ya showing off could be the point for buying 4GB of ram.... like if u got quad SLI u can also brag like say u go ask your friend his/her pc how much ram if they only got 1GB then u can laugh and say my gc has twice your ram

i'd rather spend the money on bigger lcd.

What's the good of showing off anyway? PC is personal computer.. its for the specific person personal use only and that particular person have to right to buy whatever specs he think suite his or her own needs based on the usage. Not every PC user is a gamer... Some of us just use the PC to do some accounting, some Word/Excel documents or just some plain web surfing.. So respect others..

Anyway.. 2GB of RAM is the most optimized option.. 4GB currently will not boost your Windows XP .. unless you're planning for Windows Vista soon.. that is..

windows xp cant support 4gb ram iirc only 3 gb will be used up

well.. thats what ppl always say lasttime..

8MB is good enough, then 64 then 126, then 512, then 1GB... then now 2GB....

i won be suprise ppl will be running 4GB as norm in the near future

erk jinaun..its 128mb not 126 lol..

yeah,i wont b surprised too..but hey,in this modern world,there are still plenty of windows98 users

4GB RAM, tat is too much.... cost 1.4K... walao... Xtreme user... Apple G5 use 4GB i din feel anything, at least they use it for multimedia, editing... If u wan to play games n use for Windows Vista, better invest on graphics card, coz Vista feed alot of memory from GPU...

This post has been edited by -=J4cKa5s=-: May 27 2006, 09:45 AM

how good is the preformance for 4gb to 2gb? i think 2gc is more then enough for a normal pc user. whereas 4Gb will give u extra 101% smotther application in nonosecond??

4gb to 2gb wont feel the difference somemore in benchmark it loses out abit

windows XP prior to SP2 can see all 4GB ram

Well, if you compare purely in terms of numerical value, yes, Vista does require quite a bit of RAM. IE 7+, 6 tabs, sidebar on Vista Beta 2 (untweaked) eats up 748Mb of RAM.
2 Gb will be the norm soon, and prices will soon reflect that. It's all a sign of the times (moving ahead) really.

oic thx for enlightening me on that

the prices will drop....dell has stated they will ship standard desktops wit 2gb ram once vista is out...so by comparison 2gb ram will be the same price as the current 1gb ram when vista is sort of out in the market...vista is a biach OS ,which is memory hungry

Some might label me a conspiracy theorist, but I have a dman strong feeling that software companies are purposely setting the requirements damn high, just so the hardware manufacturers can make profit. Hell, they probably don't even optimize their software for minimal hardware requirements.

well.. if its true.. it started from earlier MSDOS version when there is no HDD and more than 640KB memory req..

hey.. even the big man himself (bill gates) says that 640KB is all we need for teh future@

I think the biggest question is still, DO WE NEED VISTA ANYWAY?

If you want more functionality out of your programs, the program sizes will grow.
Amdahl's lesser known law: memory size has to grow linearly with the increase in CPU speed.
No point having all that processing power if you run out of things to work on.


depends. it has some nice improvements at the core level but also a lot of unnecessary frills which i'm hoping can be switched off.

Fine, whatever. Then don't use the extra functionality. Who wants to fork out 2gb more memory for an OS that sports a shinier GUI? Ok, given, there are good things too, like maybe DX 10 or so, but still....4gb is a tick too much, I find.

well the nice part about computers is the prices for the mainstream always go down.

Just be patient and wait. What's for sure is the price of RAM will definitely drop - I say it. As for the market now 2gb is way than enough. I asked my friend, he's a salesman in Lowyat and he told me there isn't any customer that buy more than 2gb RAM until today.

And about Vista, no doubt that is it very "consuming" in every factor, to Vista or not to Vista? That is the question.

Ps. Maybe using Window XP but put Vista shell? lol