Yea I tend to do that too unless it's a friend, or a friends family member then I try to steer them in the right direction. Usually I'm pretty quiet and let people load up on RAM if they want, but since the topic was brought up figured I'd give a little input with some examples to back up my claims.nice...well most of the computers I build, I try to highlight that it comes with a ton of Ram...I guess I am thinking most people will see that and think its blazingly fast...thanks all for the answers and input
If you need more than 4GB for games then you need to cut down on the background crap. Not even Skyrim uses more than 3GB of RAM even fully modded, I would know. The only reason I have 8GB of RAM is because it came with this machine and if it wasn't for that I would be rockin 4GB just fine. We wont see games require an upward of 4GB of system RAM until after the new consoles come out and DX11 starts really being utilized. These console ports don't really do anything.
Well as the OP implied, we are talking gaming here. I just proved you don't need more than 8GB to game even with the pagefile off. Also why I said, the people who need more have too much crap running in the background which is why RAM requirements are going up in games. Not because they need more RAM themselves (the games).Just depends what kind of user you are. Me personally I am always in the 3GB reason on desktop, 4 to 6gb when playing games. I need my 8GB ram.
That isn't always true, even to this day, if the processor can't even utilize all the RAM and you actually manage to use a large amount of it, you can get worse slow downs. This was particularly true back in the old days when the memory controller was present in the chipset instead of in the CPU.