Originally posted by: Zenobia
With prices for RAM so good, is here any reason not to fill up a motherboard with at least 8 mb ram. Most motherboards can hold 16! Thanks!
If I was building a computer, I'd want at least... 10 MB of ram. I Think you meant GB
Just because memory prices are low, doesn't mean you need all that ram. Applications free memory when closed and many times when idle. Unless you're running a database from your system, or maybe some photo/video editing software ... and you're using your computer all day, or at least, not shutting down; then you will not need that much ram.
Have your computer perform background diagnostics when doing intensive gaming, or whatever else you're currently doing. My guess is on a 32b system you never breach 1.5-2GB and on a Vista system you probably wouldn't break 3GB. -- I'm less accurate on Vista, since I don't use it anymore.
If you're running a server, then by all means, be greedy
vol7ron