RAM and Vista

[Dwain Patterson II]

How much RAM does it take to run Vista at a nice pace? I have 2 G RAM in my
main PC, and my other pc i have 1G and a 512 stick and sometimes i feel the
smaller one does better running problems sometimes.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

How much RAM does it take to run Vista at a nice pace?

The amount depends on what applications you run. For the average
person, 2GB is a good amount.

 

[Stevey]

I started with 1GB but recently upgraded to 2GB and things are happier
now. My sense is that 2GB is OK for most home users.

 

[Not Even Me]

It depends on how you use the machine.
For some users 2GB is enough, many require 3-4GB to achieve their best
performance.
In Vista, I turn off all the eye candy, indexing, etc. to improve
performance.
My systems that dual boot XP/Vista run XP noticable faster on the same
hardware.
I have not put Vista on anything less than a P4-2.8Ghz/2GB/256MB AGP/250GB
EIDE.
XP runs faster on that by about 25%.
On the Q6600/4GB/512MB DDR3 PCIe/2x500GB SATA, XP runs so fast, I have a
hard time keeping up...
Vista jogs on that one..
Just for comparison, I popped an extra HDD into my dual XEON
2.66Ghz/2GB/2x100GB SCSI and installed Ultimate.
Even with 2 separate CPUs and 10K RPM drives, XP sprinted, Vista trotted.