I have 16gig of RAM, with the pagefile turned off because I use an SSD and I don't want to wear it out.
I keep a VMWare image with Kubuntu on it running most of the time, and usually a silly amount of Tabs open in Chrome. I also hate waiting for games to load, so I alt-tab out of them frequently and let them just run in the background.
Basically I act as though my PC has an unlimited amount of RAM. I've actually managed to push it over 70% RAM in use, though, so I would have noticed if I only had 8 in the machine.
I had drop down to 12gig for two weeks because I had a to RMA a stick, and I got a low memory warning once. Pretty sure I had Mass Effect 3, (which takes FOREVER to start), Batman: Arkham City and my VMWare image going at the same time or something insane like that.
But I can alt-tab from anything to anything without ever waiting for any paging at all.
If you don't want to ever ever worry about RAM no matter what you do, then you should use 16gig. Otherwise 8 or 12 is fine.
I keep a VMWare image with Kubuntu on it running most of the time, and usually a silly amount of Tabs open in Chrome. I also hate waiting for games to load, so I alt-tab out of them frequently and let them just run in the background.
Basically I act as though my PC has an unlimited amount of RAM. I've actually managed to push it over 70% RAM in use, though, so I would have noticed if I only had 8 in the machine.
I had drop down to 12gig for two weeks because I had a to RMA a stick, and I got a low memory warning once. Pretty sure I had Mass Effect 3, (which takes FOREVER to start), Batman: Arkham City and my VMWare image going at the same time or something insane like that.
But I can alt-tab from anything to anything without ever waiting for any paging at all.
If you don't want to ever ever worry about RAM no matter what you do, then you should use 16gig. Otherwise 8 or 12 is fine.
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I am also researching the option of creating a 16GB ramdisk. There is software available that will save the contents of the ramdisk to the hard drive on shutdown and load it back into memory on boot, which would be extremely handy for anyone with this excess of RAM that I have.
