4 GIGS Of RAM - Overkill or Realistic?

[Lior .B.]

this reminds me of a problem I have: I recently added 1GB RAM to my existing 1GB (I have 4 memory cards: 1GB, ,1 512Mb 2 2562Nb) . After that I can't put my computer into hibernation. It says I don't have enough system resources to complete the API. When I close some of the active applications it can do it but I never run into this problem when I only had 1 Gb of memory. How come now with 2 GB of memory I have this problem and how can I solve this?

 

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Meredith said:
Create a 2GB Ramdisk and put your SWAP file on it!!!!

They should make a SATA Disk that is nothing but RAM with a little bit of flash to Handle the FAT Table or just have it so that it makes a copy of the Dynamic RAM to FLASH when the machine powers off.

They already have.

 

[little_chris]

Acquire a copy of Vista 64 Ultimate. Your license for 32bit is valid for the 64bit as well.

 

[ialfan]

Vista Ultimate comes with both 32 and 64bit discs in the packaging.

Go with 64-bit. Running 32-bit is just pointless imo. Plus it can't use all 4 gigs of ram and all 32bit apps run fine in 64bit windows.

 

[Captain Intrepid]

rType said:

saturn0660 said:
You can NEVER have to much ram... Hell, the new Mac Pro can be had with 32Gigs of ram..

USB supports 127 devices per host controller, so what? I've never seen HL2 memory consumption reach even 1GB.

USB has nothing to do with this whatsoever. And Half life is not exactly the most intensive programme out there in the real world.

 

[rType]

TheMacMan said:
USB has nothing to do with this whatsoever.

That was the idea...

And Half life is not exactly the most intensive programme out there in the real world.

Context:

I play games often, say like Sims 2 or HL2 and it's consequential episodes. Will I see a difference in that area if any?

 

[Rico]

It will definitely help your Vista experience.

 

[Arrqh]

4GB of RAM is way over what is necessary to make Vista run smoothly.

 

[Captain Intrepid]

rType said:

And Half life is not exactly the most intensive programme out there in the real world.

Context:

I play games often, say like Sims 2 or HL2 and it's consequential episodes. Will I see a difference in that area if any?

Sorry, didn't see that. I focused more on the photoshop and video editing sections, that'll benefit from as much ram as you can throw at them and your system can handle.

 

[Arrqh]

TheMacMan said:

rType said:

And Half life is not exactly the most intensive programme out there in the real world.

Context:

I play games often, say like Sims 2 or HL2 and it's consequential episodes. Will I see a difference in that area if any?

Sorry, didn't see that. I focused more on the photoshop and video editing sections, that'll benefit from as much ram as you can throw at them and your system can handle.

Only to a point. If you're not working on really large images in Photoshop, for example, you simply don't need to throw RAM at it.... it would just be a waste. Which falls nicely into what rType is saying. Of course, there certainly are uses of Photoshop that require as much RAM as you can get, of which I am intimately aware... but not everyone will hit that point.