Is 4GB of RAM overkill?

[butch81385]

is 4 gigs overkill? not at all

would fit perfectly into 8 computers....

[Hiphoplistner]

what are you going do 4 gig of ram?
Using 4 gig for your brain will NOT hurt you .
LOL

I"m only using 128mb for my computer.

[FalcomPSX]

if you're running windows xp pro(I think 2k pro is the same...), you'll have to enable physical address extensions or else you'll only see between 3 and 3.5gb ram. Plus Applications can only use the first 2GB of ram, the last 2GB will be reserved for the OS kernel. So basically, it's a waste. 3GB would be a better idea, 1 gig for the OS, and 2 GB for apps. This applies to all single processor systems currently available except for the athlon 64, and then only when your OS and programs are recompiled to 64-bits(which isn't available yet). If you run dual processors, I believe that raises the limit to 8GB... I just know i've set up a couple systems on 4GB ram using 875 chipsets and it does work, though it's not very necessary.

[SoSl0w]

The only experience I have had with the real "neading" of memory has been 1gig vs. 512meg. 2 guys at a recent LAN party had 1gig vs everyone else with 512. They both loaded the game faster than everyone else by a long shot. So from what I have seen more is better but like everyone says, too much is just plain too much.