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?
Re: How mauch RAM do you have? (MS Windows) I have 1024 MB and hardly use more than 300 MB, when "fully loaded" (22 processes): Like running apps: Azureus, Email Notication, IE, IM, OpenOffice, Windows Media Player. After startup I have 12 apps running and 835 MB Free RAM 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.
Re: How mauch RAM do you have? (MS Windows) 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.
Re: How mauch RAM do you have? (MS Windows) 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.
256 here on my old Dell. Lots of free space though so speed is exceptional for that little ram. snowbound
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ). Cheers, Alphalutra1
