ORIGINAL: ptarp
ORIGINAL: el-John-o
Btw I often get commented that I ''don't have enough''. This is more than enough for any R/C Flight sim and it has never been not enough for anything I've ever done. The more RAM you have, the more the PC has to sift through and allocate.
Since you brought it up...this isn't true. A computer doesn't have to "sift through" memory to access a memory location. It uses the address and goes directly there. As an analogy: The fact that there are millions of websites doesn't slow you down in typing
www.google.com does it? No, b/c you know the address. Can you post a link to some of the "countless benchmarks" stating this? Here is one showing minimal (almost nonexistent) gains going from 3GB to 12GB, but certainly now slowdown:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...rade,2264.html
Thank you,
Actually, I belong to another forum (Overclock.net) in which this is a common belief and resonated over and over again in various topics, someone else challenged me on this too. I can link you lots of benchmarks, actually, but they are irrelevant. There are some OLD benchmarks showing that going from 32MB to 128MB has detrimental performance, for example, my guess is older CPU Memory controllers. However I stand corrected, but I still stick with my 4 gigs. I guess people see all of the other gear in my rig and think that I should have 8 gagillion gigs of ram, I rarely even need 2 gigs. It's simply not cost effective to add RAM that I don't need, when I can add it later if it became necessary.
However you are right, it isn't detrimental to performance as I have been led to believe. Over on OCN many have mentioned that "countless" benchmarks prove it, but I guess I never follows up, haha. Sometimes on the internet, information relayed as fact that is somewhat logical, gets relayed as fact over and over again it becomes a foundational or common knowledge (things like the 'inch per gallon' rule in aquariums, for example), even though they are completely ludacris!
-John
P.S., I pulled the trigger on Real-Flight. It's been decent so far, but I am disappointed in the model lineup. It's either trainers are giant gassers, nothing in the lines of what I'm looking for in my next model, low wing tricicyle gear, but I'm sure I'll find something on the swap page.