Is there a point in having 4 GB of mem?

[Jeffito123]

So is there really a point in having 4 GB of mem? Is there any advantages/disadvantages?

I think in future applications...MAYBE...but for now?? that's just overkill

 

[TankGuys]

Right now, it's pretty useless. Most boards will only recognize ~3.2g anyway, so it's definitely overkill

 

[Bobthelost]

Not really.

Each application (in XP at least) is limmited to a max of 2GB. That means that unless you're using two really RAM intensive apps then just under half of it will be unused.

 

[pikachu656]

It's overkill for now

 

[HybridSquirrel]

eh not so over kill for movie directors, my cousin has 4 gigs on his pc dont know what board it is said its from out of the country but its 4gigs, recognized as 4 gigs. and he runs like adobe premier, 3dsmax, while rendering stuff and blah blah whatever and he takes it to about 3 gigs used ram

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Originally posted by: HybridSquirrel
eh not so over kill for movie directors, my cousin has 4 gigs on his pc dont know what board it is said its from out of the country but its 4gigs, recognized as 4 gigs. and he runs like adobe premier, 3dsmax, while rendering stuff and blah blah whatever and he takes it to about 3 gigs used ram

QFT. There is indeed a need in some places for 4GB of memory. i just dont see the need of 128GB of memory in some of those server boards. Now that seems like overkill. Why even bother with a harddrive

 

[HybridSquirrel]

lol true that