RAM

[Raumarik]

Sold my PC 8 months ago but I'm going to be building a new one shortly (so expect a "spec me.. blah blah" thread

I was curious though. Last time I built my own PC was about 3 years ago, I stuck in 1Gb of matched RAM (2x512Mb). These days most people seem to be opting for 2Gb, I'm guessing it's a bit of a waste of money to go over that then?

It use to be the case that you'd notice a nice performance gain if you went from 512 > 1Gb but I'm guessing the 2gb>4gb leap doesn't help much?

Would Vista take advantage of it (not that I'm planning of using Vista just yet).

 

[Murzo]

2gb is more than enough these days and its becoming pretty much standard to have 2gb of RAM in your system. 4GB is probably overkill for most things at the minute and you wont often see a huge performance increase in things such as games and some apps. So just go for 2gb in the new system you are building.