Laptops with 3gig ram (windows vista 32bit)

movingtables · 21 Dec 2007 at 11:53

i know its not worth having 4gig ram unless you have 64bit windows but:

would having 3gig ram instead of 2 gig of ram give windows vista a little boost in general terms (windows navigation ect) ?

processor: core 2 duo (2GHz)
graphics: nvidia 8600m GT256 ram

nintenjo · 21 Dec 2007 at 15:08

Yes.. the extra gig in a lot of apps often gives a good performance boost.. plus u normally get about 3.2.. not just 3

movingtables · 21 Dec 2007 at 17:11

nintenjo said:
Yes.. the extra gig in a lot of apps often gives a good performance boost.. plus u normally get about 3.2.. not just 3

I dont think i'll get 3.2 as im only getting 3gig ram lol.
but nice to know its better than 2gig ram, even under 32bit vista.

thanks

movingtables · 23 Dec 2007 at 18:35

movingtables said:
i know its not worth having 4gig ram unless you have 64bit windows but:

would having 3gig ram instead of 2 gig of ram give windows vista a little boost in general terms (windows navigation ect) ?

processor: core 2 duo (2GHz)
graphics: nvidia 8600m GT256 ram

bump.

lay-z-boy · 23 Dec 2007 at 18:47

nintenjo said:
Yes.. the extra gig in a lot of apps often gives a good performance boost.. plus u normally get about 3.2.. not just 3

How on earth do you get 3.2gigs of ram from 3? :confused:

OP: 3gb will make things a little smoother and allow vista to cache a bit more, the increased app memory headroom can help out in memory intensive stuff.

I personally like to do things evenly, 2gb or 4gb.

Tombo · 24 Dec 2007 at 17:37

lay-z-boy said:
How on earth do you get 3.2gigs of ram from 3?

From 4 not 3.

Minstadave · 26 Dec 2007 at 06:08

I'm dubious you'd notice much at all, maybe in memory hungry games it'd help a bit, but in windows probably not going to be noticeable.

I've got 4gigs and even Vista only uses about half of it, even using superfetch.

fish99 · 26 Dec 2007 at 18:45

Probably notice better CPU and quicker hard-drive more than the extra ram. Never noticed any problems running Vista 32bit on my desktop PC (see sig) but it can run like a dog at times on my laptop. They both have 2 GB DDR2, but the desktop has 7200rpm drive and double the CPU power.