Re: Ram question - CAS3vs.4; 2 gig sticks, ECCv. Non-ecc


only talking about ram getting over 2gig of ram is huge overkill
unless you are dooing a big big big visual program with thousands of
points that you need to look at, over 2gig is overkill

On occasion, I deal with data containing a few million cases with the potential to go to 300 million or possibly more. Some of programs load this into ram and it will run out at even 4 gigs requiring the use of a 64 bit system and around 8 gigs. I don't do this frequently enough to worry too much about it, but it would be nice to handle anything that comes along without moving to a different machine. So far, for home use, my 2 gigs seems to be more than enough even with multiple programs open including video editing software and virtual PC which is relatively ram intensive (so yes, you have a good point and I would generally agree).

Jeff


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