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ahmad

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#119598 29-Mar-2008 19:47

A signature trackpak costs less than $6 in bulk.

Anyway, if I was convinced of a performance increase, I would have paid the extra $10 2 months ago.

Yes I am cheap. And I'll only spend hard earned money where I feel there would be benefit.

chakkaradeep

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#119614 29-Mar-2008 22:33

ahmad:

Anyway, if I was convinced of a performance increase

As you have queried in the forums elsewhere and here and people have told and I myself will say 2 GB is the way to go if you are planning to use Vista. Now, when we say Vista performs good with 2 GB, internally Vista handles memory management really well with 2 GB. If you record your performance of your system using performance counters (not with stopwatch

) you can really notice memory management done really well. Now it doesn't mean that other apps/drivers cannot affect these and in reality, they do. Applications like Firefox 2 takes up heaps of memory to run (FF 3 beta 4 doesnt and thats the major thing they have achieved) and even iTunes in Windows can be a nightmare sometimes. Just keeping a stopwatch and putting that as your benchmark result doesn't yield you any result, not even you can conclude on that. If you are really interested, go read how Vista handles Memory and get to know how your 2 GB is increasing your system performance.

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chakkaradeep

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#119615 29-Mar-2008 22:36

And yea, what is my Vista usage? I use for my Development (I run Visual Studio 2008 , atleast 4 VS 2008, IIS 7, SQL Server 2005) and every other stuffs (browsing, mails, windows media player) and never have found Vista perform slow with 2 GB. Its not even compared to what you use. With your use of just checking mails, surfing, no memory will be used and Vista takes the advantage of memory unless and otherwise required to. So finding the performace increase as soon as you upgrade to 2 GB is very hard.

ictgeeknz

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#119636 30-Mar-2008 07:01

chakkaradeep:

Just keeping a stopwatch and putting that as your benchmark result doesn't yield you any result, not even you can conclude on that. If you are really interested, go read how Vista handles Memory and get to know how your 2 GB is increasing your system performance.

I didn't help this discussion by posting access times.

The points I would like to make from my real-world experiences to-date:

512MB generally isn't enough, even for Windows Vista Basic.

1GB would seem to be good enough for general usage (browsing, e-mail, word processing).

Using Chaks setup as an example, I would use 2GB in that situation too. And given the extra features (services) in Windows Vista Ultimate, I would probably recommend the use of 2GB there as a minimum.

But as others have pointed out, you can't measure or improve system performance with just the RAM.

Microsoft have recommended system requirements. I think you'll find that most people in the industry tend to double Microsoft's system requirements to get 'acceptable' performance out of their PCs.

ahmad

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#122265 9-Apr-2008 10:25

I've given this more time to see if I notice any more changes to speed.

I've ditched the stopwatch, but instead performed "intensive" multitasking :p

I usually have Firefox open with anywhere between 4 and 12 tabs, and alongside this ran Windows Sidebar, Windows Live Messenger, and Word and Excel 2007. Sometimes I'll throw in Windows Live Writer just for fun.

I'm not sure if this is the sort of situation in which 2Gb > 1Gb, but I still get pauses at times switching between applications or while applications are "thinking" during a task.

I've FINALLY been delivered an update to my Conexant HD Audio driver (thanks Eric Yun at MS!) so hopefully I'll be permitted to install SP1 at last, and will see if that changes anything.

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