Exactly, xp is for tiny/ancient computers. But your win7 install must be stripped bare, as it should use at least half of your physical memory, as that's the proper way for it to be truly responsive. Win7 feels "fed" enough if it has at least 2GB cached at all times.
On Nov 10, 7:17 pm, Espionage724 <[email protected]> wrote: > The only game I had that takes huge amounts of memory is SC2. But > unrelated to that, Windows 7 x64 for me on a 3GB system uses about > 900MB average no matter what I do, and XP 32-bit uses 400MB average. > > > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:57 PM, tribaljet <[email protected]> wrote: > > You clearly don't know where MAD is going, ok? That's laughable. I > > have 2GB which is an incredibly low amount for what I do, and 1GB is > > only acceptable for primitive OSes like xp. > > > On Nov 10, 6:55 pm, Namige <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have 1GB and I rarely run into problems although I sometimes wish I > >> had more RAM when running games. > > >> And yeah, it's sort of like saying what can 8 Billion dollars do for > >> you that 4 Billion Dollars can't? > > >> On Nov 10, 6:20 pm, tribaljet <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > 6GB is enough for most users. The whole new kernel philosophy is to > >> > use as much resources available as possible to increase system > >> > performance and responsiveness. Large amounts of ram (6GB+) are for > >> > people who work on their computers, not play. Also, most people seem > >> > to forget that the more ram a computer has, more it will crash. 4GB is > >> > more than enough for the vanilla user, but I'm guessing you'll be fine > >> > with 6, or 8 if you're so itching to get that amount. But make no > >> > mistakes, unless you open the memory limits of certain apps, you can > >> > easily manage by with 4GB. > > >> > On Nov 10, 5:59 pm, MAD_BEAST <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > More simple: > > >> > > If a system running hard and dosent use more than the 4GB Available > >> > > RAM upgrading to 8GB will improve the perfomance although it wont use > >> > > more than 4GB? > > > -- > > 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS > > -- > Acer TravelMate 2480 > GFX: GMA950 CPU: Intel Celeron M 420 @ 1.6Ghz RAM: 2GB DDR2 333Mhz > HDD: Samsung 120GB 5400RPM SATA -- 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
