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    Is 2 gigs of ram good enough for vista + some gaming?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Elijah Flowers, Mar 31, 2008.

  1. Elijah Flowers

    Elijah Flowers Notebook Consultant

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    I just wanted to know if 2 gigs of ram ddr2 667 is good enough for vista home premium and some gaming. I play CSS, Warcraft III, CoD:4, and of course starcraft 2 when it comes out. How big of a performance increase is it from one gig to two? and two to three? Four is pretty much out of the question for me right now, not gonna be buying a new copy of vista. Thanks.
     
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  2. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    sure

    quite a bit

    better - but if u have a dedicated gpu, then not much over the 2gigo

    dual booting with linux can be an alternative :D

    cheers ...
     
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  3. Elijah Flowers

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    Thanks much, yeah my laptop is going to have a raedon hd 2600 512mb dedicated ddr2 version gpu... so it will probably be all good, thanks.
     
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    Vista can suck quite a bit of resources.
    If you are going to be using P2P be prepared to get more or use the SD card as extra memory.
     
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    Luckily for the OP you can get 4 gigs of ram and you don't have to pay for a new version of Vista.

    I have 4 gigs, but that's just because I can.
     
    onlycopunk, Mar 31, 2008
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