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Worth upgrading 8GB RAM -> 16GB RAM

 
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TrueSoulja
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 2:28 am    Post subject: Worth upgrading 8GB RAM -> 16GB RAM Reply with quote

Is it worth it? Will I see a faster speed increase. I don't really do any graphical work, mostly youtube and notes, I just like having a fast PC. I have a MacBook Pro 15" i7 2.0GhZ
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 2:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you don't do any graphical work, or use programs like Photoshop, I would say that you don't need to upgrade. I don't know how well OSX optimizes RAM, but id assume it doesn't need 16GB for watching youtube. If you like to have more than 30 tabs open at a time, then you could maybe benefit.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 8:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A colleague at work uses OS X with 8GB of RAM, and runs multiple VMs, lots of tabs in browsers, email / IRC client, various tools, and RDP / ICA clients at the same time. Works fine for him.

That being said, I find 8GB to be a little bit short on Windows, but only because I tend to run Visual Studio, Firefox, Notepad++, mIRC, Spotify, MySQL / Apache, and various other stuff at the same time as VMs. I could do with an upgrade to 16GB really.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 9:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

having firefox open also eats up 1GB ram after a while
(I have 12 GB ram and always have a vmware session open with linux 2GB and XP 1 GB)

anyhow, i'd go for 32GB or more so you can have a ramdisk that you sync with a real disk folder (so on reboot the contents get copied to the ramdisk from the folder and changes get written back eventually to disk)

then place stuff like games or other disk heavy things on there

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 12:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You should run top or the equivalent to determine how many hard paging faults you're getting to determine how much benefit more RAM will have.

DB's RAMdisk suggestion is pretty good, too. I have had good results with Primocache (really a two-tier cache, rather than a RAMdisk) - a 6GB cache can have a hit rate upwards of 70% while browsing the web and playing games, which means that everything loads pretty much instantly.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 12:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes 16GB RAM will help, more is almost always better.
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