How Much Memory Does Vista Need?

Pieces of eight: Eight things to make Vista run faster on older hardware

Andrew Delin's WebLog — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:00:24 GMT

I have an 'older' machine, a Toshiba M400. Vista isn't blazingly fast on this machine. Here are some

re: How Much Memory Does Vista Need?

cardic — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:03:55 GMT

Windows Vista is very scalable and so it flies also with 512MB.

You need more RAM if you use a lot of applications simultaneously, but on average usage 512MB is good enough.

re: How Much Memory Does Vista Need?

SteveRowe — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:36:15 GMT

I can't comment personally on the games but I'm running pretty close to that system. I have a Core 2 Duo 6300, a GeForce 6800GS, and 2GB of memory. It run very smoothly.

Everything is moving to Vista. If you get XP now, you'll have to deal with upgrading to Vista later. It's cheaper to get Vista now.

Doing a little research leads me to this article on ExtremeTech (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2090575,00.asp). It says, "Vista runs WoW just beautifully."

Vista or XP for new PC

Mark — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:00:11 GMT

Hey guys. I'va been reading all the comments in this blog, and such. This whole conversation raises up one question for me... should I get Vista or XP for my new pc that I am getting in 2 months.

I think I'll be getting an Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 processor (2x 2.13 GHz), a NVIDIA GeForce 7600GS video card with 256 MB of RAM, and 2GB of memory.

I'll be playing games like Wolrd of Warcraft, or Armed Assault (what, I'm just 14 years old), so will games and some document programs like Word or MS Works perform better on XP or Vista?

re: How Much Memory Does Vista Need?

Dave — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:52:54 GMT

I am trying to run Word 2007 on Vista With a Core 2 Duo T5050 processor and 1g of ram, Slow as a snail

re: How Much Memory Does Vista Need?

Miles — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:45:37 GMT

I am running Vista on a Core 2 Duo 2.13 MHz Dell Dimension E520, with 1Gb RAM and 256 Mb ATI 1300 Pro Video Card. Not top specs, but I can run Firefox, McAfee virus scan, a movie on Media Player and Windows Photo Gallery, all smoothly and efficiently with Aero, while scrolling between screens. My memory is running at 91% when running all these applications.

re: How Much Memory Does Vista Need?

Earl — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:47:47 GMT

First of all, everybody is complaining about Vista and the ram and what not. To make improvements in a OS, you have to make improvements in your hardware. Thats almost a rule of thumb. Second, what if Microsoft made XP over again with 1 or 2 improvements. You better off to call that service pack 3. Then everybody would complain that they dont make big enough improvements in there OS. They are in a hard situation. I understand that the ram seems kinda high, but it would happen soon anyways to make 2 gb a standard. 3 years ago if you had 512mb, you were looking good and there was no need for anymore ram. And now if you have 512mb with xp, you are ok but not the best. I am trying to stay positive about this and i am going to give Vista a far chance.

re: How Much Memory Does Vista Need?

yogesh p balghare — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 20:31:52 GMT

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re: How Much Memory Does Vista Need?

yogesh p balghare — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 20:28:52 GMT

IT IS VERY BAD TO HEAR THAT

1) NO FASTER PERFORMANCE @ VERY HIGH COST

2) LESS COMATIBLE THAN XP, WHILE COPYING ANY DOCUMENT TO WINDOWS

3) AS COMPARED TO VISTA , SERVICE PACK ARE SERVING BETTER

4) IAM GETTING LOTS OF PROBLEM WHILE WORKING ON XP

re: How Much Memory Does Vista Need?

jane — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:15:51 GMT

Half Gig of RAM causes slow CPU on most tasks. I tend to believe 2Gigs would be about right.