Is 1GB of DDR2 Ram enough?

[b3atofang3l]

Is it enough?, no serious gaming. But everything else

 

[The_Other_One]

It'll do just fine.

 

[Saurian]

Absolutely. For XP, 512MB is really all you need for just basic word processing and web browsing, but 1GB does well to keep things moving well.

For Vista, 1GB would be the minimum I would run. I am on Vista right now with 512MB, and if you have more then a few tabs open in IE, have msn running, and try to open up media player or anything you're maxed out completely.

 

[b3atofang3l]

ok..after a year or so ill upgrade to 2GB

 

[b3atofang3l]

one question, where can you get vista? as in trial

 

[Redbull{wings}]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx

scroll down to the download area select your location then type in your msn stuff then download

btw its a release canidate not a demo doesn't matter much but just in case

 

[gamerman4]

here is a preview public release of Vista, it is not the retail version so you might find bugs in it and I wouldnt use it at my primary OS until at least the first service pack.
hope you have a fast connection and a lot of time to download hehe (its about a 3GB .ISO file).
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx

Edit:
Damn Redbull you beat me to it! lol

 

[b3atofang3l]

3GB? at 300kb/s its still gona take a long time. and bugs? ill forget about it...xD


thanks a lot though

 

[Angel.of.Death]

A quick question:

Im planning a computer to run VISTA and Im conpemplating between these 2 options:

1. E6600 - 1GB 800Mhz RAM
2. E6400 - 2 GB 800Mhz RAM

Both these systems will have the 7600GT. Im wondering which one is better? I play a fair bit of games =]

 

[Jet]

A quick question:

Im planning a computer to run VISTA and Im conpemplating between these 2 options:

1. E6600 - 1GB 800Mhz RAM
2. E6400 - 2 GB 800Mhz RAM

Both these systems will have the 7600GT. Im wondering which one is better? I play a fair bit of games =]

The advantages of having 2GB for vista will greatly outweigh the slight performance increase going from the E6600 to the E6400.

 

[diduknowthat]

Hmm..I would personally go with the E6600, as it has faster clock speed and 4mb of L2 cache compared to 2mb on the E6400. Another reason would be that it would be easy to upgrade to 2gb of ram when needed, but upgrading processor takes a whole lot more cash.