Wanted to see what others thought about this.

2Gb of fast ddr2 memory (1200) with vista 32, or 4Gb of ddr2 memory (800, maybe 1066) with vista 64.

What would the pros and cons be? Wonder what the comparison in EU memory bench would be between the two?

Not looking to win any benching awards here, just all around great/fast performance.


Thanks

Are you talking 2x2gig sticks or do you want to populate all 4 DIMM slots... I'd stick with 2gig but thats just my opinion... Some games will probably start to utilize 4gig soon if not already.

Much of a muchness I think..

Assuming you'd be running the RAM at as close to it's highest speed as you could, the 1200Mhz 2GB would give a fair amount better performance in memory intensive apps than slower RAM. An exception would be an app that needs a huge amount of running space - more than the 2GB could provide without your having to hit the swap file on the HD drive. That would be one heck of an app. Are there really games that require that much running space? Even in this case, no hard drive swap file hits vs. slower RAM performance wouldn't be a sure win for 4GB.

From what I've been reading, 2-2Gb sticks seems better than 4-1Gb sticks.

Just curious to see if having 4Gb of memory with Vista64 performs better/faster than with 2Gb.

On one hand you have faster speeds with 2Gb, on the other hand you have twice the amount of memory with 4Gb.

Anyone out there using 4Gb along with Vista?

The VISTA 32 footprint is almost 1GB, that's why 2GB is recommended, so there's room in the RAM to run your apps. (The XP footprint is only about 300-400KB.) I wouldn't think the VISTA 64 footprint would be any bigger.

I think what you need to know is how much RAM a RAM-hungry game uses. It's it's up in the 1GB range, then 2GB with VISTA wouldn't be enough to run both the game and VISTA smoothly - without hitting the swap file on the HDD.

Even with just 2 gig (1gigx2) you could just turn off some UNNECESSARY services in windows be it Vista or XP.. May give you a boost mate..

Just don't mix 4GB with Vista 32 and you'll be alright. A 32-bit OS provides for 2^32 memory addresses, which is just barely over 4 GB. When you subtract a pair of 512 mb video cards and some miscellaneous other devices from that 4 Gigs, that is the reason you don't get the full benefit of much more than 2 GB on a 32-bit system.