RAM and Performance

[William R. Mosher]

I just increased the amount of RAM on my Gateway PC from 768 megabytes to 1.5 gigabytes by replacing a 256 megabyte unit with a 1 gigabyte unit and I noticed a dramatic increase in performance. I was wondering if others here have had a similar experience.

William

 

[Reed [MVP]]

Yes, indeed! The additional RAM allows tasks and services to stay in memory
longer, reducing the time that they get spooled out to the cache on the hard
drive. If your hard drive is slow or fragmented, this slows things down
even more.

-Reed Rinn
MVP Shell / User


I just increased the amount of RAM on my Gateway PC from 768 megabytes to
1.5 gigabytes by replacing a 256 megabyte unit with a 1 gigabyte unit and I
noticed a dramatic increase in performance. I was wondering if others here
have had a similar experience.

William

 

[jonah]

I just increased the amount of RAM on my Gateway PC from 768 megabytes to 1.5 gigabytes by replacing a 256 megabyte unit with a 1 gigabyte unit and I noticed a dramatic increase in performance. I was wondering if others here have had a similar experience.

William

Yep, upped the RAM on my test box from 512 to 1Gb, Vista was fine on
512 but adding Office 12 slowed the whole thing to a crawl. Adding RAM
cured it.

The way things are going in 10 years the latest MS OS will need 50Gb
of RAM just to run e mail.



Jonah

 

[William R. Mosher]

Will it be enough to operate a Star Trek style Holo-deck?

William

I just increased the amount of RAM on my Gateway PC from 768 megabytes to 1.5 gigabytes by replacing a 256 megabyte unit with a 1 gigabyte unit and I noticed a dramatic increase in performance. I was wondering if others here have had a similar experience.

William

Yep, upped the RAM on my test box from 512 to 1Gb, Vista was fine on
512 but adding Office 12 slowed the whole thing to a crawl. Adding RAM
cured it.

The way things are going in 10 years the latest MS OS will need 50Gb
of RAM just to run e mail.



Jonah

 

[William R. Mosher]

I have Diskeeper for Vista set to defragment my hard drives every night while I am sleeping. I have this thing about trying to run my computers with the best possible performance without having to sacrifice the visual aspects of the user interface.

I also noticed that VMware Player runs Windows XP Professional much faster also. I created a virtual computer running windows XP Professional with 256 megabytes of RAM and activated on my old Dell PC. Then I burned the files on to a DVD, then copied the files to my Vista computer. I like having a fresh XP install for VMware handy. That way I can experiment with it without having a thought for 'What if it breaks'. If it does, then I can delete the files and copy the fresh install again in about six minutes and be up and running with a VMware windows XP computer. Much faster than re-installing a new copy.

William
Yes, indeed! The additional RAM allows tasks and services to stay in memory
longer, reducing the time that they get spooled out to the cache on the hard
drive. If your hard drive is slow or fragmented, this slows things down
even more.

-Reed Rinn
MVP Shell / User


I just increased the amount of RAM on my Gateway PC from 768 megabytes to
1.5 gigabytes by replacing a 256 megabyte unit with a 1 gigabyte unit and I
noticed a dramatic increase in performance. I was wondering if others here
have had a similar experience.

William

 

[Jimmy Brush]

Nah,

That will require 12 kiloquads of memory... not to mention a large room with
black wallpaper and yellow grid lines running accross it.

Believe it or not, after Paramount licensing fees, the wallpaper costs more
than the memory.

- JB

 

[Travis King]

lol
#1, you have the bridge... ; )

 

[Rockwell]

I just increased the amount of RAM on my Gateway PC from 768 megabytes
to 1.5 gigabytes by replacing a 256 megabyte unit with a 1 gigabyte unit
and I noticed a dramatic increase in performance. I was wondering if
others here have had a similar experience.

William

YES! Vista is memory hungry and resource intensive.

 

[Stooovie]

Vista 5456 is VERY (and I mean very) snappy with A64 3000+ and 1,5 GB of RAM. I can compare it to maybe a half-year old XP installation, whereas GUI performance is higher in Vista (with glass enabled).
I just increased the amount of RAM on my Gateway PC from 768 megabytes to 1.5 gigabytes by replacing a 256 megabyte unit with a 1 gigabyte unit and I noticed a dramatic increase in performance. I was wondering if others here have had a similar experience.

William

 

[Guest]

<<Vista is memory hungry and resource intensive.

It sure is. I have 1g, show usage from 40-50%

What's the recommendation for PageFile size? The default, 1321, is lower
than it would have been XP. Used to be 1.5-3X

 

[Peter M]

It only looks that way but all the it's "memory hungry resouce intensive"
crowd never test to prove it, they just look at the cpu/mem gadet or
taskmanager. I tried with pre-RC1 and XP by loading as many programs/windows
as I could... preRC1 went far, XP gasped at less then half of what I did in
Vista by crashing on me. Vista mem/cpu management is far ahead of XP.

 

[Guest]

Any thoughts on Pagefile?