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Originally Posted by odin

Hello,

I want to build a 6 core system and would like to know what is the minimum amount of ram needed per core to perform P-1 factoring and LL tests optimally?

Is it 300MB per core or more or less?

Thanks.

300 megabytes per core would probably be overkill if you just want to run prime95 or mprime. I'd recommend Linux 64 bit for best results but ms-windows of almost any vintage works OK too.

If you want to run anything else as well that will probably be more important influence on the memory needed.