Kes Wrote:Sparks Wrote:Just wondering what you guys are using all that RAM for?The game will take up part of that. I also do a good deal of work with Photoshop and various other graphics, audio, and video editing software (Adobe Premiere and SoundForge primarily), and sometimes I have the IDE for PHP up as well. And I have a hard time closing Firefox tabs/windows. It's a problem. I think Firefox alone with all of the tabs/windows I keep open gobbles up about 3gb. A lot of this stuff I do simultaneously.
If its just for the game, then RAM really shouldn't have much to do with it. Unless you have lots of background programs running at the same time. I know a test using Crisis to show what RAM does with 3GB/6GB/12GB and it was like 1fps difference between the 3 and 12. Should be able to have ~100tabs open in each for firefox w/o much problem at 3.
You using xp, vista, or 7? If vista or 7 then turning off your HDD indexing should give you somewhere between 40-50% of your RAM performance back. Also can turn off start-up applications if you don't use them all for some decrease in usage.