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Does Two Gigs Of RAM Really Help With Vista?
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The answer to this is a simple YES! Today I received two sticks of 1 GB RAM for my laptop to replace the existing two sticks of 512 MB RAM and I can honestly say that my computer runs like it never has before. Obviously upgrading any part of your computer will help, but with the various things running in the background in Vista (i.e. Sidebar, Windows Firewall, and maybe DreamScene), the more memory you have the better. It’s a crime to run with anything less than two GB. While running with 1 GB was by no means bad at all, sometimes things tended to freeze up or bog down. Here are some of the things that have improved dramatically with the 2 GB upgrade.
- DreamScene now runs smoothly with no freezing or slow video.
- The bootup time was cut by almost 10 seconds.
- Sidebar loads in a second now.
- Opening most programs is now instant and the most notable is Outlook 2007.
- Multitasking is now a non-issue for me, seeing as I always have over 60% of my memory available.
4 Comments
Farmer
February 23rd, 2008
at 4:00am
Why do you use dreamscene… it’s a filthy memory hog application which, in my humble opinion is completely useless.
It was the first thing I avoided.
But you’re definately on the nail with 2GB of ram… try 4GB an you’ll also notice a heck of a differnce!!
Paul
dan
February 25th, 2008
at 8:32pm
I have had decent luck with everything from 512 to 4 gigs, Surprisingly, doubling the memory made a noticable difference every step, which I did not notice with XP.
I also have used ReadyBoost with noticable improvements. Does any one know where to look to see how it is being used?
Thanks,
Dan
William D'Avanzo
February 26th, 2008
at 12:27am
Does this make sense? There are only two major sources of delay for routine computing (no heavy graphics, etc.) - the CPU and the hard drive. Adding more RAM speeds things up because it puts less demand on the hard drive particularly for paging.
I have XP and was thinking of upgrading from 512 MB to 1024 MB. I’m leaning against it, however, because I notice that when things slow down the CPU utilization is often at or approaching 100%. (So this is where the delay is occurring.) I don’t think adding more RAM will do much to off-load the CPU or does it?
Thor667
February 26th, 2008
at 6:27pm
William D’Avanzo- it depends on if you are using all of the RAM or not if you are and constantly going over 512mb then tes i would upgrade but if you are then i wouldent and how fast is your cpu?