Vista 2 GB Vs 4 GB

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freshseasons

King of my own Castle
Right now i have 2 X 1 Gb DDR 2 Ram (Dual Channel )overclocked by increasing FSB Mhz and Volt 1.9 running on Vista .
I wanted to know how much difference will adding another 2 GB Ram make to it.
Should i go for it , or skip it as it wouldn't make any real time difference?
 

aryayush

Aspiring Novelist
Depends on what you do on the computer actually and whether you are experiencing any slowness.

And if in doubt, I do believe that an investment in RAM is never wasted because the more the RAM, the better a computer performs. I was reading an article on how to speed up XP (quite a while ago) and the author had listed nine useful tips. In the last tip, he wrote, "10. Screw the other tips, spend a little cash and feed the bugger more RAM. It will fly." I am not sure this was the exact sentence but you get the gist. And I tend to agree with that opinion.
Even if you don't need it right now, more RAM will only help you once you install a lot of applications and run them together.
 

slugger

Banned
aryayush said:
Even if you don't need it right now, more RAM will only help you once you install a lot of applications and run them together.
ya like designing d Airbus A380, or its Indian equivalent

Workstations performin solid modelling 4 d A380 on Catia were equiped wit 4GB of RAM
 

janitha

Wise Old Owl
But I heard 32 bit application cannot utilize more than 3.5 GB!

I have been using 2GB for nearly 2 years and the RAM utilization is ~500MB only, but I have disabled the virtual memory. (XP)
 

Choto Cheeta

Rebooting
But I heard 32 bit application cannot utilize more than 3.5 GB!

They can, some time not by default, as in those rare cases one may need to use PAE Switch....

*www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEdrv.mspx
 

iMav

The Devil's Advocate
when ur working on the machine 2 or 4 shouldnt make a visible difference but when u start ps, corel, ie and access ur mail together its gonna b better on a 4gb add to that playing games like nfs pro street
 

Choto Cheeta

Rebooting
^^^^

Well I would say even at Games too, when u have a Getter Dedicated cards like 8600+ u wont see any difference with 4GB :p I have 4GB, for OverClocking purpose I poped 2 out out of the Box :p, and relly no difference in 2GB or 4GB whats so ever :lol:

but yeah, one stuff really helps with 4GB thats Virtualization... :) its damn easy to run 4/5 instance of Virtual OSes, on VPC or VMware :D
 
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iMav

The Devil's Advocate
ya i too feel 4gb would be a little too much but what the hell as arya said ... more the supplements better the performance ... more the merrier ....
 

slugger

Banned
iMav said:
when u start ps, corel, ie and access ur mail together its gonna b better on a 4gb add to that playing games like nfs pro street

tell me how wud u work on PS, CS, chk ur mail AND play NFS all @ d same time all on d same rig
LOL!!!
 

Zeeshan Quireshi

C# Be Sharp !
iMav said:
ya i too feel 4gb would be a little too much but what the hell as arya said ... more the supplements better the performance ... more the merrier ....
2 GB RAM in enuf according to me , and you can run your system quite well even while virtualizing(1 OS only) in Vista :)
 
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