How much Ram

How much RAM is too much, I have heard people with 4gb or more.

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This is really overkill unless you are using your computer for graphics intense applications.

Too much?
Well, I never thought that.
But hey willyable, what does overkill mean? I'm really curious, what would happen if one put a lot of RAM.

Ah, never really too much RAM, only ram could be goin to waste, The most you can have on a 32-bit board is 4gigs anyway so anymore than that would be too much, but not in a bad way, just pointless!

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Originally Posted by Mark

Ah, never really too much RAM, only ram could be goin to waste, The most you can have on a 32-bit board is 4gigs anyway so anymore than that would be too much, but not in a bad way, just pointless!

listen to this man

4gb won't even register on a 32-bit. if you're goin big, get a 64-bit os

then again, what would you need 4gb for? if you have that luxury, more power to ya.

4GB is not too much in this day and age. Since Vista came out I have quickly realised that what I once considered enough is in truth woefully inadequate.

If you're adding RAM, be sure to increase your virtual memory.
nilpo.com/2007/07/windows-xp/the-truth-about-virtual-memory/

4gb won't even register on a 32-bit. if you're goin big, get a 64-bit os

Im on WinXP 32-bit and have 4 RAM slots each, capabale of holding 1GB. Im not sure what the max is for a 32-bit OS, but it surely will register 4GB of total RAM. I dont know if you were referring to a single 4GB RAM module.

Another thing I read was that if you add RAM prior to isntalling Windows, Windows would register it better ???

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Never heard that, do you remember where you heard that?

Not sure where, will bump if I can get the location. But the idea was that during installation, Windows determinies how much RAM it'll use for the OS or something like that.

That was probably in reference to the amount of virtual memory that Windows allocates, this is hard drive space that windows uses for memory paging. You can go back and increase this at anytime, but most people don't.

It depends on your Processor and MotherBoard too. I have 2gb of Ram on my laptop, and it works just fine, btw I have AMD 1.8ghz processor (so you can get the idea)

8GB propably is the maxium rite?

Anything 3GB is overkill in my opinion. I've personally used 4GB in HD Video Editing and hardcore gaming and it's never come close to using more than 2.5 gb of ram. So thus, anything over 3gb is a waste.

4 GB is the max. i have heard and that to heard from you