[QUOTE="couly"]I wouldn't bother going 64 bit. You won't notice any difference with your games.C_Rule
That's not true at all, I don't have to do much to get memory usage over 4GB. GW2 + Opera and not much else uses over 5GB. There are other games like BF3, which use a lot of memory.he could get by with 3.5gb of RAM windows allocates memory to the programs that need it the most.(but it seems pretty stupid to waste around 60% of your RAM)
The only problem is that once you are done with a game that may have utlized the majority of your RAM then the OS will have to reallocate that memory back to other programs causing them to start up slower.
I have a 7 year old laptop with 1gb of RAM + Windows 7 ultimate installed and if I am not doing anything on it then it uses around 280-300mbs of RAM.
When using Chrome with around 8 tabs open it still only uses around 650mbs of RAM.
Basically it all comes down to him wanting faster loading on some programs and the ability to have more programs running....although only games and a few other programs will be RAM hungry.
Sometimes I noticed Chrome having a memory leak but closing and reopening it will fix the issue.
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