8GB of RAM

[OVERKILL]

So, yesterday, by accident, I ended up with 4x2GB Kingston DDR2 667 DIMM's. I had ordered RAM for a new build and didn't realize that the board took DDR3. RAM is so cheap right now that there was no point in sending it back.......

So out came my 2x1GB Crucial DIMM's and in went the 4x2GB Kingston's. Adding a little voltage (2.0V, they are 1.8V stock) I have them running at 771Mhz, so they are 1:1 with my FSB. They would probably go higher (my 667 Crucial DIMM's were doing 1033 with some cooling, at another FSB speed I had them as high as 1154Mhz), but having all four banks populated creates some good northbridge heat when you are overclocking, and since I'm only using air and the system runs WCG and SETI 24x7, I have left it there.

I'm loving it. I have like 30 apps open and haven't even made a dent in it, including a VMware Windows XP install with 512MB allocated.

OS is 64-bit Gentoo Linux.

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

64-bit computing is wonderful, especially with gobs of RAM.

 

[OVERKILL]

Originally Posted By: ToyotaNSaturn
64-bit computing is wonderful, especially with gobs of RAM.


Indeed sir, INDEED.

 

[ZZman]

Do you really keep that many programs open or was it a test?

What are you using all the RAM for?

How much shows in Taskmanager as being used?

 

[OVERKILL]

Task Manager? It's LINUX

I have:

1. Firefox with 16 tabs open
2. Gkrellm
3. xterm
4. root xterm
5. Gedit
6. Audacious
7. Pidgin
8. Evolution
9. Nautilus
10. XChat
11. aMule
12. Azureus
13. Boinc Manager
14. boinc service
15. VMWare running Windows XP Pro
16. Another Nautilus window

That's my "normal" list of open apps. 30 was a test, yes.

I have 6,380MB free and it hasn't touched my swap partition.

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

2 or 3 VM's with Vista should suck up the rest of that RAM....

 

[ZZman]

Oh yeah....I forgot you were running Linux

So really you have about 5 gig of overkill....Overk1ll........

 

[simple_gifts]

Fire up Google earth....... Sure fire way of using about 2Gb with 15 minutes of browsing.

 

[OVERKILL]

Both good suggestions

 

[97tbird]

where can I alocate RAM for different tasks on XP pro? i knew it, and now I've forgotten it ...

 

[ZZman]

Task manager>Processes>right click on the process>Set Priority

 

[OVERKILL]

That doesn't allocate RAM per se..... That simply allocates more system resources; such as processor time, to that process. It will give that program "preference" when multiple requests are being asked of the kernel.