS component installation is started, you're screwed unless you have at least 4GB of RAM in the system as it halts the installation at that point. So if you want/need to play with Small Business or Essentials Business Server 2008 without having to buy 2 or 4 computers, virtualization is the next best thing, and you're going to need the RAM for virutal machines, let alone the host operating system.
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Luke Lovegrove wrote:
(I've never confirmed though if that was really said).
It's a well known hoax, Gates didn't really say that.
Luke Lovegrove wrote:
However, I just got a machine with 12GB DDR3 RAM in it, and it runs real nice. Vista and the Win7 RC don't even think about anything, they just do. Makes my work laptop with a "measly" 4GB of RAM feel pretty slow now!
I'm green with geek envy! And for only $150 I can get upgrade to 12GB (given I have 4GB now). That's not a bad deal. I just might do it.
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Luke Lovegrove wrote:
(I've never confirmed though if that was really said).
It's a well known hoax, Gates didn't really say that.
Luke Lovegrove wrote:
However, I just got a machine with 12GB DDR3 RAM in it, and it runs real nice. Vista and the Win7 RC don't even think about anything, they just do. Makes my work laptop with a "measly" 4GB of RAM feel pretty slow now!
I'm green with geek envy! And for only $150 I can get upgrade to 12GB (given I have 4GB now). That's not a bad deal. I just might do it.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
Judah Himango wrote:
It's a well known hoax, Gates didn't really say that.
At least now I know it's a hoax! I'd say upgrade if you can afford it though, should be worth every dollar!
------------------------ Luke Lovegrove ------------------------
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So I posted on CP last week about my Vista machine blue screening. It came down to a memory error. Someone suggested blowing the dust out of the RAM slots and swapping the 2 sticks. Good news: it seemed to work! I've been running for 2 days now without any blue screens, and the memory error detection tool in Vista can't find any errors. Wahooo! But it got me thinking: I'm running x64 with 4GB of RAM (2 sticks of 2GB each). I've got 6 slots for RAM, so I could theoretically load it up with 12 GB if I bought the cheap 2GB sticks. Is 12 gigs of RAM overkill? How much RAM do you guys have for your dev machines at home?
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
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So I posted on CP last week about my Vista machine blue screening. It came down to a memory error. Someone suggested blowing the dust out of the RAM slots and swapping the 2 sticks. Good news: it seemed to work! I've been running for 2 days now without any blue screens, and the memory error detection tool in Vista can't find any errors. Wahooo! But it got me thinking: I'm running x64 with 4GB of RAM (2 sticks of 2GB each). I've got 6 slots for RAM, so I could theoretically load it up with 12 GB if I bought the cheap 2GB sticks. Is 12 gigs of RAM overkill? How much RAM do you guys have for your dev machines at home?
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
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So I posted on CP last week about my Vista machine blue screening. It came down to a memory error. Someone suggested blowing the dust out of the RAM slots and swapping the 2 sticks. Good news: it seemed to work! I've been running for 2 days now without any blue screens, and the memory error detection tool in Vista can't find any errors. Wahooo! But it got me thinking: I'm running x64 with 4GB of RAM (2 sticks of 2GB each). I've got 6 slots for RAM, so I could theoretically load it up with 12 GB if I bought the cheap 2GB sticks. Is 12 gigs of RAM overkill? How much RAM do you guys have for your dev machines at home?
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
I have 4 Gb of RAM for 32-bit box. Next machine for me will be a 64-bit with at least 8Gb of RAM. As you afford to upgrade, should you upgrade? To 8Gb definitely! Please check your motherboard specifications to check if it can go to 12 Gb. Also there may be an O/A limit as I recall that Home Vista is limited to 8Gb, whereas Pro Vista will go to 16Gb.
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So I posted on CP last week about my Vista machine blue screening. It came down to a memory error. Someone suggested blowing the dust out of the RAM slots and swapping the 2 sticks. Good news: it seemed to work! I've been running for 2 days now without any blue screens, and the memory error detection tool in Vista can't find any errors. Wahooo! But it got me thinking: I'm running x64 with 4GB of RAM (2 sticks of 2GB each). I've got 6 slots for RAM, so I could theoretically load it up with 12 GB if I bought the cheap 2GB sticks. Is 12 gigs of RAM overkill? How much RAM do you guys have for your dev machines at home?
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
I've got 4 Gigs of RAM in my VAIO Z 13. To support to 2.53 C2D processor and NVIDIA 9300 GPU it takes that much...
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So I posted on CP last week about my Vista machine blue screening. It came down to a memory error. Someone suggested blowing the dust out of the RAM slots and swapping the 2 sticks. Good news: it seemed to work! I've been running for 2 days now without any blue screens, and the memory error detection tool in Vista can't find any errors. Wahooo! But it got me thinking: I'm running x64 with 4GB of RAM (2 sticks of 2GB each). I've got 6 slots for RAM, so I could theoretically load it up with 12 GB if I bought the cheap 2GB sticks. Is 12 gigs of RAM overkill? How much RAM do you guys have for your dev machines at home?
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
6GB so far and another 6GB coming this next week :-D , and with this build (i7 920 @ 3.2, 6GB 10666, Asus Gene II (capable of 24GB)) its the first time i actually like vista, before this i tried vista x86 (pre-SP1) with 3Gbs, and i freaking hated it so much i switched back to XP... the only thing i quite don't get is that the RAM being "used" is around 50% without any open program, that's obviously 3GB in apparently nothing... and i still wonder where the hell goes so much ram... but as the saying says, "when in doubt blame norton" so i blame thee norton (eventhou i dont have any norton product installed ;P )
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So I posted on CP last week about my Vista machine blue screening. It came down to a memory error. Someone suggested blowing the dust out of the RAM slots and swapping the 2 sticks. Good news: it seemed to work! I've been running for 2 days now without any blue screens, and the memory error detection tool in Vista can't find any errors. Wahooo! But it got me thinking: I'm running x64 with 4GB of RAM (2 sticks of 2GB each). I've got 6 slots for RAM, so I could theoretically load it up with 12 GB if I bought the cheap 2GB sticks. Is 12 gigs of RAM overkill? How much RAM do you guys have for your dev machines at home?
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
8G on each of two Vista x64 dev machines. I have never seen any single program use anything like that, but being dev machines, we frequently have two or three VMs (I can remember having 5 open once) running to check platform compatibility. At 1G each VM, that 8 Gig comes in very handy...
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So I posted on CP last week about my Vista machine blue screening. It came down to a memory error. Someone suggested blowing the dust out of the RAM slots and swapping the 2 sticks. Good news: it seemed to work! I've been running for 2 days now without any blue screens, and the memory error detection tool in Vista can't find any errors. Wahooo! But it got me thinking: I'm running x64 with 4GB of RAM (2 sticks of 2GB each). I've got 6 slots for RAM, so I could theoretically load it up with 12 GB if I bought the cheap 2GB sticks. Is 12 gigs of RAM overkill? How much RAM do you guys have for your dev machines at home?
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
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So I posted on CP last week about my Vista machine blue screening. It came down to a memory error. Someone suggested blowing the dust out of the RAM slots and swapping the 2 sticks. Good news: it seemed to work! I've been running for 2 days now without any blue screens, and the memory error detection tool in Vista can't find any errors. Wahooo! But it got me thinking: I'm running x64 with 4GB of RAM (2 sticks of 2GB each). I've got 6 slots for RAM, so I could theoretically load it up with 12 GB if I bought the cheap 2GB sticks. Is 12 gigs of RAM overkill? How much RAM do you guys have for your dev machines at home?
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
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So I posted on CP last week about my Vista machine blue screening. It came down to a memory error. Someone suggested blowing the dust out of the RAM slots and swapping the 2 sticks. Good news: it seemed to work! I've been running for 2 days now without any blue screens, and the memory error detection tool in Vista can't find any errors. Wahooo! But it got me thinking: I'm running x64 with 4GB of RAM (2 sticks of 2GB each). I've got 6 slots for RAM, so I could theoretically load it up with 12 GB if I bought the cheap 2GB sticks. Is 12 gigs of RAM overkill? How much RAM do you guys have for your dev machines at home?
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
2GB on my work machine with Vista which is nowhere near enough as I spend a lot of time waiting for the HD light to go out and things to start working again. 1.5 GB on my home machine with XP which is plenty even though I actually use it for more memory intensive programs.
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leppie wrote:
Just imagine how snappy everything will be when Windows does not need to ever go to the swap file!
That raises an interesting question I've been thinking about for a while. Given the amount of RAM that a lot of people have, what would happen if you just set the Swap file size to 0? Does Windows run faster? Will it even let you do this?
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I run Vista x64 on a box with 8GB of RAM and I've turned off the swap file. Hey I've lived with XPs 2GB address space for applications all these years without too much trouble, so 8GB should be enough. No problems so far, machine feels snappy. Nice to be able to switch users without hitting a swap file.
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I'm running ultimate, so 128 GB here I come! (I wish! :))
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Me too :D
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So I posted on CP last week about my Vista machine blue screening. It came down to a memory error. Someone suggested blowing the dust out of the RAM slots and swapping the 2 sticks. Good news: it seemed to work! I've been running for 2 days now without any blue screens, and the memory error detection tool in Vista can't find any errors. Wahooo! But it got me thinking: I'm running x64 with 4GB of RAM (2 sticks of 2GB each). I've got 6 slots for RAM, so I could theoretically load it up with 12 GB if I bought the cheap 2GB sticks. Is 12 gigs of RAM overkill? How much RAM do you guys have for your dev machines at home?
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
12GB on my new i7 920 machine. To be honest, I think its a bit overkill really as I've never seen less than 5GB free! even when running multiple copies of VS 2008, SQL server, VM's, office apps, browsers etc. I have disabled my swap file as it was huge! and have never ran into trouble. I have 8GB on my server (Quad Core) and 4GB on my Core 2 Duo laptop, all running on 64bit windows of course. The only reason I went to 12GB really was that my previous workstation had 8GB, and the motherboards was going to take either 6GB or 12GB and I wasnt going to end up with less on the new machine now was I :) Anyway, memory is so cheap nowadays. and more is always better (as long as you are on x64!) I remember paying 80 quid for 32MB years ago and I only paid slightly more for 6GB! Oh, and did I mention I have 4 monitors too :)
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So I posted on CP last week about my Vista machine blue screening. It came down to a memory error. Someone suggested blowing the dust out of the RAM slots and swapping the 2 sticks. Good news: it seemed to work! I've been running for 2 days now without any blue screens, and the memory error detection tool in Vista can't find any errors. Wahooo! But it got me thinking: I'm running x64 with 4GB of RAM (2 sticks of 2GB each). I've got 6 slots for RAM, so I could theoretically load it up with 12 GB if I bought the cheap 2GB sticks. Is 12 gigs of RAM overkill? How much RAM do you guys have for your dev machines at home?
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
Although VISTA 32 bit, in fact all 32bit OS can only use 3.25Gb I have 4Gb because it was a cheaper option. I also believe that a 64bit OS uses only 128Gb.
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So I posted on CP last week about my Vista machine blue screening. It came down to a memory error. Someone suggested blowing the dust out of the RAM slots and swapping the 2 sticks. Good news: it seemed to work! I've been running for 2 days now without any blue screens, and the memory error detection tool in Vista can't find any errors. Wahooo! But it got me thinking: I'm running x64 with 4GB of RAM (2 sticks of 2GB each). I've got 6 slots for RAM, so I could theoretically load it up with 12 GB if I bought the cheap 2GB sticks. Is 12 gigs of RAM overkill? How much RAM do you guys have for your dev machines at home?
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
32-bit OS has limitation of 4GB RAM. BIOS will start the CPU in long (64-bit) mode and manages the RAM. Almost all 4GB will be in lower 4GB address space (there is ACPI, memory mapped device and SMM memory that will consume ~1MB of address space so you can access 3.99GB memory). If you install 12GB memory and x86 OS you will have 12GB memory, but only ~4GB will be accessible. x64 OS has limitation 64 exabytes (64*pow(10,60) bytes) address space, so you will no problem to map even 100GB of memory. Windows allows most x86 programs to start on WOWx64 emulator without problems, so WOW emulator is MS product that rox :) I have 2GB RAM installed - 1.75GB available and 256MB shared to video card.