How much RAM is needed to run Yahoo Music Internet Radio properly? With 256MB my PC "freezes" when Music runs.

Question

My internet access is via WLAN with 54MBit per second. PC has Pentium 4 processor with 2926MHz.

Answer 1

Most cases 512mb is the minimum, but with most applications you should be running at least 1gb to runs aps smoothly!!!

Answer 2

You have the bare minimum amount of RAM. Confirm what your system will max out at in RAM size and then go buy as much RAM as your budget will allow. At best add another 256 megs of RAM and if you can budget it, get a gig of RAM if it's expandable.
You can't go out and just buy RAM, they come in different speeds and flavors, sdram, ddram, etc. If you can, take the Ram out and bring it, write down every number on the ram you can find and take paper to Circuit City or somebody for matching. It's pretty simple to remove and replace as long as you remember not to do it on a carpet (static discharge could damage the chip) and the chip is "keyed" which means it can only fit one way into the slot, like a key ....hope this helps...

Answer 3

On my computer at work it only has 256mb of ram but it runs yahoo radio fine??

it may be your internet connection thats the problem. Try going to control panel > internet options and clear all the cookies, history, web info then do a disk clean up (this may speed it up a little).

Do you have broadband? because it wont work without?

If you are.... Try not using your wireless connection and plug you computer directly into the modem and see if it works .... if it does then signal strength is not sufficent?

hope this helps :)

Answer 4

I had to boost my memory to 1 MB ram. You need to see what the max memory is. I presume you have 2.9 MHz. Order off the internet but make read the return policy just in case your module does not work. Some give you your money back and some will only exchange for defective module.

Answer 5

OK, first of all your uplink to your router or access point is irrelavent, since you're connection is to the internet. the max speed you're gonna get out of that if you're a home user is 10Mbps (ten megabytes per second) if you're a business user, you still have bandwidth restrictions. Just wanted to clear that up, even though it says you're connected at 54mbps, you're only gonna transfer data as fast as your internet connection allows. (most highspeed connections range from 768kbps-10mbps)

Secondly, if you have 256mb of ram, I'm sorry for you!, ok, that aside, you shouldn't have a problem running the software, but since your ram is so low, you may want to think about an upgrade. check with your pc's manufacturer to see what kind of ram your system uses, and how much of it the board can take, then go to either newegg.com or ebay and punch it in, get what you can for the best price. I would recommend kingston or crucial ram. ram upgrades are as simple as inserting a credit card, you pop open the PC, plug it in, close the lid and hit the power button (make sure the PC is off before you do this!) with windows XP running SP2, I recommend at LEAST 512mb of ram, and like the last guy said, 1 gig is preferred for smooth operation. If you can't afford that much ram, try adjusting the virtual memory settings in windows. the max it'll allow is 4 gb for a pagefile (virtual ram, where it uses a portion of your hard disk like it's memory)

to do this, you'll want to right click "my computer" go to properties,
then to the Advanced tab. Then where it says performance (the top option) go to settings. when you get there, go to the Advanced tab in that window. virtual memory is at the bottom, click the change button you'll see a dialog box with all the pagefiles. if you have more than one hard drive, select the drive with the most free space. you want to use the custom size option here, as the system managed one is slower than molasses in january. (it shrinks and expands based on your needs, which is good and bad, it doesn't kill hard drive space unnecessarily, but it also takes a lot of time to shrink and expand) The custom option will allow you to set the filesize. in your case i would make it 1024 megabytes (1 gb) or more. it depends on how much hard drive you have to spare. If you only have one hard drive, select that one and do the same thing, custom option, and set it at 1024 or above. now here's the kicker: make sure that whatever number you choose (anything between 2mb and 4096mb) is the same in each box. This causes it to be the same size all the time, which can eat up storage space, but speeds things up a bit, since it doesn't have to shrink and expand at all, it just uses it as memory available to windows.

Keep in mind, that no matter how much virtual memory you have, it'll never be as fast as RAM chips. even the fastest SCSI and SATA2 Drives can't compete with ram, since they have to talk with the processor, read and write all at the same time, whereas the RAM itself is written to and from the processor directly. no middleman.

RAM is more per gigabyte than hard drive, but if you can't afford the RAM right now, this should hold you till you can.

btw, if you adjust virtual memory settings, it'll make you restart the computer.
be sure to defrag your hard drive before you change virtual memory settings too!

Answer 6

A 512 MB will do it, the best is to upgrade to 1 gigabyte. Upgrading to 1 gigabyte wiil be better but it all depends on your budget

Answer 7

512 ram is needed

Answer 8

256MB isn't really enough to do anything much these days. I'd upgrade to 512MB.

Answer 9

try winamp, you can try all sorts of streamcasting from that.