What to do with extra RAM

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ehcastro3

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I added 8gb more RAM last week. Before I added RAM I have 8gb and my daily RAM usage is about 6.5gb that's why I decided to add more.

Now I have 16gb and it seems I have more RAM that I should to. What should I do with the excess RAM I have? Someone said I could load a FULL program to my RAM so that it loads faster (or thats how I understand what he is saying_

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks OC

 

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Im curious as to what you do that you used 6.5gb...

There's nothing really you can do with it. Its ram. Itjust sits there and gets used or doesnt

 

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ehcastro3

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Work. I usually have 5 browsers on (IE, Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera) across 3 screens. Word/Excel. YM, MSN, hardware monitoring programs.

Main browser is Chrome which has at least 8 open tabs.

So what the guy said that I can load a full program using my free RAM is full of hot air right?

 

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No you can create a virtual ram drive and install stuff to it.

http://www.superspeed.com/desktop/ramdisk.php

 

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Could you post a screen shot of task manger with all your ram usage i would like to see that 6.5 GB usage.

 

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\dev\goat said:

No you can create a virtual ram drive and install stuff to it.

http://www.superspeed.com/desktop/ramdisk.php

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Thank you.

wingman99 said:

Could you post a screen shot of task manger with all your ram usage i would like to see that 6.5 GB usage.

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You mean this one?

 

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BOOSH

 

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wingman99

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ehcastro3 said:

You mean this one?

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Yes you have more ram than you need most of it is in a fast cached, if your doing the same things over and over it will help.

 

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\dev\goat said:

No you can create a virtual ram drive and install stuff to it.

http://www.superspeed.com/desktop/ramdisk.php

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That's pretty slick.

 

Archer0915

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Acrually the memory can be used as is. If you are running your rig 24/7 the cache will be most useful. I would just leave it alone.

 

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Yeah, I have 16GB RAM here on my work pc as well. I also plan on getting the same on my home machine. RAM is super cheap now and just.. why not? I've been up to 10-12GB in use at once before I believe. Normally it's not that high, but if I'm running something like:
3ds max, solidworks, inventor, keyshot, photoshop, browser, email, etc.. it gets there quickly

 

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Rendering an HD video can easily eat up all of the 8GB of RAM that i have, so i could see an upgrade to 16GB being worthwhile if i found good sticks for cheap.

 

Archer0915

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Oh yeah when I get the encode on it sucks up memory like a shop-vacs sucks water.

 

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When I first looked at this topic my first thought was "fridge magnets?"...

 

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Lol I was thinking necklace...Paint it gold...bam...