vista and ram?

i have 1 gig of ram with vista and it just doesnt seem to run that fast..if i put 2 more gigs of ram would it be a big performance boost with games and everything else?perkins

I would assume yes. Vista is a memory-hog I've heard. And seen. There are 12 instances of svchost running on my PC right now, it's crazy and I have no idea why. Had like 2-4 svchost when I was using XP. And none of them was using anywhere near 100MB or RAM...

1GB is barely enough to run games well in XP these days. Make sure you don't mess up your dual-channelness though.

ya i gonna order some from newegg..i have 2 sticks of 512 and im gonna go get 2 sticks of 1 gig..that would still be dual channel right?perkins

Its definetly possible... how I don't know :P

Depends on your motherboard.

i think vista doing nothing takes up about 900mb of ram, so i think you should definatly increase your ramsoccerpr091

Vista's memory usage may seem alarming at first, but it's not nearly as bad as many think. Vista actually uses all of that memory to cache frequently used programs, so that they start up nice'n'quick. On my PC, Photoshop starts up around 5x faster than it did under XP, thanks to Vista's very smart memory management/usage.

Nevertheless, upgrading to 2GB is definitely a smart idea if you're playing PC games.

i think vista doing nothing takes up about 900mb of ram, so i think you should definatly increase your ramsoccerpr091

nah it's closer to 500-600 MB.

I first had a 5300 corsair 1gb it was slow as hell , games lagged all the time.

then i upgraded my CPU.Mobo.and my ram to 6400 Corsair 2 gb and oh man what a change! the games that would lagg runs smoothly now.