RAM and Vista

How much RAM does it take to run Vista at a nice pace? I have 2 G RAM in my
main PC, and my other pc i have 1G and a 512 stick and sometimes i feel the
smaller one does better running problems sometimes.

Dwain Patterson II;836520 Wrote:
> How much RAM does it take to run Vista at a nice pace? I have 2 G RAM in
> my
> main PC, and my other pc i have 1G and a 512 stick and sometimes i feel
> the
> smaller one does better running problems sometimes.

in my own personal experience..... i have found vista runs happily on
3gb of ram

i found that 2gb DDR2 (dual channel) gskill HZs 6400s running @ 1050mhz
4-4-4-12
is slower than.....
3gb (unmatched/single channel) 5300s running @ 600mhz 5-5-5-12

so the amount you have is far better than its quality..
SK


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On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:20:09 -0400, "Dwain Patterson II"
<> wrote:

> How much RAM does it take to run Vista at a nice pace?


The amount depends on what applications you run. For the average
person, 2GB is a good amount.


> I have 2 G RAM in my
> main PC, and my other pc i have 1G and a 512 stick and sometimes i feel the
> smaller one does better running problems sometimes.

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I started with 1GB but recently upgraded to 2GB and things are happier
now. My sense is that 2GB is OK for most home users.

"Dwain Patterson II" <> wrote:

>How much RAM does it take to run Vista at a nice pace? I have 2 G RAM in my
>main PC, and my other pc i have 1G and a 512 stick and sometimes i feel the
>smaller one does better running problems sometimes.

It depends on how you use the machine.
For some users 2GB is enough, many require 3-4GB to achieve their best
performance.
In Vista, I turn off all the eye candy, indexing, etc. to improve
performance.
My systems that dual boot XP/Vista run XP noticable faster on the same
hardware.
I have not put Vista on anything less than a P4-2.8Ghz/2GB/256MB AGP/250GB
EIDE.
XP runs faster on that by about 25%.
On the Q6600/4GB/512MB DDR3 PCIe/2x500GB SATA, XP runs so fast, I have a
hard time keeping up...
Vista jogs on that one..
Just for comparison, I popped an extra HDD into my dual XEON
2.66Ghz/2GB/2x100GB SCSI and installed Ultimate.
Even with 2 separate CPUs and 10K RPM drives, XP sprinted, Vista trotted.

"Dwain Patterson II" <> wrote in message
news:...
> How much RAM does it take to run Vista at a nice pace? I have 2 G RAM in
> my main PC, and my other pc i have 1G and a 512 stick and sometimes i feel
> the smaller one does better running problems sometimes.