512 MB to 1 GB

My old compaq only had 256MB ram, and it ran XP Home fine. I was also able to play UT2004 with it.
 
[-0MEGA-] said:
My old compaq only had 256MB ram, and it ran XP Home fine. I was also able to play UT2004 with it.
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Yes, but how well. I'm not saying it can't be used, I'm just saying it offers performance which shouldn't be acceptable for this day and age.
 
like my gramsp still can play games....but it take a bit more time to response....256 is still ok i guess..
Chris
 
I know what you are saying. My laptop only has 248MB(8MB shared with graphics :( lol) and that ran XP alright i suppose, but then when i installed Service pack 2 my comp slowed right down. I think the service pack 2 require a further 30-40Mb of RAM so at this stage my comp was really starting to feel the pressure, thats when i went and made my new desktop :)
 
terpsjohn said:
do computers even come w/ 256 anymore, or is 512 the minimum?
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Yup, cheapo boxes still do. Saw an eMachines at Wal-Mart last week (W3118) that comes with just 256MB. Some Dells do as well.
Tom
 
wow, that's surprising. ha, plus I didn't even know walmart sold computers...guess they sell everything. i just don't understand someone's use for a 256 box.
 
Acer is the most common one with 256 i beleive.....lots of their PC are still like that. Dellm i'm not sure. HP are about 1-2 GB now :D

Chris
 
My aunt just got a Dell that has 256, and it runs like crap. She knows a little about comps, so she's gonna install 512 more for 768. So Dell does ship with 256 ram. It can be used for light word processing and email, maybe some media playback, but those things will be slow and painful to use at that speed. Not to mention system startup and responsiveness times will likewise be compromised as well.
 
Dells that have celeron cpu's usually ship with 256Mb, not all of them with celeron's though. And in them PC's you usually get 80Gb hard drive, onboard sound/video, 15" monitor(sometimes CRT), DVD-ROM + CDRW
 
The lowest HDD I see shipping is 60 GB. I don't know why they don't do 40GB, but no big deal, if they charge the same, 40's not really enough these days.
 
yea 256mb is about enough to play music... and windows XP.
512mb is probably minimum if you want to be productive with your pc.
i suggest 2gb though, you can disable the pf then and never run out of memory (almost never.)
i actually disabled the pf one time and it was asking for more memory while i had utorrent, itunes, aim and was playing quake 4 all at once.
 
512 if ok for moderate gaming. 2gb is overkill for all but gaming meat heads, and those who need it for dedicated tasks (you'd know if that you you).
1gb is still a heaft amount of ram.
 
I had an acer aspire (thing was like green and purple) that had 256MB when I was in high school years ago. Thing was slow. Can't imagine using anything like it now.
 
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