i was told that windows vista sucks abt 512mb of ram just to operate. so should i get 2 gb ram? its for normal home, study, small business, and entertainment use. not hard core gaming.
2007-08-04 15:25:03 · 5 answers · asked by vida 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
1gb is sufficient for vista. 2 gb is best. if u can aford 2gb of memory, get it.
2007-08-04 15:29:02 · answer #1 · answered by Jake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, Vista has an interesting glitch most people who use it know about now. Here's the news...
Vista was designed that, when an app stopped running, it's RAM returned to the free pool.
Here's the catch:
Not all programs WILL release the RAM.
I'd suggest getting as much RAM as you can get. Even using simple, low-use programs with 1 gig, you'll only get about four/five hours use of Vista.
Of course, you could buy a RAM scrubber like Memturbo, which forces RAM to be released, thus allowing you to run as long as you need.
2007-08-04 15:30:23 · answer #2 · answered by Roahn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
run Vista with at least 2GB of RAM. you can run it with less, but it will run much slower. Vista needs basically the same hardware as hard core gaming such as enough RAM and a fast video card. DO NOT RUN VIDEO ON THE MOTHERBOARD IF YOU WANT VISTA TO RUN DECENTLY! you must use a real video card. do not let anybody else lie to you and tell you that video on the motherboard will run Vista just fine.
2007-08-05 16:19:26 · answer #3 · answered by stoneco 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it all depends on what you want to do.
if you have two 512MB ram chips and all you do on your computer is surf the Internet and write papers for school 1GB of ram should be sufficient, but if you plan on downloading music i would suggest 2GB of ram. now, if you are using your computer to play games and download music i would suggest at least 2GB of ram preferably 4GB
2007-08-04 15:32:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'll know as soon as you try to download it.
2007-08-04 15:30:37 · answer #5 · answered by lafinlady 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋