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Xiong Chiamiov:
--- Quote from: Malific on November 16, 2009, 01:16:52 PM ---The main issue I'm looking at is RAM. Home Premium limits to 16GB.
Between my SLIed Video cards, and 4x 2GB Ram chips (I got them VERY cheap) I'm already more than 2/3 of the way to that limit. Yes it's useless on my XP, I know, Like I said VERY cheap.
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I really don't understand having more than 1 gig on a workstation (although I suppose 2 is allowable if you run vms or do a lot of say, video editing). I wouldn't use more than 16 gigs even in a highish-end server.
I suppose the fact that I'm operating very comfortably on a 20-gig hdd says something about my views on 16 gigs of ram, though.
vuzedome:
Its probably 16gigs on your RAM sounds sexy.
kureshii:
14gigs of idle RAM sure sounds sexy... might as well buy a supercomputing cluster, which would likely have as much RAM as you have storage space (if not more).
Natheria:
--- Quote from: Takeshi on November 16, 2009, 03:51:58 PM ---
--- Quote from: Natheria on November 16, 2009, 03:03:28 PM ---There is one concern for watching anime on Win7 with MPC, you may have an issue with subtitles not showing up at first. I believe you have to add a filter for DirectVobSub (under external filters in options). I can't remember the details and i can't seem to find the old thread that talked about this issue. It's not that big of a deal though, and i fixed it in 5 seconds.
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The new CCCP, 09-09-09, fixes that problem.
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I did a full clean install of CCCP (and i had already had 09-09-09 before on Vista) but it still woulden't show subs until i added the filter. /shrug
And as far as Vista was concerned i thought it was fine too but after the first few months i started getting chipset driver corruption errors and i couldn't run anything that was too graphic intensive. Consider that my laptop runs a GeForce 9600M GT with a C2D T9400 @2.53 GHz and i was having problems running 720p videos and games running at 5-15 frames; i was pretty annoyed.
After i upgraded to Vista SP2 It fixed my chipset driver issues but i was getting random spikes in my CPU at odd and completely random times, where it would stick at 50% or even 100% utilization and stay that way until i restarted a couple of times. Much of the "Vista is evil" i admit is negative hype centered around the huge missing driver fiasco at release along with the OS being a memory hog in general (RAM and HDD) but some of the criticism was well warranted with random shit like that that's happened to a few people.
Sorry. I don't want to make this thread about Vista, just had to put that out there.
Mag-X:
--- Quote from: Xiong Chiamiov on November 16, 2009, 11:40:47 PM ---
--- Quote from: Malific on November 16, 2009, 01:16:52 PM ---The main issue I'm looking at is RAM. Home Premium limits to 16GB.
Between my SLIed Video cards, and 4x 2GB Ram chips (I got them VERY cheap) I'm already more than 2/3 of the way to that limit. Yes it's useless on my XP, I know, Like I said VERY cheap.
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I really don't understand having more than 1 gig on a workstation (although I suppose 2 is allowable if you run vms or do a lot of say, video editing). I wouldn't use more than 16 gigs even in a highish-end server.
I suppose the fact that I'm operating very comfortably on a 20-gig hdd says something about my views on 16 gigs of ram, though.
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I used to think that too until the upgraded my work PC from 1GB to 2GB. Even with XP it made a very noticeable difference. For gaming, 4GB is definitely as low as I would go. Bumping up from two to four made a HUGE difference for me.
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