Having recently built a new vista pc with 2GB of RAM, I was thinking of maybe increasing it to 3GB (4GB is not and option as it does not play well with 32bit vista). Theoretically more memory usually speeds things up but I wanted to know if anyone has performed this upgrade and wether they actually saw a marked improvement or not?
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I haven't done it myself, but if it's a cheap upgrade, then it can't hurt.
I doubt you'd notice a significant improvement unless you were doing anything particularly memory hungry. If you're dealing with serious media or technical work, then it'd probably not be a terrible idea. If you're just using it as a general purpose machine, it'd probably be unnecessary.
As for gaming... well, more memory is never a bad thing. -
It improves loading speeds. 4gig is fine for Vista 32bit (max it supports is 4gig) you just dont get it registering the full 4gig in the system readout even though it is using it. I dont understand why you say it doesnt play well with 4gig as it doesnt cause any conflicts etc... since it went retail (earlier versions prebuild had some conflicts if you had say 4gig and a 768mb video card but thats been sorted ages ago).Comment
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While you can never have too much RAM (especially with Vista), 2GB is ample and is probably the area where you'd get the least improvement.
What are your CPU and GPU? Maybe more worthy of focus.Comment
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Click on the Reliability and Performance Monitor in Vista (you might need to search for it) and see how much RAM you're using during intensive usage. I have 2Gb in my PC and it never goes above 60% RAM. For general use it hovers between 25%-35% so I'm nowhere near my limit.
If you're not near your limit then I don't think you'd see any benefit from more RAM.Comment
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On a previous computer I installed 4GB and it seemed slower than it was with 3GB (also it only register as 3.25GB even though I only had 256MB RAM on my graphics card)Originally posted by Dazzyman View PostComment
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In that case, you don't really need to upgrade anything at all.
I have 2GB in my machine (Core2 Xtreme X6800, 7900GTO, Vista 64-bit).Comment
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