zmatt
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OK, say 15 years form now, we get to the level where MMOs have graphics the level of say, the Matrix. How many gigabytes of ram do you think you will need?
4gb is standard now for gamers, with nehalem 6gb will be standard for gamers and 9gb for enthusiasts...
10-15 years? Come on guys......
Right now 8GB is a stretch for people to have. 4GB is starting to become more common. But if any developer wants to actually make money from what they are developing they have to keep the requirements low for those who do not upgrade and build high end PC's.
Software doesn't use energy, hardware does. I think what you mean is DX10 games are more demanding than DX9 games, which is true. Although the biggest determinant to Grpahics performance is your graphics card, not memory. Although memory is important.
But with 8 gigsw you run into a problem.
#1 its expensive
#2 it hurts OC performance
#3 you wont realistically use 8 gigs on a pc today
#4 even if you had crysis, photoshop, cod4 and premeir all open at the same time to fill up that 8 gigs, you would choke on your cpu and video card first.
#5 memory does not directly impact system performance, so you wont see a boost. memory only helps when you go from an insufficient amount to enough.
I have 4 gigs of ram. it didn't make hardly any difference in gaming performance over 2 gigs. This is probably due to the fact that crysis doesn't even use a gig of ram itself. If I wanted to improve gaming I would get a better cpu or video card first.
If you have a skultrail based system then it would make more sense. But who actually has one?