Have you ever been on a website and not felt like reading a long article? Well with the Safari browser you don’t have to do that anymore. All you have to do to get started is surf to an article of your choosing and highlight the text you would like to be spoken. Then all [...]
Unboxing and overview of the Asus P5N-D Motherboard. This is a great motherboard if you are just getting started with SLI. If you will be using a video card more powerful than the 9800GT I would recommend a motherboard with the 780i, 790i, or X58 chipset. Those chipsets are faster and the motherboards provide better [...]
I have been considering getting a Mac for sometime now. Since I got my iPod Touch I have been going to the Apple Store a lot, taking classes here and there to learn about my iPod and learning about the Mac in general. I got the Mac because I have been getting into multi-media content [...]
I run a custom PC builder site at www.mpcscomputers.com and the biggest question I always get is “Should I get a Dual Core or Quad Core Processor?” for my new computer. There is really no one real answer to that question. What I always ask my customers is what will you be using your computer [...]
Memory Guide (back to top)
Most computer system specifications tend to list the system memory or RAM immediately following the CPU. In this guide, we will take a look at the two primarily aspects of RAM to look at in computer specifications: amount and type.
How Much is Enough?
The rule of thumb that I use for all computer systems for determining if it has enough memory is to look at the requirements of the software you intend to run. Pick up the boxes for each of the applications and the OS that you intend to run and look at both the “minimum” and “recommended” requirements. Typically you want to have more RAM than the highest minimum and ideally at least as much as the highest listed recommended requirement. The following chart provides a general idea of how a system will run with various amounts of memory:
* Minimum Functionality: 1GB
* Optimal: 2GB
* Smooth Sailing: 4GB or more
Hello everyone and welcome to my Blog. My name is John and I would like to welcome you to the new The Tech Basement blog. I have been in the I.T. Business for the past 15 years. I am an I.T. Consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area and also a PC Systems builder. I [...]
