How much is to much Ram???

[mocman]

I love my Powermac dual. It has 8 slots for ram and I was needing to know how much is suffice. I have 1.5 gig already and would like to know if it would just be overkill in adding more.
Thanks in advance........

 

[tech4all]

I love my Powermac dual. It has 8 slots for ram and I was needing to know how much is suffice. I have 1.5 gig already and would like to know if it would just be overkill in adding more.
Thanks in advance........

Depends what your main use is with your PowerMac....?

 

[mocman]

I do photoshop,graphic software and alot of other stuff. I am starting a digital memory service and will also do alot of video. This is my everyday machine and I do all that I can.
I know on windoz the cut off was a gig and the rest was just overkill. I want to know if this mac is the same.....

 

[mcadam]

To much ram - is that possible... sorry, if I hadn't said it somebody else would

I'm interested in the answer though

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[tech4all]

I do photoshop,graphic software and alot of other stuff. I am starting a digital memory service and will also do alot of video. This is my everyday machine and I do all that I can.

Running graphic apps like Photoshop, I would say you're fine where your at. Doing video however, may require more....about 2GB ram from what I've read.

I know on windoz the cut off was a gig and the rest was just overkill. I want to know if this mac is the same.....

I've heard this as well. Like Photoshop only saw/used 100MB ram (at least with OS X). I made a thread on it a while ago actually. I'm sure someone with more knowledge in that area can clear that up.

 

[revenuee]

when do you have to much ram?

when you run out of slots to fit it in or you buy more ram then the computer can handle

G5 can handle 8 gigs, you bought 12 --- thats to much ram ... LOL

 

[JzzTrump22]

Don't bother upgrading unless you get into serious movie/photo editing.

 

[revenuee]

Don't bother upgrading unless you get into serious movie/photo editing.

ya ... i could see myself having dual 30" screens, 8 Gigs of Ram, terabytes upon terabytes of hard drive space, and still run out of screen realesate and resources ... meh