query bout hw much RAM...

[confused..]

i just hav a quick query, im going to be using vista home premium on my new pc nd am not sure how much ram to gt 2gb or 4gb

vista takes up to 1 gb and then im going to be burning music, listening to music, browsing the net, watching movies and occasionally some coursewrk and revision...oh nd msn



can you guyz help.. thnx

 

[Teaf]

2GB for the stuff you need. Vista only shows as taking that much because it's caching a lot of your RAM so stuff loads quicker, then something really needs it, it releases the RAM. 4GB if you are going to be playing games at high settings and are getting the 64bit Vista.

 

[confused..]

yh am going to be getting the 64 bit version

 

[truebluecfc]

im going to be using vista home premium

Is that 64bit? if its 32bit then im afraid you dont have much of an option as it wont fully recognise/utilize 4GB of RAM, be around 3-3.5GB'ish.

Anyway... 2GB is fine, 4GB is overkill unless you do lots of multitasking or memory intensive stuff, personally for what you plan on doing, 2GB is more than enough even if you plan on doing any Gaming.

Saying that, theirs no harm in getting 4GB of RAM

 

[Energize]

32-bit os can't use more than 2GB of ram for applications anyway.