6GB RAM or 8GM RAM?

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Antoz
16 years ago
2 weeks ago
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16 Jun 2014 00:19:50
Hello,

I have recently purchased a new laptop with the following basic specs:

Intel Core i7 processor 4700MQ (2.4GHz - 3.4GHz, (Quad Cores) 1600MHz FSB, 6MB L3 Cache)
nVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 2GB
6GB DDR3L (4GB + 2GB) (1600Mhz)

Now, being a greedy sort I want to play with just England playable and the ROW viewable only, with a huge database.

Can any techy types out there advise me if there would be any discernible difference in experience if I upgrade to 8GB RAM, or is 6 more than enough and I should save my pennies...

Thanks in advance.

Cheers
Ant
Franck
20 years ago
4 months ago
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16 Jun 2014 02:22:15
FM isn't 64-bit enabled, so it can't make use of more than 4 GB of RAM, so the difference for you is whether you'll be running any other programs in the background (like a web-browser, music player etc.) and how RAM-intensive those are. If you're someone who multitasks a lot while playing FM the extra memory is probably a sound investment, otherwise you'll be fine.
Antoz
16 years ago
2 weeks ago
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16 Jun 2014 04:26:46
By Franck | On 16 June 2014 - 03:22 AM
FM isn't 64-bit enabled, so it can't make use of more than 4 GB of RAM, so the difference for you is whether you'll be running any other programs in the background (like a web-browser, music player etc.) and how RAM-intensive those are. If you're someone who multitasks a lot while playing FM the extra memory is probably a sound investment, otherwise you'll be fine.


Excellent thanks for that! FM consumes ALL my time so no multi-tasking for me, apart from perhaps some music playing in the background to soothe my troubled heart on those long winless streaks... so 6 should be enough for all of that!

Cheers
Ant

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