12GB RAM Too Much?

[rimmerchant]

I use 32GB in my work system. It really helps out with having many VMs running.

Yupe same here.

you can also use the extra ram as a ramdisk.

I have 32gb ram on my laptop and partition that to a 16gb ramdisk. let me tell ya. running games off that and running VM off that is amazingly fast

[sulc84]

I also have 4GB and not need more,but if you use 3D animation software,RAM is always important.

[kujoe2002]

Yupe same here.

you can also use the extra ram as a ramdisk.

I have 32gb ram on my laptop and partition that to a 16gb ramdisk. let me tell ya. running games off that and running VM off that is amazingly fast

Rimm, you used part of your HDD for VM? If so, other than pagefile, is there a program you'd recommend I'd use to do it on my laptop? I'd like to create 8GB more VM from the HDD.

[LordVampyre]

Im running 12gigs on win7 ult. have never looked back at the 6gigs I was running. I for sure have to look into this ramdisk cause I usually only use around 3 to 4 gigs according to Clean Memory which might or might not be accurate.

Okay, a question.. how do you set up a ramdisk and get a game such as Skyrim to use it?

thanks for all info

[James]

You would need a program to create a ramdisk.

After that, you would simply install the game to the new drive letter created when you create the ramdisk. (Assuming that is what your plan is.)

Downside: You will reinstall the game every time you reboot your computer unless the program you use has the option to backup the ramdisk to disk and restore it on reboot.

[LordVampyre]

I see.. okay dont think this would work for me..

Thank you James

[Geforce255]

I'm building a new PC, and I plan to use 64-bit Windows 7, so I can utilize more than 3GB of RAM. Looking at people's recommendations, I can see the favored amount is 6GB of RAM. I wanted to future-proof my RAM needs however, so I was looking at getting 8GB of RAM. Then I found out that DDR3's performance advantage over DDR2, only happens when you have RAM installed, in multiples of 3. So to get more than 6, and get the benefits of DDR3, I would need 12GB of RAM. Is this too much? Is there any advantage to 12GB? Would this be a disadvantage, somehow? Thanks for any info

If you have triple channel, then 12 makes sense. If you are on one of the newer chipsets that supports dual channel, why not go with 16GB?

[Geforce255]

What do you do that uses that much memory? I only have 4 gigs and I never run out of room even playing the new games.

Both Shogun and Empire Total War will flat out crap out on 4gb RAM. I've seen Shogun consume 8 gigs with large armies in use. Since it is a PC exclusive, the developers wrote it to take advantage of large amounts of RAM and to use multithreading. Granted that most XBox ports will only use 2 gigs.

[PCVSNotebook]

There is no need for the RamDisk programs to have a backup function ...

He can just normal copy the entire drive to some directory , and copy them back after reboot .. installing takes longer time.

[PCVSNotebook]

I see.. okay dont think this would work for me..

Thank you James

well try it out , you wont loose anything the RAM wont runaway

never say it will not work untill you try it , and there are FREE RAM disks programs.

and you dont need to re-install , Just copy the game folder b4 shutting down the pc .. and when you want to play again , Enable the Ram Disk and copy it and enjoy.