Do You Really Need More Than 6 GB Of RAM?

Table of contents

• 1 –Is “Too Much” Really Just Enough?
• 2 –Test Settings
• 3 –Benchmark Results: 3D Games
• 4 –Benchmark Results: Encoding And Productivity
• 5 –Benchmark Results: Synthetics

• 6 –Performance Summary
• 7 –Launch Times, Memory Use, Multitasking, And Energy Use
• 8 –Conclusion

The notion that bigger is better has taken a beating lately in all aspects of society.

Once the pride of the so-called upper middle class in the United States, McMansions and SUVs have now become symbols of excess and waste--at least the reminders of an era past. Green movement proponents should certainly be happy that so many “earth abusers” are beginning to see the light, but what about performance-computing fanatics? With memory prices near record lows, is there any good reason not to fill every slot with low-cost 2 GB DIMMs?

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