RAM and Vista

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Dwain Patterson II

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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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