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| 73759 | 2002-08-25 08:10:00 | I am currently looking at a new system and wanted 1gb of ram, the salesman suggested that xp would run more efficiently with only 512kb. Could this be correct? Can anyone please advise me on this. Cheers, tinman ?:l |
tinman (1181) | ||
| 73760 | 2002-08-25 08:18:00 | One would have to ask what you are going to do to warrant a Gb but, from the web, re XP: The "sweet spot" for average users seems to be around 512MB RAM. Upgrading from 128MB to 512MB resulted in 42.5% improvement in one case, and an incredible 80.5% improvement in the other. Beyond 512MB, the benefits begin to taper off for average users (although those who work with large files may continue to see improvement by going beyond 512MB.) |
godfather (25) | ||
| 73761 | 2002-08-25 09:55:00 | thx Godfather, i will be using it for video editing with premier or similar. Also my son is a musician and he wiil record with it. cheers, tinman |
tinman (1181) | ||
| 73762 | 2002-08-25 10:06:00 | salesman is full of it. just watch out with some motherboards don't like large amount of ram modules(ie get 2x512 not 1x512 & 2x256 or 4x256) |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 73763 | 2002-08-25 10:25:00 | If you're editing video, wouldn't it be better to get as much as possible? Surely if the application supports it, it would be far quicker to manipulate video in RAM rather than thrashing the hard drive? | antmannz (28) | ||
| 73764 | 2002-08-25 11:17:00 | Get more than 256mb, XP has a lot of bloat. But more than 512mb is probably excessive. I was using an XP system with only 256mb and it was regularly using the swap file (up to 140mb) even just for normal desktop stuff. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 73765 | 2002-08-25 12:01:00 | Well I'm using XP Pro at the moment and have 512MB DDR. At the moment I've got windows (duh). Linux (in VMware) winamp, icq lite, msn messenger, clonecd tray, gigabyte utility manager, d-tools, sygate, AVG, crazybrowser (3 tabs). and I'm using just over half of my RAM. I'd recommend going with 512MB or greater. I've got friends with less and there's seem to suffer a bit. School has win2k with 128MB and they're really bad. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 73766 | 2002-08-26 06:25:00 | I'd go with the gb if you are doing what you ay you are. I used to have 128mb, and it was a dog. now have 384, and I am much happier. 256 would be the minimum. 512 would be as much as your average user would ever need, but vid and sound editing would be likely to benefit from the extra. G P |
Graham Petrie (449) | ||
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