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Home News Is 16 GB of Memory Enough? NO. 32 GB Is.

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Is 16 GB of Memory Enough? NO. 32 GB Is.

Posted on Tuesday, October 25 @ 05:00:00 Eastern by

More and more developers are calling on console manufacturers to include more random access memory in their hardware. id Software and more are pointing to memory as one factor putting PCs far ahead of current-generation hardware.

iBUYPOWER announced today that they're exemplifying that factor by being the first PC builder to offer 32 GB of Memory on their Intel Sandy Bridge systems. Multitasking, gaming, and Windows 7 SuperFetch tech will all receive major boosts in boot times and loading:

The amount of memory in a system significantly impacts the user's experience, this is especially true with gaming systems. The option to build a system with 32GB of memory ensures iBUYPOWER customers will have a positive experience with our PCs and the reason we wanted to be the first system builder to offer it.

I can't say you'll need an SSD with that kind of memory in your system. Console makers will really need to step up their upcoming hardware if they're going to match the kind of machines you can get from the likes of iBUYPOWER.

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  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Oct 25th, 2011 at 2:20 pm
    Yay my computer site gets a tag sweet.
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  • sandineyes
    sandineyes
    Joined: May 2008
    Posted: Oct 25th, 2011 at 2:30 pm
    32GB is an absolute waste for a machine meant for gaming, or pretty much any other activity a regular person may do on their computer. It is not a matter of more is better; it is a matter of having enough, or not having enough. For games, even now having beyond 4GB (along with a video card of 1GB or so memory on it) will give no increase in performance for any game except maybe one with terrible memory management. Also I hope you were joking about that SSD comment, this is volatile memory you are talking about.
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  • drathbone
    drathbone
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Oct 26th, 2011 at 4:15 am
    Dude you're joking right? Clearly this is meant for people who want to play ALL of there characters simultaneously in Skyrim.
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  • blackdeath
    blackdeath
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Oct 25th, 2011 at 3:00 pm
    ...is that much RAM needed for anything at all? This machine is doing fine on 2 for crap's sake.
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  • TurinAlexander
    TurinAlexander
    Joined: Sep 2006
    Posted: Oct 25th, 2011 at 4:22 pm
    I have 16GB, and honestly it's mostly for e-peen value. Nothing I use this machine for comes close to needing that much memory. I can be running a game on one screen, have the internet open on another and be playing a movie and streaming it to my PS3 and it still doesn't come close.
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  • Sammo
    Sammo
    Joined: Oct 2005
    Posted: Oct 25th, 2011 at 6:50 pm
    Because writing stuff to disk is FOR PUSSIES. RRAAAHHHHH FOOTBALLLLLL
    0 1
  • snwbrder3384
    snwbrder3384
    Joined: Sep 2011
    Posted: Oct 25th, 2011 at 7:45 pm
    pretty sure the only thing that could come close to chewing up that much memory is non-linear video editing......
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