PaulB

Yes .5GB is considered bare minimum for VISTA. It works okay with 1GB but 2Gb
seems to be the sweet spot.
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Paul


"Paul Pedersen" wrote:

> 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).
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> 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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