Vista - 2GB to 4GB, how much of an improvement?

Vista 64 or XP 64 can make use of the 8 gig of memory your mother board can
support. With comming updates to Vista and fixes to certain video drivers,
it is possible to benefit from up to 4 gig of memory with a 32 bit version
of Vista; perhaps. Stick with 2 gig until you read that the fix is in and
that it makes a real difference. Soon it may be cost effective to go with
solid state storage which should make a real difference in performance.

Richard

well, i didnt upgrade from 2 to 4 gb's , i just started out with the 4 gigs in my sig.
i did install vista with only 1 stick, and there was a huge difference with all 4 gigs installed. I will be moving up to 8 gigs shortly.

I'm sure there would have been a huge difference just going from 1 to
2 GB. It is the difference of going from 2 to 4 GB that I am
wondering about.

Al


On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:07:14 -0500, icon57
<icon57.2w1a7a@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote:

The problem only occurred with earlier betas of the nVidia graphics card
drivers for Vista x64 and 4 GB RAM. You may not need to "remap the
memory", especially if the BIOS setup is the most recent and doesn't
show an option like that. Try the ASUStek message board and or:

http://asustech.15.forumer.com/index.php?act=idx

which is a pretty decent independent message board that covers only ASUS
motherboards.

JB

Alfred Kaufmann wrote:

Also look at this thread:

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...Language=en-us

Alfred Kaufmann wrote:

Hm,

yes, the pagefile is still usefull. Not needed if you use "applications".
This depends on what you call normal applications!

Little to no improvement is absolute BS!
I definatly got a big performance increase when I went from 2 to 4Gb in my
Opteron185 with 8800GTX.

Photoshop got faster, Word2007 starts faster, most games I play perform
better.



"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"JW" <JW@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1F86980B-0853-4629-B3BD-020AFD077745@xxxxxxThose 2gig "lash drives" can really hurt, though! Something for the S&M
lovers!

Where does it improve things, then?

I have an instance here that it did.

1gig ram on a P4 3Ghz here upgraded from XP to Vista Business. Machine was
running not so good but then I expected I would need another gig of ram and
hadn't gotten it yet. What I did find, by accident, was a 4 gig flash drive
that is readyboost OK. I put it in and used it as "extra ram" as the
motherboard will be replaced later this year and has only DDR on it. I will
need DDR2 for the next one.

When I put that 4gig flash drive in and configured it for readyboost, it
made a noticeable difference though it wasn't a FABULOUS difference.

I would appreciate knowing in which cases you think extra ram WOULD make a
difference. Eg, video editing, sound editing?

"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ready Boost does not provide extra Ram, It creates a high speed cache memory
between your MOBO memory and your paging file so that when your system does
need more main memory it can can page out currently not in use memory pages
faster so that the main memory can be used for another file or app and it
also causes memory pages to be retrieved faster when they have been paged
out.
Just the fact the Ready Boost helps your system indicates that you need more
main memory in order to reduce the requirement for paging.
Of course even if paging is not required extra memory acts as a disk cache
reducing the amount of time to retrieve currently inactive apps or files
that have recently been used such as edited files that need to be reused.

"Diamontina Cocktail" <lrb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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i am curious: what did you read that recommends against adding system memory?

"Alfred Kaufmann" wrote: