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I looked through here for a bit, but didn't see this question. I am questioning whether it is worth putting more than 4GB of RAM into my current desktop, and whether there are applications that will benefit tangibly from the increased RAM.
For a little more information about my situation, I am a computer science student and am working on increasingly large projects, using IDEs like Eclipse and Visual Studio as well as smaller ones like FreeRIDE. I'm starting to explore virtualization, Linux administration, etc., but only on my own network (one desktop and another laptop).
2Here's +1 so you can vote everyone up ;) – hyperslug – 2009-08-07T02:00:53.633
Thanks for all the great answers, everyone - 8GB of RAM is on its way as we speak. :) – Feanor – 2009-08-10T19:47:25.537
Just keep in mind that if you are using 32bit applications then they are still going to be limited to a 4GB address space (per process). – Sam – 2009-08-23T10:28:29.453
Sam, it's actually 2GB per process in x86 applications. – MDMarra – 2009-08-23T13:38:28.627
@MarkM: For Windows, it depends on the program EXE: if the LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE bit is set, then it gets 4 GB of virtual address space (on 64-bit Windows), otherwise it gets 2 GB. – bk1e – 2009-08-23T16:31:02.510
(+: In light of the fact that it was closed, 27 up-votes is a fan-tas-tic bounty – Everyone – 2011-10-08T09:14:16.747