Quick Question Ram/Vista

[Seedler]

I just received a Lenovo X61 tablet pc

Specs as follow:

T7700 core2 1.8ghz
1.5gb ram
120GB HD

The thing is, originally this tablet came with 1GB of RAM, however someone added a 512mb stick afterward to bring the RAM total to 1.5 GB.

I'm debating whether to remove the 512mb stick and add a 1GB or 2GB stick because I'm using vista?

For now, I did a clean install and vista seems to run fine on 1.5GB, however I keep on hearing you should have at least 2GB for vista? Or is 1.5GB enough for some time? What are your thoughts?

[apextwin146]

It depends on the type of the applications u will working on ... are they memory intensive or cpu intensive ones ....
2 gb in all is a gud setup .. Add one for 1 gb stick for now as i have seen vista take upto .75gb memory ..

[Acid_death69]

I tired to run vista on 1GB of memory and it was so anoying cos i would get halfway through programmes and then it would crash cos it ran outta space. 512 might make a lil bit of difference but i would suggest to get another gig or even 2GB of space. It cant hurt and it will only make things easier on you in the future.

[clocker]

Your machine will support up to 4GB of RAM.
I consider 2GB to be the minimum acceptable for Vista and 4GB to be the sweet spot.

[apextwin146]

^ dsnt 4gb ram work only on 64 bit vista?

[clocker]

^ dsnt 4gb ram work only on 64 bit vista?
Is there any other version?

But yes, you are correct...32bit will only recognize @ 3.25GB.

[kaiweiler]

There is a good chance that the original owner who added the 512mb stick of ram has also decreased performance by eliminating dual channel. Dual channel will not work with an odd number of modules.
Try and have an even amount of sticks of matching size and speed, with dual channel enabled for optimal performance.

[Something Else]

The more ram you put in a vista machine, the longer it will take to start up. True story.

[pifpaf]

Your machine will support up to 4GB of RAM.
I consider 2GB to be the minimum acceptable for Vista and 4GB to be the sweet spot.

i agree. i tried vista with 1gb and then 2gb, and i noticed a considerable difference.

[clocker]

The more ram you put in a vista machine, the longer it will take to start up. True story.
Really?
My current rig has run 2,4,6 and 8GB of memory and boot times seemed pretty consistent to me.
The only thing that made much of a difference was whether I RAIDed the hard drives...it takes the on board controller a while to sort out the array.

[apextwin146]

^ dsnt 4gb ram work only on 64 bit vista?
Is there any other version?

But yes, you are correct...32bit will only recognize @ 3.25GB.
Isnt the Home premium n all 32 bit :mellow:
U will need to confirm the version of vista before advsising on how much additional ram can be added ..


The more ram you put in a vista machine, the longer it will take to start up. True story.
The more the Ram the faster u can go in/out of hibernation

[Something Else]

Yes, really. It's to do with Vista pre-caching, which can be turmned off.
e.g. If you have 2gb of ram, it will take (example) 4 mins to start up and finish caching your big apps in to the ram, then, loading for example photoshop might take 18 seconds.
If you turn the ram caching off, vista will take 2 mins to start, but loading photoshop might take a minute by itself. It's a new feature implemented with vista. The more ram, the slower the start up, but the quicker the application launch.

[apextwin146]

how does it decide which apps to cache?
If the option is turned off then loads times vary?

[Something Else]

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000688.html

[Seedler]

The vista version I have is Vista Business, is that 32bit or 64?:O

And thanks for the replies, I will remove the 512stick and add a 2gig one. And just out of curiosity, are there 3gig sticks so I can have a total of four e-peens?

[Detale]

Right click on My computer and go to properties, if will say it there. I don't know of any 3 gig sticks but they have some very reasonable 2X2 4 gig sets available on Newegg. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010260381+1309121118&name=4GB+%282+x+2GB%29&Order=PRICE) 4 gigs are better than 3 :P


^ dsnt 4gb ram work only on 64 bit vista?
Is there any other version?

But yes, you are correct...32bit will only recognize @ 3.25GB.

Never thought I would see the day my friend but I have to disagree with you here. I have Vista Ultimate 32 installed ATM and It's recognizing a cool 6 gig's of ram. 3-2 gig sticks of G-Skill 1000 :) I believe the over 2 gig thing is only on XP

I know I know "screens or it didn't happen"


http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5436/vista326gigef8.jpg

On a side note. I noticed the ImageShack toolbar I love will not work with the new FF3 dammit!

Also something fishy must have happened my CPU is running @ Stock speed not down from 3.2 !? Maybe a restart?? I need to look into it.

EDIT: I just realized I added 2 new 750 gig HDD's and flashed a new Bios so I have to redo my setting and take the "Vista Challenge" again Does anyone ever get a 6.0??

[clocker]

5.9 is currently the highest possible score.
MS says it will adjust the rating system as hardware advances.

BTW...you are being tricked re: the RAM.
Recognizing the amount of installed RAM and being able to use it are two different things.
AFAIK, a 32 bit system is simply not capable of addressing that much memory...see here (http://www.dansdata.com/askdan00015.htm) or here. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx#physical_memory_limits_windows_vista)

[Detale]

Ah I see you are right as usual you damn supernerd!! Everest and other programs all say 3581 MB so I guess it's a waste to even have the 3rd stick in there huh?

[TheSickEmpire]

Ah I see you are right as usual you damn supernerd!! Everest and other programs all say 3581 MB so I guess it's a waste to even have the 3rd stick in there huh?

I believe that third stick also kills Dual Channel mode. I know back when I played WoW I had 2GB of memory (2x 512MB 1x 1GB) I removed the 1GB stick and replaced it with 2x 512MB sticks and more than doubled my FPS..

Never thought it could have been my ram until I could actually play the game lag free :P

[Detale]

Hmmmmm something to look into