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Originally Posted by Dewfire
At this date, any RAM over 8GB even with a Windows 7 x64 OS is wasted unless you have an application (not a game) that is specifically programmed to use that much RAM. Otherwise, most games, even the newest beasts such as Skyrim, will only use 4 GB and then switch over to the Page File.
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Yes but not quite, it's 2 GB usually and 4 GB if specifically programmed. But that's 32-bit applications, x64 applications get 8,192 GB:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx
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Are you running multiple VM's or something Japo!?  In a server instance running VM's is the only time I'd see the need for that much RAM.
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Of course that much memory is useful only to share among several applications. You can always set up a virtual disk though.
At any rate I don't have to worry about the performance bottleneck, no matter how many applications I'm running at the same time. And yes I can run VMs like there's no tomorrow. :P But really I'm just a nerd, and RAM is really cheap, I just wanted to max the computer out before the price of DDR3 started to go up with time after it's superseded and become rarer.
Well it's maxed out now. :P I realize I have 8 GB and just now retail "pro" computers are beginning to pack 6 GB.
The whole point about this computer, that's almost four years old, was that I wouldn't go bankrupt buying it, but also because I don't plan to replace it for a looong time yet.