Quote:
Originally Posted by raymor
Since I'm not rendering video, I could probably go back to my old Athlon 750 with 256MB RAM and it would be fine.
What kind of bloatware do you guys run where it matters anymore? Hell my phone is more powerful than my first few servers.
8GB of RAM? For what, reading email and posting? I guess Windows now takes a couple GB just to boot, so I can see maybe having 4GB to get the same performance Linux provides on 2GB, but what's the point of 8GB or more on a desktop?
|
You can get 8GB of DDR31600 for less than $50 right now, so why not? I do a lot of things with my PC including gaming and using my extra ram for photoshop scratch disks. I also run a lot of virtual boxes which you do need more memory for. Now is one of the best times to buy memory with the prices so low. Why just get 4GB when I can spend an extra $10 or 15 bucks to get another 4GB?
My Windows 7 boot uses RAM just as my linux boot does.