[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How much RAM does your PC have? (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 8/4/2012 8:36:44 AM EDT
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I just went to 8 gb in the new mac mini. I could have taken it up to 16 gb but doubt I would need all of that. Right now with Safari, mail and a DVD app running I have 5 gb free.
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You guys with 32 gb RAM, what are you using it all for? Or does Windoze 8 require that much just to boot these days?  I use mine for a "home lab" and run a bunch of virtual machines ontop of it for testing. With a SSD and 32 GB RAM, I can run 10-12 VM's without noticing a performance hit. |
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Quoted: Quoted: You guys with 32 gb RAM, what are you using it all for? Or does Windoze 8 require that much just to boot these days? I use mine for a "home lab" and run a bunch of virtual machines ontop of it for testing. With a SSD and 32 GB RAM, I can run 10-12 VM's without noticing a performance hit. I have been thinking about an SSD for the mac mini. I have seen demos on youtube on how fast they boot compared to a regular hard drive.
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I have lots of computers, only a few of which I would consider PC's. Most have 2-4 GB of RAM. Most memory in a single computer is 8GB in my main NAS. Windows Server 2008 R2 - 4GB (housing various small VMms and apps) Windows 7 Desktop - 4GB (my main PC) Windows 7 Desktop - 4GB (my kids PC) Windows 7 Desktop - 1GB (my media center PC) Windows 7 Laptop - 2 GB (wifes laptop) Crunchbang Linux Laptop - 2 GB (my laptop) Crunchbang Linux Desktop - 1 GB (garage music player) Crux Linux MineOS server - 4 GB (dedicated Minecraft server) FreeNAS - 8GB (main NAS) FreeNAS - 512MB (older NAS) Yeah, I use older hardware. Nothing state of the art hardware-wise. |
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I was limping along on 1 gb on the old mac mini since 2008. Just took it to 4 and it makes a big difference. I waited so long because the old mini's are a pain to get inside (got to use a putty knife to pry it apart). The new mini just has a plastic door on the bottom that screws off, piece of cake.
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I have 16gb in my Windows 7 Game box... it's pure overkill and I got it only because it was so cheap. The actual factual performance gain jumping from 8gb to 16gb is negligible unless you are doing a lot of heavy memory reliant stuff like image editing, CG design or video editing.
My 2011 Mac Mini went from 4gb to 8gb and I didn't notice the change, again it was a "because it was cheap" sort of thing. The big noticeable game changer in my Mac Mini was the SSD. |
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4GB in my work laptop (32 bit OS so it's maxed out) and 16GB in my primary work box.
A couple of days ago I replaced one of the database servers at the office. I built that rack with a dual Socket Xeon board, 128GB of ECC server RAM (DDR3), two separate SAS RAID5 arrays, two fiber NICs, redundant PSU etc. We spent a few bucks on that machine, but the dev team needed the horsepower, the storage, and the network throughput for an upcoming project  It replaced an older quad-socket Opteron rig running SCSI RAID.Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
