Guest ElAguila Posted February 13, 2008 Posted February 13, 2008 Part of whether or not it helps depends on what you use your machine for. If you do a lot of video/audio encoding/editing it should help you out. I did notice an improvement when I went from 2GB to 4GB. I have been thinking about going to 8GB. The program I use to edit my movie audio files will allow me to select my ram for storing the temporary file that it creates. Since the movie audio files can be large, 8GB would work much better. If you are gaming I don't think there would be much of an improvement. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
douirc Posted February 16, 2008 Posted February 16, 2008 hahaha! I guess i'm not the only one! http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/15/vista_workshop/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ElAguila Posted February 16, 2008 Posted February 16, 2008 That article mentioned some adjustments that could be made so that the 32bit apps could see up to 4gb of ram. Does anyone know that these adjustments are? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praz Posted February 16, 2008 Posted February 16, 2008 If you want to see the full 4GB install SP1. Microsoft redid it so that the correct amount of memory installed is displayed instead of what is actually available for use. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
uneedav8 Posted February 18, 2008 Posted February 18, 2008 That article mentioned some adjustments that could be made so that the 32bit apps could see up to 4gb of ram. Does anyone know that these adjustments are? It's probably is referring to the PAE or the 3GIG switch on the boot.ini Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oceanborn Posted February 26, 2008 Posted February 26, 2008 I started with 2x1gb and vista x64 idled at 700MB. i moved to 2x2gb and it idled around 900mb. i finally upgraded to 4x2gb and it now idles around 1.3gb. basically what i'm getting at is vista uses a fixed % of ram to store things you access regularly. so, the more the memory the faster vista runs. one word for you...superfetch Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Retratserif Posted February 27, 2008 Posted February 27, 2008 superfetch can be activated in XP pro. But only really helps with XP 64 with 4 or gb of ram. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted February 27, 2008 Posted February 27, 2008 superfetch can be activated in XP pro. But only really helps with XP 64 with 4 or gb of ram. Really? Is it built-in or is there a patch to be downloaded? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
uneedav8 Posted February 27, 2008 Posted February 27, 2008 Really? Is it built-in or is there a patch to be downloaded? http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-repli...cfm/372452.html http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000863.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted February 27, 2008 Posted February 27, 2008 Seems like BS to me, but thanks for the links. :angel: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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