"You only need 8GB of ram!"

[SkilledRebuilds]

you need more than 16 Ghorses..

Giggahorses.... HOLYSNAPPINGBATMANS!!!

[Horrorfull]

8gb of ram? Peasant Specs.

[Hidden Orange]

8gb of ram? Peasant Specs.

I'm running 2GB of RAM...

[Cwazywazy]

I'm perfectly fine with my twin 4GB sticks.. I often leave Chrome (Gotta click dem cookies) and some other programs open while I'm playing games too.. I rarely ever max out my 8GB. (Although, I was thinking of buying another set of 4GB sticks just cuz. But the cheapest ones of the same model that I have were like $60-70.)

[Leonard]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mk_6_helmet

 

 

pfffftttt....right so no mango leaves just weeds on mud gotcha.........the helmet though, that looks like the hitler helmets or pudding basin.

[ViruZ_HUN]

Please all.

 

Stop this 8 GB ram Fanboying.

 

This is 2014 not 2013. Grow up to 14!.

 

:U

[ViruZ_HUN]

You're the only one whose picture is not showing to me

I am doing it on purpose:D

[NinjaStyle013]

Waterloo University has a website layout that's so irritating to use that when I'm studying for exams, I literally just open up all the course notes in separate tabs and leave them open. 35 tabs open with pdfs eats up memory pretty well, when you also have another 20 with past exams and study references on them.

 

I have 3 monitors so it's easy to manage, though.

 

If you disable the page file, it's really hard to use that much RAM though. You'll get up to like 6 GB and your system will slow the hell down.

At my last job, the computer only had 4GB, and I had to run multiple copies of Visual studio at the same time. When I'd switch versions, the whole computer would just grind to a halt, pulling all the data from the hard drive. The worst part is that I figured out they could have upgraded the RAM if I had asked, the week before I was going to leave.

Visual Studio is slow enough on my unis pc I couldnt imagine having multiple copies.

 

I like that you reinforced the 3 monitors statement too lol

[Art Vandelay]

Visual Studio is slow enough on my unis pc I couldnt imagine having multiple copies.

 

I like that you reinforced the 3 monitors statement too lol

I'd like to point out that the 35 tabs full of notes were all on the same monitor. Only maybe 8-15 of the 20-40 other tabs were on the first monitor as well.

 

I'd probably do the exact same thing if I had one monitor... it'd just be a lot more difficult to manage. That was pretty much my experience working, and VS is not slow if you have enough ram and disable paging.

[Nuluvius]

"You only need 8GB of ram!"

 

[soup]

pfffftttt....right so no mango leaves just weeds on mud gotcha.........the helmet though, that looks like the hitler helmets or pudding basin.

 

 

If you say so.

 

At least the British one doesn't look like an updated stormtroopers.

 

Actually don't tell anyone but I actually think that is a better design.

[AlwaysFSX]

What the hell is the point of opening that many tabs???

[ttam]

Well no shit. If you are going to open everything you can, it will get there. Be smart and utilize system resources better.

[Leonard]

If you say so.

 

At least the British one doesn't look like an updated stormtroopers.

 

Actually don't tell anyone but I actually think that is a better design.

:lol:

[Yoinkerman]

Wait how does one chrome tab use more ram than playing a video game? A webpage is like 5mb

[Technous285]

Wait how does one chrome tab use more ram than playing a video game? A webpage is like 5mb

 

It's not just the data on the page, it's all the plugins like Java, Flash, Silverlight, (PDF) Reader, Shockwave, WMP (even if you nuke it from the system, Chrome and its clones have it as a plugin you can't nuke easily) and addons such as AdBlockPlus, NotScript, Ghostery, Quick & Dirty Proxy Flipper (really fugging useful since Chromium and browsers based on it don't have an Offline Mode other than "kill your network" without a plugin like this)...

 

Every tab in every window plus every addon and plugin gets its own "Chrome.exe" process, and Chrome doesn't flush its buffered data from the RAM until you've killed every last window and/or use a program like MemTurbo.

Yes, that means that tab you closed 4 hours ago is still resident somewhere in the memory Chrome's hogging until you flush it all out by closing all the windows.

 

Firefox and Presto-Opera (12.17 currently) on the other hand use one, maybe two, "<browser>.exe" processes for any and all windows with a "<broswer> Plugins.exe" process to run things like Flash & Java. I haven't used IE in such a donkey's age, so I can't tell how it handles processes relating to tabs/windows and plugins/addons.