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Installed my 2 gigs of ram... Not noticing a difference from 1 gig in Vista Ultimate.
I'm surprised. According to everyone I should be noticing a huge difference, the sky should be falling, etc, but it's not.
Games run better, yes, but Vista runs like Xp for me. I am not noticing a difference in speed from 1 gig to 2 gig.
I could play games perfectly, at high resolutions, with 1 gig of ram.
Maybe I have teh magic touch and you people just suck, which is why I keep sayign Vista is great... :p
If I saw how badly Vista was running on your machines, I'd bash Vista too.. :(
EDIT: Well, one difference. Physical memory has gone down from around 75% usage to 30% usage. But the speed in Vista itself is exactly the same.
It can't be the ram either, part of my 512 megs of 667 ram was Alienware, part of it was horrid PNY, which slowed it down...
This ram should be far faster.
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Re: Installed my 2 gigs of ram... Not noticing a difference from 1 gig in Vista Ultimate.
Well if physical memory usage has changed you know that you installed it correctly which leads me to believe that perhaps 1GB was enough for the tasks you are running or that you expected far too much from the upgrade. It could also be that none of your apps/games were bottlenecked by 1GB.
Just a few musings.
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Re: Installed my 2 gigs of ram... Not noticing a difference from 1 gig in Vista Ultimate.
Do you use Readyboost? THG had an articel about it a while ago. They tested the use of Readyboost and found that Readyboost worked fine for 1GB but didnt speed up anything with 2GB Ram.
1GB + readyboost compared to 2gb + readboost lessens the differance.
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Re: Installed my 2 gigs of ram... Not noticing a difference from 1 gig in Vista Ultimate.
Run some memory intensive tasks, like playing Rainbow Six : Las Vegas. It made my notebook slow to a crawl.
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Re: Installed my 2 gigs of ram... Not noticing a difference from 1 gig in Vista Ultimate.
I suspect this is because for whatever reasons, you've never had to page that much with 1GB. We can attribute this to superior memory management in Vista...or memory efficiency in the applications you use.
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Re: Installed my 2 gigs of ram... Not noticing a difference from 1 gig in Vista Ultimate.
I bet if you do a clean install. Then you would notice a big difference.
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Re: Installed my 2 gigs of ram... Not noticing a difference from 1 gig in Vista Ultimate.
Yeah and clean out any bloatware or system power hogging anti-virus.
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Re: Installed my 2 gigs of ram... Not noticing a difference from 1 gig in Vista Ultimate.
Shouldn't that be
"You may notice a difference on a clean install"?
How does it go? If it isn't broke... and besides suggesting a reformat doesn't make sense? That infers a clean system. So if Zellio running an "un-streamlined" system is doing OK by all accounts, I don't see what a reformat would do?
This is not a flame post. I am genuinely curious why a reformat would be suggested. I am not asking for the standard "make your system lean and mean" answer. Emphasis that Zellio's system is running fine (by his OP) as it is now
:)
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Re: Installed my 2 gigs of ram... Not noticing a difference from 1 gig in Vista Ultimate.
I envy you and pity you at the same time. ;)
I envy you because you can run Vista with 1GB of RAM and not have any problems, while I'm using 1.5GB and I find myself waiting quite often.
I pity you because you bought a brand new gigabyte of memory and you aren't noticing any difference.
Matt
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Re: Installed my 2 gigs of ram... Not noticing a difference from 1 gig in Vista Ultimate.
You probably don't run programs with large memory usage other than games, and probably not concurrently. Graphics programs and the like will really slow down your machine if you don't have enough memory, which is the main reason I went with 2 gigs. For general usage though, over a gig won't help a ton, but it will help eventually, given another refresh or two of MS Office, etc. I'll bet you also "tune" your machine to remove most startup programs, shut down almost everything when gaming, etc., which makes having 2GB less important.