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How to: How much RAM do you really need?
PC Authority ^ | Friday 21 March 2014 | Darien Graham-Smith

Posted on 04/11/2015 11:25:09 AM PDT by Utilizer

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To: AppyPappy

2GB. it was a typo. several already pointed that out.


121 posted on 04/12/2015 2:33:48 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
What I’m pissed about is Yosemite killing trim on SSD’s. I’m still on Mavericks because of that.

The Samsung people say their products don't need Trim, OWC says their's don't either, who to believe....

My Mac Pro won't even recognize a Mavericks startup disk as bootable after installing Yosemite.

I guess the guys who write the Trim app don't want to get it signed off for the SandBox, seems like a simple thing to do but so far they haven't.. You can still install it if you want to but then who knows when the next update occurs.

I am running my SSD from a PCI card so getting the full 6G still went wonkers after Yosemite, have one installed in a Mac Mini it has the same slowdowns especially when accessing external HD's. I may attempt to downgrade the Mini and see if it will let me.

I am a real old Okie now living in a Marxist state, long story why but I joined the Army in 1957.

122 posted on 04/12/2015 2:41:17 PM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: AppyPappy
I’m using a cheap A10 AMD APU 8G RAM desktop and my bottleneck in gaming is my 6770 video.

The Video Card will almost always be the bottleneck now since that's where most of the processing power has moved to.

Both my son's have AMD FX-8320's that I picked up for $99 each, 8GB of 1866 memory, 250Gb SSD's and GEForce GTX 660 SuperClocked video cards and they get easily 100+ FPS on Max/Ultra settings on damn' near every one of their war games. (Don't ask me which, I have no idea what games they're into. I just look at the FPS.)

123 posted on 04/12/2015 4:15:28 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Ditto on the Firefox comment. Definite memory leaks, but still worth putting up with vs. the alternatives. Just shut down and re-open every couple-few days.


124 posted on 04/12/2015 4:20:25 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

From my reads in Windows task manager Firefox hogs less memory than Chrome and Internet Explorer. So I mostly use Firefox and “refresh” it once per day via cold shutdown of the process in Windows task manager....

Then accurate restart of my tabs and windows via session manager extension
Use of flash block extenstion is a must to tamp down Firefox memory hogging a bit


125 posted on 04/12/2015 4:31:40 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Not just firefox, all browsers continually slow down until they’re restarted.
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126 posted on 04/12/2015 7:21:18 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

I dunno. I use Opera and have never had a problem.

Then again, I shut down all programs and turn off the computer at the end of the day so I don’t know if that makes a difference or not.


127 posted on 04/12/2015 7:30:30 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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