3GB ram why?

Why would anyone actually use 3gb of ram I have a 1gb of pc 3200 400mhz ram and it dosen't seem to help my pc in any way.

could someone tell me why you would need to have that much.

Mainly for rendering and photo editing.

Or to show off. Unless they do heavy editing they will never need it.

One of my best friends is an animator and he has 2 GB of ram and he is complaining that he wants more. Rendering is really the only thing that I could see you needing that much RAM for.

For graphics editing, it's faster to retrieve from ram than from the HD.

The Caretaker said:

Why would anyone actually use 3gb of ram I have a 1gb of pc 3200 400mhz ram and it dosen't seem to help my pc in any way.

could someone tell me why you would need to have that much.

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512mb Vs. 1Gb shows a lot difference...
a. when u extract large rar/tar files,
b. when u play games at the same time encode
c. rendering graphics..

The Caretaker said:

Why would anyone actually use 3gb of ram I have a 1gb of pc 3200 400mhz ram and it dosen't seem to help my pc in any way.

could someone tell me why you would need to have that much.

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I don't see how you can't notice any difference from 1024MB to whatever you had before. I suppose if you just browse around in Windows and you don't play any relatively new games, it could happen.

If you don't do that, you should see stuff load alot faster. As to answer your question, 3GB of RAM as of now is only really useful if you play a select few RAM hogging games such as BF1942, or you do anything in the terms of graphics, video, etc.

In the future though, 3GB will become more common place. Right now, actual gigabyte sticks are a bit harder to find then your standard 256/512MB sticks. I can still remember when my Dad's work payed millions for their first megabyte of RAM.

-S

Databases and querying them. That'll be one of the first areas where 64-bit CPUs will take hold as querying a 2TB DB on 4GB of RAM takes forever due to the fact that you hit virtual memory every friggin time.

~THT

some dutch supercomputer has 1024 proc.s 1 tbyte ram, and 10 tbyte storage, able to reach 10 tflops\sec

Looks like my Ram will do me for a while then.

Thanks people

PS I have heard that the newer mobo's will be 5gb and upwards!