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    Noobie RAM help needed!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by dhunziker, Aug 30, 2006.

  1. dhunziker

    dhunziker Newbie

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    Hello,

    Due to some notebookreview.com opinions i got myself a delle1405. Everything went well when i got it, did a reformat via dell cd etc, and installed all my drivers and what not - but for some reason I am hard pressed to see why exactly my freshly formatted system is using all the resources it currently is. After a fresh reboot with nothing running but what pops up after I boot into windows, I have about 43 processes running and 340 - 350ish mb of ram used. Is this normal? My desktop PC only uses like 230mb of ram after a reboot and only has about 18 processes running.... Any advice? I don't have a lot of ram in this baby yet (waiting for ram prices to drop a little before i get a gig stick) and its crazy that I am using up more ram just to make things click than some people have in their entire systems....
     
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  2. Juz_Follow_ATI

    Juz_Follow_ATI ATI all the way

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    Yes, before my laptop was using 400MB. Now it only uses 305MB. Before it used so much resources because I had CCC on it. It still has a lot of RAM eaten due to my Norton. If you're still not happy, you can always compensate to 2GB of RAM, like I am this weekend.

    Daniel
     
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    thetick97 Notebook Consultant

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  4. Iceman0124

    Iceman0124 More news from nowhere

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    windows is a memory hog, and your onboard video is going to take out a chunk, open task manager and see whats running in the background, for xp to run well, you really do need 1 gig of ram, 2 is better, but 1 is pretty much standard these days, another option would be to use win98, it uses far less resources, and should work just fine for word processing and web browsing
     
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