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    How much Ram do you have?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by 1201NFTW, Sep 16, 2010.

  1. 1201NFTW

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    in soviet russia james d gets joke
     
    1201NFTW, Sep 20, 2010
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    slickie88 Master of Puppets

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    I don't think that joke has made the rounds over there yet.
     
    slickie88, Sep 20, 2010
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  3. GNandGS

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    GNandGS, Sep 20, 2010
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    2GB for me. I am upgrading the RAM later, when I feel like I need it :)
     
    jeremyshaw, Sep 20, 2010
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    I've only got 4 gb ram. Not convinced the 8gb is worth the money, I'd like to see some hard numbers before taking the plunge.
     
    kich, Sep 20, 2010
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    4GB will more than serve for 90% of the things that people are buying this notebook for.
     
    slickie88, Sep 20, 2010
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    Those are numbers no one but you can provide for you. You can get these numbers yourself simply by watching Task Manager to determine the maximum amount of ram you ever use.
     
    corwinicre, Sep 20, 2010
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    haha, i have 8gb of ram and even with a cpu intensive game and other open internet windows (light-moderate browsing) i didn't even reach 50% of usage
     
    headphones989, Oct 18, 2010
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  9. James D

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    Usually graphic cards take RAM's memory when it needs. So if you have a notebook and you can't change graphic card - the best way is to increase RAM
     
    James D, Oct 18, 2010
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    4GB, now :D

    Since have two 4GB laptops, can I get a combined amount of 8GB!? :p
     
    jeremyshaw, Oct 18, 2010
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  11. Vidaluko

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    4GB with my i5 M11x, it should arrive here in a few days, I hope...
     
    Vidaluko, Oct 18, 2010
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    I have 8GB, paid with my university's scholarships. Finally it pays to be smart lol.
     
    Xsonic, Oct 18, 2010
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    four gigabytes
     
    HEUR, Oct 18, 2010
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    4 GB for me
     
    Tedster59, Oct 18, 2010
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    Just found another reason to have more RAM. After installing such software as DataRAM_ RamDisk you can force your system to see a part of your RAM (up to 4GB in freeware version) as a hard drive partition. So you can use it for Mozilla Firefox cash pagefile etc. Also in settings it can be chosen to write all info from this ramdisk on a hard drive before shutting down and write it back when it starts, or not if you don't want. Of course restart time will increase because of this but system will be much faster. Also it will increase SSD's life decreasing multiple rewrites of cash and so on

    In another threads you can find theese links but for making easy I also put them here:
    http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk?
    http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...ks-Utilities-*&p=442160&viewfull=1#post442160
     
    James D, Nov 21, 2010
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  16. LectricLarry

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    8 GB here.
     
    LectricLarry, Nov 28, 2010
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    for this lil machine , i think an ssd drive or a better cpu or gpu will make more difference than ram

    2 is too lil and 8 is redundant. I believe 4 is the sweet spot and 6 is a notch recommended above 4.
     
    Benchmade 42, Nov 28, 2010
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  18. blab8811

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    4 GB and dont need any more.
     
    blab8811, Nov 28, 2010
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