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<blockquote data-quote="robduckyworth" data-source="post: 1201229" data-attributes="member: 184879"><p>okay it seems to me you are a little confused as to what RAM does in comparison to the hard disk <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>8GB or 16GB? this is RAM. this is what your system uses while its running. it is storing data you need access to immediately. every program you open, TV show you watch, music you are listening to at that specific time, are loaded onto the RAM. everything you are not using is stored on the hard drive.</p><p></p><p>the more RAM you have, the more programs or data you can have running at the same time, theoretically. it does not constitute to your storage space. different programs take up different amounts of memory.</p><p></p><p>most people dont need more than about 4GB, let alone 8. its usually alot more benificial for people doing alot of audio, video or photo editing, or gaming.</p><p></p><p>word processing is a fairly "light" task, in that it doesn't take alot of system resources.</p><p></p><p>the games you are currently playing are not the most resource demanding, but as time moves on games will become more demanding, so making sure you have a good processor and graphics card now would be beneficial if some time in the future you decided to play any of the newer releases.</p><p></p><p>that being said, most of the current games out can run on the relatively underpowered graphics processor i have, albeit at a lower resolution. the range of iMacs you are looking at, have relatively powerful ATI graphics cards in them, which would be more than enough to run Left4Dead comfortably. of course, having an good processor is also important for these kinds of games, and an i5 or i7 are well up to the task.</p><p></p><p>as for the hard drive space, the items that would seem to take up the most space would be your games, but having a terabyte of memory would be more than enough to hold everything you have said here. depending on how many movies you have, i reckon you would have around 500GB to spare on a 1TB drive. and if you run out of space, you could always get a cheap external drive and put your music/videos on there.</p><p></p><p>hope this clears things up somewhat. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="robduckyworth, post: 1201229, member: 184879"] okay it seems to me you are a little confused as to what RAM does in comparison to the hard disk :) 8GB or 16GB? this is RAM. this is what your system uses while its running. it is storing data you need access to immediately. every program you open, TV show you watch, music you are listening to at that specific time, are loaded onto the RAM. everything you are not using is stored on the hard drive. the more RAM you have, the more programs or data you can have running at the same time, theoretically. it does not constitute to your storage space. different programs take up different amounts of memory. most people dont need more than about 4GB, let alone 8. its usually alot more benificial for people doing alot of audio, video or photo editing, or gaming. word processing is a fairly "light" task, in that it doesn't take alot of system resources. the games you are currently playing are not the most resource demanding, but as time moves on games will become more demanding, so making sure you have a good processor and graphics card now would be beneficial if some time in the future you decided to play any of the newer releases. that being said, most of the current games out can run on the relatively underpowered graphics processor i have, albeit at a lower resolution. the range of iMacs you are looking at, have relatively powerful ATI graphics cards in them, which would be more than enough to run Left4Dead comfortably. of course, having an good processor is also important for these kinds of games, and an i5 or i7 are well up to the task. as for the hard drive space, the items that would seem to take up the most space would be your games, but having a terabyte of memory would be more than enough to hold everything you have said here. depending on how many movies you have, i reckon you would have around 500GB to spare on a 1TB drive. and if you run out of space, you could always get a cheap external drive and put your music/videos on there. hope this clears things up somewhat. :) [/QUOTE]
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