agggggghhhhh! lol what does all this meen??
in addition.....
my computer says i have 256mb of ram. my computer is slow with aplications like firefox and frostwire/limewire. but my pagefile usage on widows taks manager is only at 50%. do you think i shud buy more ram?? or is this not going to help?
my cpu is only a 1.4
any information would be helpfull to me right now thanks im verry confused lol
2007-08-16 14:06:19 · 3 answers · asked by yeh dude 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Whenever available RAM is low, your PC will access virtual memory (which is VERY SLOW). Better to increase RAM so that your PC is ALWAYS fast and DOES NOT use virtual memory. 1Gb is great for Win XP.
2007-08-19 02:47:39 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, RAM is physical memory and virtual and page file memory is reserved space on the hard drive, sort of.
Anyway, 256 MB of RAM is like the minimum to run XP with. I did a clean install of XP yesterday and it used 300 MB of RAM at idle.
Extra RAM will give your PC an overall performance boost big time. Go for at least 1GB.
In all honesty, your computer should be on the shelf collecting dust. In your shoes, I'd go build a new system. You can build a
pretty nice high performance system pretty cheap right now, especially if you'll be re-using parts from the old one.
2007-08-16 21:24:33 · answer #2 · answered by Tyrant GT 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ram would improve the overall speed of things. If you plan to upgrade... go with about 1 Gb
2007-08-16 21:14:57 · answer #3 · answered by PBcompanies.com 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋