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hobbit709

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8. And just how many computer users need all that?

Reply to jrandom421 (Reply #6)

Thu Oct 17, 2013, 12:22 PM

Oct 2013

My main system has 8Gb RAM and my RAM usage hardly ever exceeds 1.25Gb. That's with 3 different folding@home clients running in the background, surfing the web, listening to music and processing a video file and playing with my LEAP Motion toy at the same time. Of course running an 8 core cpu at 5GHz, it may not need to hold more data than that in RAM at one time.

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