4Gb of ram

do we need 4000 megs of ram for games or is it over rated?
im asking because im building a pc from scratch and have bought 2000megs already so..

im hoping to run windows vista, with firewall etc..

I know the 2 gigs will run vista just fine, but if you're going to be playing games with vista you might need moar. 2 gigs would be good if you were gaming with any other OS.

Remember that you need 64 bit os if you are going to use 4 GB ram. 32 bit os does not support more than 3 GB

anything more than 2 gigs dosn't give much more to the pc currently

>>1
Windows Vista? You are a stupid idiot and a faggot. And yes, get at least 4 GB to run that piece of shit, who knows or cares what you really need.

Stick to XP and run 2gbs.

Works fine for me.

Bad idea, Vista doesn't support 4GB of RAM, atleast not properly.
I suggest just making sure its fast, and/or going for something with low latencies.

2GB of reasonably fast RAM is enough.

Anyone remember when 512MB was epic?

And having a 128MB video card was good enough?

Yeah.

Yea just stick with 2gbs of RAM but run XP pro over vista. It's more stable.

i vista 2g of ram runs fine.

If you're not using a 64-bit OS and compatible CPU with mainboard, more than 2 GB of RAM won't do very much.
Peripheral component's RAM is mapped to addresses just below 4GB. Basically, this means your graphics card's RAM can be accessed by writing or reading to or from this "virtual" address.
When increasing physical RAM so it reaches into this address space, care has to be taken to remap existing devices into higher regions, or else physical RAM may not be addressed. As 32-bit computers only feature about 4 GB of address space, this can't be done--64-bit systems have a LOT more, so remapping can be enabled in the BIOS, paving the way for ludicrous amounts of RAM.
2GB RAM is sensible for a current 32-bit computer.

>>11
Why do you even bother?