How much RAM do you have? (MS Windows)

[sukarof]

I read here and there about people complaining about how much memory a software uses.
I thought it would be nice to see how much internal memory people have in general.
I have 1024MB and I rarely have less than 300MB free at all times so I dont care much about if a firewall or a Antivirus uses, lets say 60-100MB RAM, as long as it doesnt use the CPU too much all the time or makes my computer slow.
Right now I have 48 processes running in the background including Firefox (80MB) running in awindow.
So, those who complain about RAM usage; do you have alot of applications open (like MS office, Paintshop or other software that uses extremly much memory all the time?

[TOMxEU]

I have 1024 MB and hardly use more than 300 MB, when "fully loaded" (22 processes (http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/6484/3as1.jpg)):
Like running apps: Azureus, Email Notication, IE, IM, OpenOffice, Windows Media Player.
After startup I have 12 apps running (http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7415/4iz2.jpg) and 835 MB Free RAM (http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/4268/1ez3.jpg) thanks to nLite and reg tweaks.
I started to tweak to get more RAM for new games, but so far I have not play any new game.

[Tommy]

1024 but as @TheTOM_SK mostly using less than 300MB.

[WSFuser]

the computer im currently using has 512mb with 64mb set aside for integrated graphics and i have about 160mb free. without any open applications, i have 29 processes running.

and after launching firefox, my available memeory dropped to about 60mb.

[mercurie]

My personal PC I voted what it has 256. However the family machine uses 512. I wish there was a way I could have polled this for both. :-\

By the way so far as I can tell I suffer no ill effects from such a lower amount of RAM. :-\

[snowbound]

256 here on my old Dell. :blink: ;D

Lots of free space though so speed is exceptional for that little ram.



snowbound

[timcan]

1024 on my xp professional
640 on an older xp home

[nadirah]

I'm already planning to bring my OEM-manufactured Packard Bell computer down to the local comp shop at the nearby shopping mall to get some upgrades.

Or should I call the manufacturer to do it? :-\

[bigc73542]

two gigs of ram.

[snowbound]

-{ Quote: "two gigs of ram." }-
:o ;D



snowbound

[WSFuser]

-{ Quote: "I'm already planning to bring my OEM-manufactured Packard Bell computer down to the local comp shop at the nearby shopping mall to get some upgrades.

Or should I call the manufacturer to do it? :-\" }-
a local shop should be able to handle a task like upgrading memory. u could even do it yourself. just pikc the method youre most comfortable with.

[Carver]

384mb on my 8 year old dell (thats maxed out). 1 Gig on this one.

[the Tester]

512mb on XP Home.
Plan on getting another 256mb after upgrading the wife's computer memory.

[jadinolf]

3 computers
384
512
1024

Yep, they're old.:(

[Mrkvonic]

Hello,
A total of:

400
512
512
512
768
1024
2048

=> 6288MB

Mrk

[marcromero]

I have a laptop with 512 installed, I rarely use over 200-250 at any one time, I'm usually under 200 most of the time.

[pykko]

768 here. ;D

[MikeBCda]

256M on a 4-year-old OEM with XP home. I'm not into high-demand games or much streaming media, and so far it's been quite happy. Once we get to the point where we've no choice but Vista, of course, will be another story -- but I'll no doubt be looking at a new system by then anyway.

For my purposes, the main bottleneck is my dialup, not anything in the computer itself.

[YeOldeStonecat]

7168 megs.

Primary gaming rig...2 gigs

Secondary rig...1.5 gigs

SBS2K3 server at home..1.5 gigs

Work workstation...1.0 gig

Laptop...a measly 512 megs...wanting to beef up to a gig.

Endian router (linux based firewall) 512 megs

Many of todays online first person shooter games without question perform much better with more than a gig of RAM in the system. You can easily feel the performance difference...running task manager see that it does use it.

[ASpace]

Windows XP Home Service Pack 2 512 Mb RAM
In use no more than 200 ;D ;D ;D

I am advanced user ;D

[WSFuser]

@YeOldeStonecat - so two gigs is better than one for FPS type games?

[Mrkvonic]

-{ Quote: "@YeOldeStonecat - so two gigs is better than one for FPS type games?" }-

Hello,
As another gamer, I confirm this warmly.
Mrk

[Alphalutra1]

1 GB on my main comp which is windows xp home, but 256 MB on my Arch linux install (actually, the arch install is faster except when it comes to things like photo editing, games, and resource intensive apps since the processor has a third of the power and it has a fourth of the RAM and a 16 MB graphics card :gack: ).

Cheers,
Alphalutra1

[Pieter_Arntz]

1024 MB

It gets a bit slow when I start more then one Virtual Machine ;D

[ErikAlbert]

2048 RAM. I just didn't want any memory problems anymore with any kind of application.

[Peter2150]

-{ Quote: "2048 RAM. I just didn't want any memory problems anymore with any kind of application." }-

I did the same thing on my new machine. One thing we sometimes forget is graphic's which are very compute intensive. On my new box I have 2 graphic's cards each of which has 256MB of memory, and slightly overclocked. This way each monitor has it's own dedicated card. Even in every day stuff the way windows react is downright amazing.

[JuniorSZ]

Pc1 > WinXP P4@1.8 *1024mb
Pc2 > WinVista RC1 P4@2.8 *1024mb
Pc3 > WinXP P4@2.4 *1024mb
Pc4 > WinXP/linux(slackware) P4@2.6 *1024mb
Pc5 > Win98/linux(Debian) P3@866 *256mb
Pc6 > Win98 K6@300 *128mb
Pc7 > OSX PowerPC G4@700 *512mb
Pc8 > AMIGA WorKBench 3 Motorola@25mHz *8mb ;D

[Huwge]

Two Gigs here

[sosaiso]

256 here. Runs fine with about 27 processes in the background.

I've learned to use the least resource hungry applications when I boot up into Windows. Which means replacing heavier AV's with things like CA, torrent clients with either Bitcomet or Utorrent, turning off every single service that I do not need, and running at most 8 programs at one time.

It feels kind of weird having RAM free though [in Linux I have about 4 MB of memory free ever]. But I guess that how different OS's deal with things.

[gerardwil]

I could run my system like the attached screenshot: 137 Mb with all security apps running and only 2 MS processes. I even use internet then. hmmm... I can't get windows shut down, only by pulling the plug. ;D
But I run 1024 Mb with few more processes running ;)

Gerard

[ThunderZ]

Thinkpad lap top maxed at 512 WinXP Pro Sp2 ::)
Wife`s garage build = 2 gigs Win XP Pro Sp2 :D
My garage build = 4 gigs :o Win 2k (I know Windows only recognizes just over 3 gig but have read it will use up to 3.5.......so I just maxed out my new mobos compacity.) ;D

[TonyW]

One computer here and 256MB RAM.

[WSFuser]

-{ Quote: "I could run my system like the attached screenshot: 137 Mb with all security apps running and only 2 MS processes. I even use internet then. hmmm... I can't get windows shut down, only by pulling the plug. ;D
But I run 1024 Mb with few more processes running ;)

Gerard" }-
howd u do that? :o ??? :blink:

[gerardwil]

-{ Quote: "howd u do that? :o ??? :blink:" }-

http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/07/running-windows-with-no-services.html

[Arup]

4GB DDR800 on my core2duo system running XP64.

[iceni60]

i have 2 gigs. i think with all this virtual stuff coming out 2 gigs may not be alot in a about 12 months. i have a great virtual machine called xen - it's very similar to vmware ESX server 8)

[sweater]

256MB RAM as I only uses my pc for surfing the web and only 2-3 hrs daily most of the time, but planning to make it 512MB Ram. ;)

[SourMilk]

I'm a gamer (Oblivion mostly now, Gothic 3 in the near future) and I need more memory than most. I run 2GB without any problems. I might be able to get by with less, but I am not taking any chances. If I weren't running such intensive games, 512MB would suit me fine.

[King FN Kong]

512 here, which I use most of the time. Surfing, basic word processing, etc...

I have 2 gigs on another machine for multimedia and gaming.

[YeOldeStonecat]

-{ Quote: "@YeOldeStonecat - so two gigs is better than one for FPS type games?" }-

I have seen the difference myself...a while ago, I was running 1 gig of my P4c rig...playing Battlefield '42, DC, Vietnam, and BF2 often. I came across a pair of 256 sticks from a upgrade...added those into my rig..hence having 1.5 gigs. I noticed BF:V and BF2 ran quite a bit smoother. BF'42/DC..not much diff..older game engine, didn't use all that much RAM. I ran task manager while playing them...I'd notice the game .exe itself bouncing around 899 - 950 megs of RAM. You need to leave at least another hundred megs free for Windows to run in the background. The more RAM a game engine can utilize..the less "hard drive hits" it requires as you're playing. Thus..smoother gameplay.

So my answer is...yes...depending on the games you play....if they will benefit from being able to run more of the game in RAM.

Video RAM...for gaming, don't forget todays newer games, especially for many gamers who run at such high resolutions on 18, 19, 20, 24, even 30" LCD monitors now. I just picked up the ATI x1900xt for my new Conroe rig. 512 megs of vid RAM. This is the year some newer games are benefitting from that over 256 meg cards.

[optigrab]

1024 on my new-ish laptop. Tempted to bump it up to 2 gigs in order to test out some modern games. But RAM prices have jumped in the past few weeks, and I'm crazy to think the family will ever afford me enough time for games. :'(

[Trooper]

I have two gigs of RAM in my pc. Mainly because I am a gamer. ;D

[Phoinix]

2 Computers,

AMD Sempron 2600+ with 1024 MB

Intel Pentium D 805 (Dualcore) with 2048 MB ;D

Greets :blink:

[ElPiedra]

Laptop - 2Gb

Desktop - 1Gb

Desktop II - 1Gb

Salu2

[Hermescomputers]

4 Gig ECC DDR SDRAM (Dual processor Opteron's 246) with 3 250 Gig SATA II Hard Disk on Windows XP X64
The Minimum requirement to browse the internet and read e-mail...
Hehehehe...

[new_age]

I have 768 total. I use my on-board graphics which uses 64MB leaving 704MB on my computer. I only use up alittle bit over 300MB :)

[beetlejuice69]

I had 1 gig but put in another 1 gig stick yesterday. Worked good before, works better now. ;)

[new_age]

-{ Quote: "I had 1 gig but put in another 1 gig stick yesterday. Worked good before, works better now. ;)" }-No surprise there... ::)

[WigglyTheGreat]

Gaming desktop computer = 2 gb
Laptop = 1gb
Old win 98 desktop = 384 mb

[Franklin]

SDram, DDR or DDR2 ?

How I think ram works.Not an expert by any means.:)

SDram - single data read with sticks working independantly.

DDR - double data read requiring two sticks of the same DDR ram working together to achieve true double data read.If only one stick of DDR ram is used it will only work as SDram.???

DDR2 - quad data read similar to DDR in needing two sticks of the same DDR2 ram to work properly.If a single stick of DDR2 is used you can only achieve DDR.

Quite a while ago that I read up on ram and am probably not at current levels so please correct any of my assertions.

[WSFuser]

Franklin, i suggest u read up on the differences between memory. google and wikipedia are your friends :thumb:

DDR and DDR2 dont need to be run in pairs, but it does improve performance.

[Brian N]

1G - Plenty for me, but 2G's will soon be the standard I think. Blame the game makers ;)

[ThunderZ]

-{ Quote: "1G - Plenty for me, but 2G's will soon be the standard I think. Blame the game makers ;)" }-


........and Windows Vista. :o ;)

[WizardMaster]

Wow, all comment is really smart machine !!

Desktop Win2K - 1Gb
Laptop WinXPP - 1Gb
Server Win2K3SBS-R2 - 2Gb (later increase to 32Gb !!..Psst She is XEON Dual Core !!)

Other Seven WorkStations is Maximum 512Mb. Too bad Staffs ! (hehe)

[Hermescomputers]

-{ Quote: "DDR and DDR2 dont need to be run in pairs, but it does improve performance" }-

Here is my two cents on the pairing of memory when done for performance instead of compatibility. Doing so provides some gains however you must be mindful of chip timing and if SIMMS chip rows are single/double sided and to match speed ratings, issues affecting performance will develop if you use differently timed chips in the wrong sequential order in the sockets.

However there is a "Bus" technology providing improved memory performance and it Is called "Dual Channel" and if your motherboard has supports for dual channel it does substantially improve memory performance. You don’t need to purchase “Special Dual channel kits” to get the benefit but you must try and match timings to get optimal performance gains. (The best and highest "Dual Channel" performing boards are AMD based).

[Franklin]

Bit of an ad for Corsair towards the end but quite a good presentation on the workings of ram.

http://www.corsairmicro.com/memory_basics/153707/index.html

[Hermescomputers]

This really is great presentation with nice simple graphs. I thought they did oversimplify things a bit…

Here’s Kingston version of the “Ultimate Memory Guide”. This paper does drill in quite a bit of details on configuration and pre requisites as well as comparative load.

http://www.kingston.com/tools/UMG/default.asp

Hope this helps!

[ThunderZ]

-{ Quote: "This really is great presentation with nice simple graphs. I thought they did oversimplify things a bit…

Here’s Kingston version of the “Ultimate Memory Guide”. This paper does drill in quite a bit of details on configuration and pre requisites as well as comparative load.

http://www.kingston.com/tools/UMG/default.asp

Hope this helps!" }-


Thanks for the link to the info. Have always been a Kingston user. :thumb:

[The Gorilla]

1024 installed never use more than 350 though.

[Security Freak]

1024 too

[sukarof]

I have now upgraded to 2048MB (dual channel mode) mainly to have spare memory for VMWare. But I have recently discovered the yahoo widgets toys. They take some memory, but they are fun :) it is nice not to have to worry about memory consumption anymore :)

I did try 1.5GB but I did get BSOD´s with that amount for some reason, but when I installed one more 512MB stick the BSOD disappeared.

Kingston Valueram 512x2 and Samsung 512x2

[Security Freak]

very soon i go to ad one 1024 more

[Demoras]

I've got 2048MB in my machine :)

[Franklin]

-{ Quote: "
I did try 1.5GB but I did get BSOD´s with that amount for some reason, but when I installed one more 512MB stick the BSOD disappeared.
" }-
Same here.With only three ram slots seems I will have to get two sticks of 1 gig ddr to upgrade for Vista.

Knowing what I know now I would have made sure my mobo was able to take 4 sticks which was bought just over 2 years ago.

Motherboard ECS 648FX-A

Might be time to hand down this pc to one of the kids and go all out on a newie.

4 gig ddr2 sounds good just for starters.LOL :)

[farmerlee]

I'm running windows 2003 with 1024mb RAM (2 x 512mb @ 667mhz).
24 running processes, around 750mb free.

[twl845]

My 2 year old Dell has 1024gb of ram. I got it for the future, rather than get 512 and 3 years from now have to buy more. Remember in 1997 when 16mb of ram was enough?

[DVD+R]

Ahem! :isay: well believe it or not, I just upgraded my 3,62Ghz Machine to 4GB of RAM and a 500GB Hard Drive8) Purrrsssss Like A Kitten;D

[JimIT]

XP Pro: 384 MB. Athlon XP2000+ chip. Runs faster than many 3GHZ machines with 1GB. It's all how you set 'em up, baby. 8)

2K Laptop: 96 MB. Celeron 400mhz. Not fast, but fast enough. 8)

[farmerlee]

-{ Quote: "Ahem! :isay: well believe it or not, I just upgraded my 3,62Ghz Machine to 4GB of RAM and a 500GB Hard Drive8) Purrrsssss Like A Kitten;D" }-
Thats a heck of a lot of ram, what exectly do you need it all for?

[ThunderZ]

-{ Quote: "Ahem! :isay: well believe it or not, I just upgraded my 3,62Ghz Machine to 4GB of RAM and a 500GB Hard Drive8) Purrrsssss Like A Kitten;D" }-

-{ Quote: "Thinkpad lap top maxed at 512 WinXP Pro Sp2 ::)
Wife`s garage build = 2 gigs Win XP Pro Sp2 :D
My garage build = 4 gigs :o Win 2k (I know Windows only recognizes just over 3 gig but have read it will use up to 3.5.......so I just maxed out my new mobos compacity.) ;D" }-


Ahem.....beat ya to it. :o Got me on the HDD though. ;D ;)

[twl845]

OK 3 or 4 gigs. Farmerlee doesn't care, he wants to know why? ??? ;D

[rx2pc]

2 Giggies here:D

[[suave]]

1 gig of ram here. :)

The next PC I build for myself will have 2 gigs ;D

[incursari]

2256 mb RAM here.

[ThunderZ]

-{ Quote: "2256 mb RAM here." }-


??? Do you mean 2x256=512?

[incursari]

-{ Quote: "??? Do you mean 2x256=512?" }-

I mean 2.25 GB of RAM.

[Mele20]

I have 2048MB in 4 512MB sticks of matched pairs of DDR 533MHz RAM for a hyperthreading Pentium 4 at 3.8GHz. I have 63 processes running and only have 491MB RAM free. I need at least 1GB more RAM. But Dell sent this machine with 512 sticks instead of 1GB sticks which means I have to sell two of the sticks so I can put in two matching 1GB sticks. That is a hassle.

I don't plan on ever getting Vista but if I wanted to upgrade this 8 month old Dell XPS 600 to Vista I would have to get more memory before I did that. A Vista machine running even just one VMWare virtual machine (and I have two running at the moment (one being Ubuntu) would need a bare minimum of 3GB RAM and really should have 4GB. XP Pro runs fine on 2GB RAM with one virtual machine running...with two running...well, you see I don't have much RAM now if I want to open any other RAM intensive application.

I say one cannot have enough RAM. I had 1GB on my earlier XP Pro machine and that was not nearly enough even without VMWare. I can't imagine how anyone can run XP Pro and only have 20-30 processes running. I have never had less than 55.

[ThunderZ]

-{ Quote: "I say one cannot have enough RAM" }-

Total agreement.

-{ Quote: "I have never had less than 55." }-

:o WOW...... Everyone has different ways of how\what is acceptable in running their PCs. I am on a 6 PC network. Basically 4 wired, 1 wireless and one that switches from wired to wirless regularly. File and printer sharing is enabled on several. Of the 3 PCs under my control, 28 is the most running on start-up (WinXP Pro on 2 Gigs of ram). That includes all security apps. On my old wired\wireless laptop (WinXP Pro maxed at 512) only 17. That includes Microsofts Private Folder......kind of like that little program. :-[

[ThunderZ]

-{ Quote: "I mean 2.25 GB of RAM." }-


Just trying to do the math and stick configuration in my head. 2.25 would be 1024+1024+128=2176 Just curious is all. :)

[337]

1 gig in all 5 XP machines.:thumb:

[incursari]

-{ Quote: "Just trying to do the math and stick configuration in my head. 2.25 would be 1024+1024+128=2176 Just curious is all. :)" }-

Take a look at the screenshot. I’m too lazy to open up my casing to check.

[ThunderZ]

-{ Quote: "Take a look at the screenshot. I’m too lazy to open up my casing to check." }-


;D No problem. Just seemed to be a strange total is all. ;)

[Nick Rhodes]

I have 512 mb on my laptop which is my main machine, but i'd need atleast a gig, if I could off load a lot of the work to my server (which has 512mb ram).

[Rita]

1024 ram

[manOFpeace]

1024 here. On advice of my son. ::)

[phasechange]

2GB on desktop, no idea on work laptop, 512MB on W2k3 Server. My server runs Slimserver and some other light processes and that's it. 512MB is fine.

[Peter2150]

-{ Quote: "I have 2048MB in 4 512MB sticks of matched pairs of DDR 533MHz RAM for a hyperthreading Pentium 4 at 3.8GHz. I have 63 processes running and only have 491MB RAM free. I need at least 1GB more RAM. But Dell sent this machine with 512 sticks instead of 1GB sticks which means I have to sell two of the sticks so I can put in two matching 1GB sticks. That is a hassle.

I don't plan on ever getting Vista but if I wanted to upgrade this 8 month old Dell XPS 600 to Vista I would have to get more memory before I did that. A Vista machine running even just one VMWare virtual machine (and I have two running at the moment (one being Ubuntu) would need a bare minimum of 3GB RAM and really should have 4GB. XP Pro runs fine on 2GB RAM with one virtual machine running...with two running...well, you see I don't have much RAM now if I want to open any other RAM intensive application.

I say one cannot have enough RAM. I had 1GB on my earlier XP Pro machine and that was not nearly enough even without VMWare. I can't imagine how anyone can run XP Pro and only have 20-30 processes running. I have never had less than 55." }-

I totally agree. My Laptop has 1Gb, my newest running Desktop has 2Gb, and the new machine that just arrived and still in the box has 4Gb. VM here I come.

[Gideon]

I now have 1024. I removed 1024 when we built my sons PC. I do fine with one gig on XP Pro,P4, with 256 MB on the video card

[Mrkvonic]

Hello,

I noticed people mention processes and usage.

On my 2GB machine, I'm running 45-50 processes on average, and rarely even use more than 400MB, and that's days after reboot. Just after restart, the memory usage is about 250MB.

I really don't understand how people with 1GB or even more manage to clog themselves up. With Firefox and 40-50 tabs, I hardly ever exceed 500MB.

Mrk

[Hermescomputers]

(MS Windows XP Pro X64) This my resources utilization after a small game (BF2) using Mercenaries Mod.
I average always over 60 Processes with somewhere between 1.2 - 1.4 Gig of RAM used out of 4.

The most I have ever utilized out of the 4 Gig RAM was 2.4 Gig and it usually is when I play BF2 and I have one or two VMware virtual machines running in the background... I max out around 27 % Peak Physical memory use... Which means I am wasting roughly over 2 Gig of physical RAM on a typical day. If my use which is rather heavy compared to the average users is any indications, probably no one would benefit much above 2 gig ram...

The sweet spot seems to over @ about 2 Gig max. which allows the system to use a nice chunk before it actually turns to Swap for Mem tasks thus greatly improving performance in all areas. i.e: disk, Io and so on. (Remember Swap is disk use to compensate for low RAM availability.) Reduce swap use and you will proportionately gain in performance... Not to mention increase the life span of your Hard disk. Conversely if you really want to improve system performance move the remainder swap file to another disk (not another partition since it only minimally will increase performance).

[Meriadoc]

I've just built a new machine and dedicated just over 1Gig to Windows out of 4Gig. I have 58 processes.

[Hermescomputers]

-{ Quote: "I've just built a new machine and dedicated just over 1Gig to Windows out of 4Gig. I have 58 processes." }-


Could you elaborate on (Dedicated 1 gig out of 4)?

[Meriadoc]

-{ Quote: "Could you elaborate on (Dedicated 1 gig out of 4)?" }-
Yeah sure, it a quad processor, I got 4Gigs of Ram so I can allocate a gig or more to Windows.

[YeOldeStonecat]

-{ Quote: "

I really don't understand how people with 1GB or even more manage to clog themselves up. With Firefox and 40-50 tabs, I hardly ever exceed 500MB.

Mrk" }-

Depends what software you're using. I wouldn't necessarily saying that using a gig or more of RAM is "clogging it up!"

Some people use software that requires lots of RAM. Games. Or some design software like various versions of CAD. Myself...I've seen some versions of the popular online FPS game Battlefield nudge to the gig of RAM mark when loading large maps with lots of online players.

I don't consider using RAM a bad thing..I like to play some games that require a good amount of horsepower to run well, that's why I bought the RAM.

RAM is so dirt cheap these days anyways...why not spend a few extra bucks to stuff the box full of it.

[Hermescomputers]

-{ Quote: "Yeah sure, it a quad processor, I got 4Gigs of Ram so I can allocate a gig or more to Windows." }-

Do you mean you allocated physical simm banks from a Hardware perspective when you load the Memory banks and not a software based allocation?

[lucas1985]

I´ve managed to run XP on 128 MB of RAM. IMHO:
-512 MB is the minimun for light multitasking, most of the games
-1024 MB is the sweet spot
-2048 MB only for heavy multitasking, the lastest games and the heavy "Pro" apps
-4096 MB for 64-bit OS and heavy workstations

[Hermescomputers]

-{ Quote: "I´ve managed to run XP on 128 MB of RAM. IMHO:
-512 MB is the minimun for light multitasking, most of the games
-1024 MB is the sweet spot
-2048 MB only for heavy multitasking, the lastest games and the heavy "Pro" apps
-4096 MB for 64-bit OS and heavy workstations" }-

I am running XP Pro X64 with 4 gigs and pushing it hard and never used above 2.3 Gigs Ram. I tried trust me... :-*

[lucas1985]

-{ Quote: "I am running XP Pro X64 with 4 gigs and pushing it hard and never used above 2.3 Gigs Ram. I tried trust me" }-
Good to know. Just for curiosity, have you tried HD video editing?
What about Vista? Seems to be a memory hog

[Hermescomputers]

-{ Quote: "Good to know. Just for curiosity, have you tried HD video editing?
What about Vista? Seems to be a memory hog" }-

No, not really. I am more of a systems geek. However I did do some setups/Admin for clients who do.
They all swear on Opteron and XP Pro X64 now.

I only tried Vista inside a virtual machine where I had only allocated 1Gig of RAM so I cant really offer good insight from that perspective. However I probably wont bother with Vista for a while... There is not enough there for me to really get excited about yet. I have used the "Kool" interface via WindowBlinds for some time and I am already running things in 64 bit. I just like the performance of X64. It's stable, secured and fast...

[Meriadoc]

-{ Quote: "Do you mean you allocated physical simm banks from a Hardware perspective when you load the Memory banks and not a software based allocation?" }-
Ah, I maybe should of added abit more, I run a few Virtual Machines.

[Hermescomputers]

-{ Quote: "Ah, I maybe should of added abit more, I run a few Virtual Machines." }-

Aaaaah.... now ya make sense!

I gotabit confused because with a multiprocessor Opteron setup you have individual RAM banks for each processors. So 4 CPU's = 4 banks of 4 sockets each.

I thought maybe ya was allocating dedicated processor memory or entire banks to specific software chunks via some trick "I" didn't know about... (Outside of VM's of course)... ;)

[Ice_Czar]

4GB PC2700 ECC & Registered (Crucial)

of course thats just a single 1GB stick for each channel for each processor on a K8W with dual 244 Opterons

[C.S.J]

-{ Quote: "4GB PC2700 ECC & Registered (Crucial)

of course thats just a single 1GB stick for each channel for each processor on a K8W with dual 244 Opterons" }-
2gb DDR2 ram here,
amd dual core Turion x2

[pipester]

A 512 stick on my aging Gateway laptop.

[Hyperion]

2x1 GB DDR400

[Dude111]

I only have 56 Megs of ram (Well 64 but 8 are shared with monitor)

I would like to get more though (Sometimes things get slow when the ram is used up and the swap file is being used)

Nice site here!!

[HURST]

-{ Quote: "I only have 56 Megs of ram (Well 64 but 8 are shared with monitor)

I would like to get more though (Sometimes things get slow when the ram is used up and the swap file is being used)

Nice site here!!" }-

WTF? Are you using a 286 with Win 3.1?? Can you even run apps with that RAM?


BTW, I have a gig. No use for more on my XP SP3 laptop.

[bigc73542]

DDR2 PC2-5300 4 gigs

[twl845]

-{ Quote: "WTF? Are you using a 286 with Win 3.1?? Can you even run apps with that RAM?


BTW, I have a gig. No use for more on my XP SP3 laptop." }-
That sounds like a 1999 W98 box to me. I bought a computer with 95 megs in 2000 and thought that was hot. ;D

[HURST]

-{ Quote: "That sounds like a 1999 W98 box to me. I bought a computer with 95 megs in 2000 and thought that was hot. ;D" }-


You are right, the Win 3.1 boxes I used at school had 8 or 16 megs.... And now that you mention it, I remember trying XP on a 64 Meg computer when it first came out...that was a disaster

[icr]

4 GB of ram on my ASUS

[Dude111]

-{ Quote: "WTF? Are you using a 286 with Win 3.1?? Can you even run apps with that RAM?" }-No im using Win98se :)

98se is one of my favourite os's :) (Provided you have enough ram (Which i really dont considering all i do (It gets used up fast)))

[twl845]

-{ Quote: "No im using Win98se :)

98se is one of my favourite os's :) (Provided you have enough ram (Which i really dont considering all i do (It gets used up fast)))" }-
If you haven't done so already, you can probably add another 200megs of Ram to the computer, if the computer is of the vintage I think it is. I did it to mine on my W98 box, and it was enough to do the trick. You still won't be able to buy software though. You can buy a new computer with all the required Ram for about twice what the added Ram will cost on your present set up.

[nightfox]

I have 2Gb on my Sony Vaio running with Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit.

Works really smoothly:)

[Murderlove]

I have 4GB. I run Windows XP Pro 32-bits, but disabled unnecessary services. Runs smooth 8)

[whitedragon551]

3Gbs of DDR2 CL4 RAM. Im upgrading my laptop to 4Gbs with 2x2Gbs dual channel kits.

[noone_particular]

-{ Quote: "No im using Win98se :)

98se is one of my favourite os's :) (Provided you have enough ram (Which i really dont considering all i do (It gets used up fast)))" }-
Check the local computer shop. You might find a used stick or 2 dirt cheap. My 98 box came with 64MB, 2-32MB sticks. I picked up a used 128MB stick for $10. 98 will run very well on 160MB. 64MB can go farther than you expect, if you choose apps that don't waste it, such as security suites and most MS software. IE6 is one of the worst on 98 for wasting memory.

Although the thread title didn't say it, the poll was for XP units.

[Dude111]

-{ Quote: "Although the thread title didn't say it, the poll was for XP units." }-Yes how silly of me i didnt even notice it said "XP"..

Ah well :)

[farmerlee]

Current systems.

Dell m1730 running Windows Vista Ultimate64 with 4gb ram.
Dell 1520 running Windows XP with 3gb ram.
Sony Vaio TZ running Windows Vista Business with 2gb ram.
Compaq C700 running Windows Vista Basic with 1gb ram.
Thinkpad X23 running Windows XP with 256mb ram.

[YeOldeStonecat]

Time to edit those options on the poll..."More than 1024" as the highest option..that's going to skyrocket now.

Workstation at the office, 4 gigs..Vista
Primary gaming workstation at home, 3.5 gigs, XP pro
Primary T60p laptop, 4 gigs...Vista/openSUSE (although Vista really only uses 3 on this chipset)
Secondary laptop, T41, 1.5 gigs, XPp/Ubuntu
Third laptop, Sony junker, 512 megs, XPp
4th laptop, T23, 256 megs, PFSense *nix
Another gaming rig, 1.5 gigs, XPp
Downstairs PC for wife, 1 gig, XPp

[Threedog]

3 Gigs here on my main rig. Most memory intensive app I would run would be free cell so the 3 gigs is definately overkill. But hey....that's what happens from watching too much Home Improvment.

More Power!!!!!!! ;D

[rookieman]

I've got 3 desktops and 1 laptop.2 desktops have 2 gigs and the other has 3 gigs.The laptop has 1 gig.I can say the 3 gigs with vista is half decent.;)

[Osaban]

Asus W2P, Vista Ultimate32, 2 GB Ram (average memory use between 550-850 MB, Antivirus + Browser running)
Compaq Presario B3800, XP Home, 512 MB Ram (average memory use 300-350 MB, Antivirus + Browser running)

[TOMxEU]

8GB RAM, but I mostly use 1-2 GB only, never more than 4GB, so I disabled pagefile to take some advatage of it, but I still think, that it is wasted.
Running Vista Home Premium x64, Avira Free, PrevxCSI Free, Windows Defender and Windows Firewall. Ussually 50 processes (http://ulozisko.sk/obrazky/93314/capture_10182008_111425.jpg) and 1,5GB RAM usage (http://www.ulozisko.sk/obrazky/93316/capture_10182008_111435.jpg).

[wtsinnc]

2.5 gig.

My dell E510 came with four 256 mb sticks. I removed two of them (slots 1 and 2) and added a pair of Corsair value select 1 gb sticks.

I run XP primarily but occasionally Vista Ultimate just for a change of scenery. My video card is an ATI X300- very basic ! After adding the RAM, performance is smoother and faster boot-up. With prices so low, I'm tempted to add another 1 gig pair but I'm not a gamer, just internet surfing and occasional DVD backup so I'm pretty doubtful I'd see much improvement for the money.

[Coolio10]

4gb with vista home premium. 4x1gb sticks preinstalled when bought computer.

Never used half except when running vmware.

[blacknight]

XP Pro: 3 GB.

[EASTER]

512Mb

Go ahead an laugh :dry:

In the future when i get time i'll ramp it up triple, but it's amazing that with such meager memory i'm able on XP Pro to run an enterprise of various security programs, vista mimic customizations, and multi-task with no impact on performance at all.

I owe it all to my MoBo i believe. The PCchips circuit board i been using for 4 years simply is a workhorse. Also i defrag regularly as well as clear away session files on a schedule as in daily.

My XP Pro zips along with no problems. I count that as fortunate.

EASTER

[farmerlee]

-{ Quote: "512Mb

Go ahead an laugh :dry:

In the future when i get time i'll ramp it up triple, but it's amazing that with such meager memory i'm able on XP Pro to run an enterprise of various security programs, vista mimic customizations, and multi-task with no impact on performance at all.

I owe it all to my MoBo i believe. The PCchips circuit board i been using for 4 years simply is a workhorse. Also i defrag regularly as well as clear away session files on a schedule as in daily.

My XP Pro zips along with no problems. I count that as fortunate.

EASTER" }-
Hey i originally ran XP on a pentium 2 266mhz with 64mb of ram. Now that was slow! I still have an old thinkpad running XP on a mobile pentium 866mhz and 256mb of ram and its hums along quite nicely for its age.

[progress]

Win 7 - 3 GB :thumb:

[Fuzzfas]

Since i moved to Win7x 64 : 8 GB DDR2 (4x2GB modules).

[SafetyFirst]

XP Pro: 4x1 GB RAM

[icr]

Windows XP SP3 4 GB of RAM

[subhrobhandari]

512+256 MB-64 MB for shared graphics card=702 MB. I am running 24 processes including one firefox, two prevx, two ESS, one A2M processes and its taking only 300 MB of RAM and 200 MB of VM. Guess how optimized my PC is!

Note: All security running with full protection with full HIPS.

[xxJackxx]

This poll needs to be redone, or have more options added. I have 8GB with Windows 7 at this point. My graphics card has 2GB.

[progress]

-{ Quote: "This poll needs to be redone, or have more options added. I have 8GB with Windows 7 at this point. My graphics card has 2GB." }-

Here (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=258251) you are :)

[tipstir]

Wired Desktop
------------------------
GiG Wired Server #1 / 1GB
GIG Wired Desktop #2 / 1GB
GIG Wired Desktop #3 / 1GB
GiG Wired Desktoop #4/ 1GB

RAM Total 4GB

Wireless Laptops
----------------
802.11n Toshiba #1/ 256MB
802.11n DELL #2/ 512MB
802.11n DELL #3/ 512MB
802.11n HP/Compaq #4/ 2GB
802.11n ACER #5/ 4GB

RAM Total 7.2GB

Combine RAM Total 11.2GB

[Noob]

They should change teh options :P
Like 2GB - 4GB etc

I know it's low because this thread was made way back then xD

[Mr.PC]

4 GB of RAM