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    Upgrade RAM for SZ: any increase performance in this case?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by biumoc, Apr 27, 2007.

  1. biumoc

    biumoc Notebook Consultant

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    Windows: XP, RAM: 1G
    Under very intensive uses, Task Manager reports the Physical Memory is about 850MB which means that 150 MB are available.

    So my question is if upgrade to 2 G RAM, is there any increase performance?
     
    biumoc, Apr 27, 2007
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    Yeah. You would notice things being a lot snappier.
     
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    Not an exact answer, but somewhat relevant...

    I have an SZ-110 running Vista Ultimate. This morning, I upgraded from 1 gig to 2 gig of RAM and the machine is MUCH faster.

    Right now, I have these apps running: Outlook 2007, PPT 2007, Windows Explorer, 3 instances of Visual Studio 2005, Firefox with 20 tabs open and I get instant response as I switch among them.
     
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    I saw 2Gb will definately help! I'm running on 2Gb on Vista - no slow down yet. But you're talking about XP so it'll be even better. But you'll also have to consider what speed of RAM you're getting, more doesn't always mean faster ;)
     
    sylonien, Apr 27, 2007
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    biumoc Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks for your suggestion, but I am running XP and the total RAM (850MB)used under max intentive case iis still less than total RAM (1G) (Not the Virtual Memory). Do I need to upgrae RAM??
     
    biumoc, Apr 28, 2007
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    You dont NEED to do it, its just that you will notice an improvement if you do.

    S.
     
    seanpburke, Apr 28, 2007
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