Posted: 7/21/2012 2:36:26 PM EDT
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Its funny I came here the other day to talk about programming and found a great thread already going here. Now I'm wondering about RAM. I saw the other guys thread here but its not really what I'm wanting to find out.
My go to computer is my HP dv6 laptop. It has an AMD quad core A8 I believe. It came with 6gb I upgraded to 8g b but now I'm thinking about doubling it to 16gb. I run Linux Mint 13 64bit and rarely do anything real crazy. I have started building/playing/experimenting with virtual machines. Its nice to test out how other systems work together. I can run a server with to client OS's pretty well but wouldn't complain about a little more speed. So would ram make a big difference in my situation? THANKS. |
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I'm pretty sure it will do 2x8. Where are you seeing it will only do 2x4?
ETA here is the link to hp's specs. It says 16gb link |
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I'm pretty sure it will do 2x8. Where are you seeing it will only do 2x4? ETA here is the link to hp's specs. It says 16gb link In that case go for it! I must have been seeing a different suffix on the model number |
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RAM sizing all depends on what your doing and how well the OS is handling paging in and out the data.
Some operating systems handle it better than others, and thereby allow your applications to scale a bit better. I believe the A6/A8 CPUs from AMD (as I type on my HP g7 with A6 inside) have the type of variable clock rate where it normally operates at around 1.6GHz but will jump to 2.5GHz when there is high system load. Windows 7, some of the newer Linux distros and OpenIndiana (?) support this feature within the AMD Llano chips. That said, it might be worth while to see how much memory your applications are using today before spending LOTS of $$$ for those new 8GB dimms. I thought I read where they were still over $100 each, but, prices change so quickly its tough to say for sure. But, it never "hurts" to have more memory. |
When I first bought it (December 2011) it was around $100 each now a buddy just put 2 8s in his for $100 total thats what got me to wanting to do it. I really enjoy this laptop besides for my wifi and graphics driver issues but they only made me grow as a linux user 
Im hooked on building little VM networks to learn on. I set up a web server on one, an email server on another and one is a free NAS. The software was all free (Virtual Box and Linux OS's) plus im using dynamic drives so if I want to add another drive to a NAS I just make a few clicks and there it is. Im wondering if I can set one up as a DHCP but thats new ground to me so im not sure what it would do in a virtual environment. 
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