How many MB are in a 1 G

I was wondering because I just added 3 G of RAM and I am installed two games tycoon games I just bought. And it says it requires 256mb to run it and if I click the 510 MB it will perform better and hold more caches.. So I clicked it but I don't want to slow down the PC. How many MB are in 1 G?

 

How many MB are in 1 G?
1000 to 1024, depending on who you ask.

 

Yup, based on base two or binary 2-4-8-16-32-64-128-256-512-1024 etc. I wonder if we'll ever see 128-bit processors?:eek

 

Be aware some of the Tycoon games (rollercoaster and Zoo mainly) get pretty heavy when it gets busy (IE: lots of people and activity) so you may find that running it well at the start but have to turn settings down later on.
Of course this is dependent on the rest of your system

 

I hope not!

As you probably know to well, the 64-bit CPU was made so that more than 4GB of RAM could be used, 64 bit CPU's are capable of using a fair few MILLION TERRABYTE'S of RAM. God knows what 128 is capable of, i doubt we will ever need that kind of power.

So I really hope that one day I will not need a terabyte of RAM. If I do, I hope If wave my hand and the task is done.

:-D:-D:-D

 

Actually, it is 1000 OR 1024. In computers, it is really 1024. But hard drive makers, in their attempt to make their drives seem bigger, use 1000.

As for 128-bit processors, well, they've been around for a few years now, from both AMD and Intel. Sun has had a 128-bit files system even longer. But the rest of the world is not ready to catch up - 64-bit needs to become commonplace first.

 

Just curious, we've gone from KiloB, 1000, to MegaB, 1,000,000, to GigaB, 1,000,000,000, now to TeraB, 1,000,000,000,000.

So when we hit the next factor of 1,000, that will be 1,000,000,000,000,000, or quadrillion. Is that going to be a QuadaByte?

And why is a billion called a Giga? Why is a trillion a Tera? Remember when a 1,000,000 seemed big?:wave:wave:wave

 

1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte

 

I always thought 10,000 but thats why they dont let me in the software forum. :-D Just playing.

 

Think Latin and Greek - Where Did Kilo, Mega, Giga and All Those Other Prefixes Come From?