Is 320 MB of RAM good?

Question

My "future CPU" has 320 MB. Do you think it is good? Thanks.

Answer 1

You must be joking man. You need 1 GB to run Vista.

Answer 2

512 mb is the minimal system requirement. Issues such as hardware lockups, data corruption or other errors may arise with older hardware, such as old SCSI cards and a newer front side bus such as a motherboard with a 100MHz FSB. Verify your component's compatibility with your motherboard and/or Motherboard FSB speed. FSB is also known as Front Side Bus. FSB is also known as the Processor Bus, Memory Bus, or System Bus and connects the CPU with the main memory and is used to connect to other components within the computer. The FSB can range from speeds of 66 MHz, 133 MHz, 100 MHz, 266 MHz, 400 MHz, and up. The FSB is now another important consideration when looking at purchasing a computer Motherboard or a new computer.
The FSB speed can generally be set either using the system BIOS or with jumpers located on the computer motherboard. While most motherboards will allow you to set the FSB to any setting, ensure that the FSB is properly set unless you plan to Overclock the computer. In computers, the front side bus (FSB) or system bus is a term for the physical bi-directional data bus that carries all electronic signal information between the central processing unit (CPU) and other devices within the system such as random access memory (RAM), AGP video cards, PCI expansion cards, hard disks, the memory containing the system BIOS, etc. The maximum theoretical bandwidth of the front side bus is determined by the product of its width, its frequency and the number of data transfers it performs per clock tick. For example, a 32-bit (4-byte) wide FSB with a frequency of 100 MHz that performs 4 transfers/tick has a maximum bandwidth of 1600 MB/second. The number of transfers per tick is dependent on the technology used, with (for example) GTL+ offering 2 transfers/tick, EV6 4 transfers/tick, and AGTL+ 8 transfers/tick.

Answer 3

320 MB not at all sufficient. only XP uses up to 512 MB ram .and for vista minimum recommended is 512.only firefox or IE takes up to 50 MB ram .

so newer hardware has Larger physical address space: Current implementations of the AMD64 architecture can address up to 1 tebibyte of RAM (240 bytes); the architecture permits extending this to 4 pebibytes (252 bytes) in the future (limited by the page table entry format).

In legacy mode, Physical Address Extension (PAE) is supported, as it is on most current 32-bit x86 processors, allowing access to a maximum of 64 gibibytes.

(A gibibyte (a contraction of giga binary byte) is a unit of information or computer storage, abbreviated GiB.

1 gibibyte = 230 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes = 1024 mebibytes

The gibibyte is closely related to the gigabyte, which can either be a synonym for gibibyte, or refer to 109 bytes = 1,000,000,000 bytes, depending on context (see binary prefix).

Answer 4

No. The -minimum- for the average computer today has at least 512MB. The standard is quickly becoming 1GB, and 2GB is becoming more and more common, especially with the release of Windows Vista.

This is especially so if your computer does not have that good a processor (minimum of 2GHz, or AMD 2000+) or does not have a dedicated video card. In fact, especially especially so if it does not have a dedicated video card, as the computer will then have to take from the system's RAM to fuel the integrated graphics chip.

Answer 5

My neighbor has 256 and runs painfully slow on broadband and for virus scans (especially while trying to do other stuff in the meantime). I have 512 on one of my laptops and it's a bit better in similar circumstances and 1024 on the other and it's much better. I'm using dialup. I run scans daily, so I'm almost always doing something else in the meantime...

Answer 6

Actually it is not your "future CPU". your future system can have 320MB of RAM, and this will be correct.

Current desktop PC's usually ships with 512MB of system RAM. ıf you are going to upgrade your operating system to Windows Vista I recommend at least 1GB of RAM.

You can have detailed info on the link below.

Cpu is Central Processing Unit
RAM is Random Access Memory

Answer 7

Haha, not at all man. Modern computers have 2GBs of RAM, thats 2048 MB's. But what can I say my computer only has 378 of ram

Answer 8

Is enough.
All ignorants.

Windows Xp needs at least 256mb in ram.

But I recomend you 512 at least, preferably 1 gb

Answer 9

I would highly recommend 1 G RAM. You can probably pick up a couple of sticks of RAM to add to it.

Answer 10

320mb I think these days your need the minium of a 1gb. I hope your not a gamer because no games would work on that.