KristleBawl

My 512MB of RAM only scores 2.0 also.

Vista Home Basic runs fine on that, but runs better with 2GB of RAM.

Upgrading the hardware to improve the score will also make the computer
better able to handle any future upgrade to other versions of Vista.

KB

"Paul Pedersen" <nospam@no.spam> wrote in message
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> I'm setting up a new computer for a friend. It has a Sempron 3200 running
> at 1.8GHz and 512 GB RAM (shared with the video, I think) with Vista Home
> Basic (bottom of the line, I know).
>
> The processor score is 3.7, not great but acceptable. But the RAM score is
> only 2.0. Why is it so low? It's all new equipment from a computer
> superstore. I don't care about graphics for games, because there will be
> no games on this computer. But apparently something about the RAM is
> cutting overall performance by 46%!
>
> Is half a gig of ram considered inadequate these days? What can I do to
> speed up this thing?
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