Is 4gb Ram enough for heavy gaming on M11x R2?

Hey all,

I'm pulling the trigger today on a M11x-R2.

Is 4gb ram enough for heavy gaming on this thing?

Will it run most current games on high settings? Or do I need to go to 8gb?

I was thinking of either going 8gb with the 160gb 5400rpm HD with the intent of upgrading the HD later to either a SSD or 7200rpm 500gb, etc.

OR

I was leaning on 4gb ram and the 500gb 7200rpm config.

Any input is appreciated.

Again, this will be used for 90% "heavy" gaming while on the road. Along with general writing and websurfing and media playback. I don't plan on doing any video editing on it or graphic design/photoshop etc.

Thanks, and Cheers!

 

to me it looks like 4 gb of ram is considered the norm on this forum with 8 gb considered too much.

i say go for the 4 gb and high capacity hdd

 

Yes, it is. I'd get 4GB/250GB option or if you really need more space buy a 500GB HD separately for $100.

 

According to many forummers here, no games can use more than 4 GB of Ram, so you are home free. Stick with 4. It won't make a difference to have more. You can always upgrade later if in 3 years that it should have become more of a standard.

Ram is important, but GPU and CPU also decides if you can play what games on high settings.

 

If you ask me.. go 8gb.. you can never have too much memory. sure games might not use more than 4gb in total, but in those 4 you have windows too.. with 8 you are sure that everything windows, games what ever will have enough for what ever it wants to do.

I have ordered my m11x R2 with 8gb and can't wait

 

When you get it in, start a game, play it for awhile, then open task manager. You won't see your whole system using more than a few gb

 

4 is more than enough, if you want to spend the extra dough get a SSD, now that's a upgrade worth getting.

 

For me it's more than just gaming, there is a difference in windows itself between 4 and 8, and since I work with video editing, 3d graphics and large size pictures professionally, RAM is just a craving haha

 

Yeah, but I don't do any of that. This is just for gaming. If I took your advice and spent an extra $300 to not see any gaming performance improvement, I'd be mighty bummed out. Though your logic for what you need the extra ram for is sound. But this isn't that, and just for gaming. Hence, my stressing that, because I didn't want to take a forrumers advice, get the ram, only to realize that I spent an extra $300 unneccessarily. I don't do any windowed gaming either. Full screen all the way, baby.

Thanks for everyone's input. I think I'm going to go with the 4gb/500gb 7200rpm HD option. The idea of spending the extra dough on an SSD is a good one too.

Cheers to everyone for taking the time to answer.

 

Waste of money putting that amount of RAM into a mid-spec laptop. Go for 4GB, your M11x will be an old artifact by the time games utilize 8GB ram that you'll never have the chance to make good on your investment!

 

Spend the money on SSD.