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Re: Vista performance
"Joe" <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:90688E97-2094-4C4E-9C43-39657B35C598@microsoft.com...
>i have a similar system (Athlon X2 overclocked to 2.42 ghz, 1 gig of
>pc 3200
> ram & an nvidia 7900) and have performance problems too. I think
> alot of it
> comes from the fact that vista is much more ram intensive than xp
> is. On
> average when the system is idling vista uses about 700 mb or system
> ram,
> which is a fair chunk of the gig i have in there.
My system with 1 GB of PC3200 uses 521 MB of system RAM while I am
writing this post!
> from what i have heard,
> having two gigs of ram insted of one will make a big difference in
> vista
> (only about 80 bucks for a gig). If you have a 7300 with 512 of ram
> you
> should be able to run areo without slow down, it is gpu based and
> you have
> more then enough gpu ram to run areo without seeing slowdown. Also
> as far as
> games go, i think the drivers that are out now from nvidia and ati
> are more
> for functionality, not performace. just wait a little bit and see
> what
> happens.
FACK - though 2 GB of RAM are necessary for heavy 3D and work with
picture and music files only.
Roy
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