How to know if you need more RAM

So this is me right now:



What is the consensus? Do i need more? Do I have too much, just enough?

If that's your typical computing scenario, I'd say you would see no difference between having 4GB and 6GB in that machine. You're using 3GB & you have 3GB free - take it down to 4GB installed and you'd be using 3GB and you'd have 1GB free, and your computing experience would be exactly the same.

You certainly don't need more, but there's not really a concept of 'too much' except for the cost of the RAM. Having a lot of idle RAM in no way impacts your machine negatively - but buying too much RAM that you'll never use can impact your wallet negatively ;-)

When your monitor will become black and do 3 beeps.That symptom requires ram on the other hand if u play high definition game,you must have needed ram.However without ram a pc can not run.

Quote from Fayda : I am trying to use Adobe Premier Pro CS6 for video editing. The First thing they tell you is having at least 24 GB RAM. For this reason alone I am in the market for building a new PC. Looking for a notch bellow faster CPU. I will like to stick with AMD processor believe they give you more bang for your buck. Thinking of this one. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.p...re&id=1780 Any body have any other suggestion? I have a 10 Year Old DELL desktop that has reached it's upgrade limit. By the way I never played with Windows 7 yet. Just using XP even at work PC. Heard Windows 8 can support upto 32 GB RAM. Looking for any deals/suggestions on Video card, case, ram, HDD etc. Thanks,

24GB of RAM?

http://www.adobe.com/products/pre...specs.html

• 4GB of RAM (8GB recommended)

Great, a useful post for me. You know, I'm still kicking myself for buying a 8GB iPhone 4.

Quote from sd444 : 24GB of RAM? http://www.adobe.com/products/pre...specs.html 4GB of RAM (8GB recommended)

Search Adobe Premier Pro CS6 and see for yourself how much is recommended. I was also shocked to see that 24 GB RAM.

Quote from luiswhite : Great, a useful post for me. You know, I'm still kicking myself for buying a 8GB iPhone 4.

Your iPhone has 8 gigs of ram.

Quote from Fayda : Search Adobe Premier Pro CS6 and see for yourself how much is recommended. I was also shocked to see that 24 GB RAM.

That's the official page. Adobe putting "Recommended 24GB for memory leaks we don't know how to fix" doesn't help sell the software. Switch to a non-adobe NLE.

Quote from RockySosua : Your iPhone has 8 gigs of ram.

I mean 8GB rom...

Can you lower or disable swap file if you have more than enough ram? Sorry if it has been posted in the previous 7 pages.

Quote from redls1 : Can you lower or disable swap file if you have more than enough ram? Sorry if it has been posted in the previous 7 pages.

Follow the steps in the screenshots below.
In this case, custom sizes were chosen but you could choose "no pagefile" if you have sufficient physical ram to do so.
The minimum size for Vista and 7, is 16 megs, and the max should be close to matching the amount of ram in the machine.
In XP machines, the lowest setting can be as low as 2 megs.
If a program or group of programs need more ram that the allotted minimum, Windows will raise the minimum to the required amount.
If you come close to the maximum amount of physical and assigned ram, you will get warnings that tell you that you are low on memory, suggesting that you close some programs, before crashing the whole system.

I have 16gb of memory. Guess I will just leave it as it is as Im not low on disk space and maybe just keep min. and max. the same.

Quote from redls1 : I have 16gb of memory. Guess I will just leave it as it is as Im not low on disk space and maybe just keep min. and max. the same.

I doubt that you could ever consume all your physical ram, so it would be even better to just select "no paging file".

Thanks will give it a try. For what I do I read (kind late) I will never use that much but thought I got a good deal.