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Chat => Entertainment & Technology => Topic started by: DEViANCE on September 26, 2007, 19:00:06 PM

Title: doh!
Post by: DEViANCE on September 26, 2007, 19:00:06 PM
been getting peed off with the slowness of my lappy with vista lately.

guessed it was due to the 512mb ram, so had a look on cpu-z and it said I had 4 ram slots, so I ordered 3x 512mb DDR2 4200 to make it up to 2048.

it came today, opened the lappy up and I only have 2 slots DOH!

so i have 1024 now and 1024 sitting in its packaging.

its made a big difference tho tbh i can actually use vista without feeling like punching the lappy, need to get 2x 1024 next tho  :x
Title: Re:doh!
Post by: madmax on September 26, 2007, 19:01:15 PM
or swap back to xp where you only need 2gb tops  :lol:
Title: Re:doh!
Post by: Serious on September 26, 2007, 21:39:22 PM
Having only 512MB is a real bottleneck for vista, although I can still remember getting windoze 3.11 running on 2MB! Bit slow though and I quickly upgraded to 4MB, which cost me £70 :o
Title: Re:doh!
Post by: White Giant on September 26, 2007, 22:55:25 PM
I tried vista a week or so ago with 2gb and it seemed slow.  :lol:
Title: Re:doh!
Post by: mrt on September 27, 2007, 08:33:35 AM
Are you running 64bit or 32 bit Vista?

I am running 32 bit vista with 1GB on a Sempron 2800 with average graphics card and have to say that it actually very nippy.  Have heard performance issues with the 64bit version.  Sounds like you need a very high spec with lots of RAM to run smoothly.
Title: Re:doh!
Post by: DEViANCE on September 27, 2007, 17:08:09 PM
Quote from: mrtAre you running 64bit or 32 bit Vista?

I am running 32 bit vista with 1GB on a Sempron 2800 with average graphics card and have to say that it actually very nippy.  Have heard performance issues with the 64bit version.  Sounds like you need a very high spec with lots of RAM to run smoothly.

32bit with a celeron m 440 and ati xpress 200m

with 512mb it was dire, its alot better now but still not great.