2 gigs of ram=woot!

[Bob Jeffery]

Wow I just upgraded today and I don't see how you could need anymore!!!! It makes xp fast even with a crappy single core! It even helps my games some! And for $20 that's and awesome upgrade!!! WOOO!! I just couldn't believe it helped this much! Ok I need to go remove my exclamation point key now

 

[Strokes]

I see it was the corsair value select. I have 4 GB of that in my laptop. It was great at first, but now I want some DDR2 800 instead of the DDR2 667. Try newegg when you want basically anything @ a good price: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...10525 1309221140 1309121118&name=4GB (2 x 2GB

 

[Geoff]

2GB of RAM for XP is a perfect amount, however if you use Vista or do some image/video/audio editing then getting 4GB is even better!

 

[Twist86]

That's not 100% true....once you tweak Vista and disable all the junk programs/processes Vista uses less then 500mb of Ram.

So 2Gbs would be just fine even for 64bit...unless as stated you do video editing and what not.

Light weight games like WoW COD4 etc etc don't use more then 1GB on my machine....games like GTA4 4gb = Candy since it can actually use it.

Though considering 2x2 kits are cheaper then 4x1 or 1x2 kits means 4GB is the best choice ^-^

This is just what I noticed one day when I was bored and was playing around with ram ^-^

 

[Geoff]

That's not 100% true....once you tweak Vista and disable all the junk programs/processes Vista uses less then 500mb of Ram.

So 2Gbs would be just fine even for 64bit...unless as stated you do video editing and what not.

Light weight games like WoW COD4 etc etc don't use more then 1GB on my machine....games like GTA4 4gb = Candy since it can actually use it.

Though considering 2x2 kits are cheaper then 4x1 or 1x2 kits means 4GB is the best choice ^-^

This is just what I noticed one day when I was bored and was playing around with ram ^-^

I should have worded it differently, while Vista runs fairly well on even 1GB of RAM it can benefit from having 4GB of RAM.

 

[Strokes]

I should have worded it differently, while Vista runs fairly well on even 1GB of RAM it can benefit from having 4GB of RAM.

My hp dv6000 laptop had 1 GB of RAM when I got it and it worked fine. I had a little trouble running HL:2, but that wasnt too bad compared to my parents old DELL desktop (512 MB RAM)

 

[Geoff]

My hp dv6000 laptop had 1 GB of RAM when I got it and it worked fine. I had a little trouble running HL:2, but that wasnt too bad compared to my parents old DELL desktop (512 MB RAM)

Yeah, my Acer has 1GB of RAM and even when I'm running Aero it does basic tasks just fine, I can even do some light Photoshop work without many delays.

 

[Dystopia]

Nice. 2 gigs IS plenty for XP. But nonetheless, I got 4. It really helps in gaming, I think.

 

[Shane]

i remember going from 512mb of ram to 1.5Gb in my old rig using Xp and it was so much faster.

anything from 1.5-2Gb is great for Xp.

 

[Janck]

There is never enough ram.

 

[Bob Jeffery]

I haven't used over 1.3 yet. That was while gaming.

 

[mac550]

it prob wont go much higher than that, i think your computer will leave some ram as reserve