It depends to some extent as to what applications you are using, but you
will be unlikely to see any performance increase, and certainly no increase
if using Office or any basic type apps.
Generally only video rendering or other types of rendering take advantage of
ram.
You will probably see a better sys response by uninstalling Norton & using
something less of a hog
"ChrisCoaster" <ckozicki@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> Vista Home Premium SP1
>
> Pentium Dual Core 2.0gHz
>
> 400gByte Hard drive
>
> 3Gig RAM
>
> Question:
> According to the store I bought it from, I have a 32bit version of
> Vista which will read up to 3.5gibabytes of RAM if I install two 2Gig
> sticks. In order to read all 4Gig(or 3.9), they told me I'd have to
> install a 64bit version of Vista.
>
> Is this information correct?
>
> The machine is more than fast enough for my needs now, even with
> chubby Norton AV 2007 running in the background, etc, but should I
> throw in a second 2Gig stick just to get the few extra horsepower from
> the 0.4Gig it would read?
>
> -ChrisCoaster