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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark W**a" data-source="post: 48963" data-attributes="member: 1196">I agree that's strong, but keep in mind not all RAM is created equal.  Look at the Wii U.  It has 2 gigs of RAM, but two major problems.  One, it's DDR3 ram (read: cheap, slow ram).  40% slower than the 512MB of ram in the 360.  Plus, half of it is reserved for the OS.  Instead of an advantage, it's a bottleneck of the system.  Just look at how slow/poorly the OS on that system runs (hopefully can be fixed in the future).  EDRam can kinda/sorta make up for that, but not really.  You want fast ram.In other words, 4 gigs of say, GDDR3-5 would be much better for a console than 8 gigs of DDR3.  All those devs like Crytech, Epic, etc. who demanded more and more RAM for the console, may have actually ended up screwing us and themselves.  Like I said though, we don't know.  Hopefully it's split-pool at worst.  4 gigs of slow DDR 3 for the OS, 4 gigs of fast ram for the games.  One thing I can say with pretty much certainty it won't be 8 gigs of super fast ram, that would be nearly impossible to pull off in a 200W box all things considered.</blockquote>

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