How much Memory you NEED by Crucial

[Richard_Cranium72]

A question asked all the time and definitive answers are elusive,

Crucial Memory has a view->>


Minor Administrative
Slight word processing, occasional e-mail 64MB

Fair Administrative
Word processing and e-mail, spreadsheets, fax & comm. software, small graphics programs, 2 applications open at once 64MB-96MB

Intense Administrative/Student
Word processing and e-mail, spreadsheets, fax & comm. software, business graphics, general gaming software, 3 or more applications open at once. 64MB-128MB

Executive/Management
Word processing and e-mail, spreadsheets, fax & comm. software, presentation software, illustration software, photo editing, web browser 96MB-128MB

Professional
Word processing and e-mail, photo editing, font packages and multimedia software, CAD software, CAM software 128MB-512MB

Heavy Graphics Design
3D CAD software, modeling software 2GB and up
http://www.crucial.com/library/howmuch.asp

Also,, " How Much Memory Does My Software Need? "
http://www.crucial.com/library/softwareguide.asp

That one is tooo large to paste

DrVette

[Richard_Cranium72]

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[Ed_S]

Nice reference, thanks Doc for bumping it up since somehow I must have missed it before!

They did miss one important category, though. But it's one that never gets enough, changes constantly, and has no definitive answer.

"Braggin' Rights" http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[This message has been edited by Ed_S (edited 09-02-2001).]

[Psycho Logical]

Some things to take into consideration.

Computer May Reboot Continuously with More Than 1.5 GB of RAM (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q304/9/43.ASP)

"Out of Memory" Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM Installed (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q253/9/12.ASP)

Error Message: Insufficient Memory to Initialize Windows (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q184/4/47.ASP)

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gaming...??