8ball Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 HI all,I have had windows XP for about a year, a it seems to be running rather slow, i have 224mb of ram, do u think this is enough or would u recommend i have more???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 I recommend having AT LEAST 512megs...MUCH better performance... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerties Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 I recommend having AT LEAST 512megs...MUCH better performance...highly agree with gamehead200 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThA_FiLeR Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 either that or install some orther OS like Win2k or Win2k3 although those are more for servers but will do allot of things, just not gaming and things that ask allot from vid-card.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zivan56 Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 Whats your processor speed? I have a AMD k6-2 450Mhz with 512mb ram and it runs XP pretty slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewdatrip Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 256 will work..i have seen it run on less. But keep the system clean, any apps or games you dont use, u must remove. Keep the Intenet cach to a min as well as run frequent defrags.=Drew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipp51 Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 I just tried upgrading a HP Pavillion 8655C that was running win 98se to win xp home.The customer was having trouble with the system locking up while using his broadband connection.The system;533mhz p3,integrated shared video,some cheap sound card,64mb pc 100,no agp slot,updated bios.I installed 256mb pc 133 and installed xp.System ran ok but had to turn off most visual enhancements.Then hooked it up to the broadband and poof video hardware lockup.Built him a newer system with 256mmb pc 133 with a compatible agp graphics card,latest motherboard and happy happy customer no more lockups.Runs very zippy.All components have signed drivers.My point is that this being one example of this type of upgrade,, hardware incompatibility can account for poor perfomance on any system.Even not matching ram to motherboard in higher end machines will result in this.Zivans 450 with all the ram in the world won't improve xp's "giddyup and go". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispy Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 I would recommend:256MB for office use - Word, Excel, powerpoint etc.512MB for gaming use and "light" CAD - UT2003, Photoshop etc.1024MB+ would then be for server and workstations.I have 512MB myself and my comp handels anything I throw at it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doggie Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 i agree with ya crispy.. i have 256mb but i need more as i am more of a gamer and games like unreal 2 can be jerky sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8ball Posted May 31, 2003 Author Share Posted May 31, 2003 thanks for the advice everyone, i have be recommended to buy more ram from ebuyer.co.uk is this the best site, and should i be buying DD ram or Ad ram???sorry about all the stuppid questions but i cant afford to rec my computer.How can i find out the processsor speed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8ball Posted May 31, 2003 Author Share Posted May 31, 2003 by the way how can i find out my processor speed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispy Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 by the way how can i find out my processor speedYou can find it by right-clicking on "my computer" and selecting propeties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThA_FiLeR Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 thanks for the advice everyone, i have be recommended to buy more ram from ebuyer.co.uk is this the best site, and should i be buying DD ram or Ad ram???sorry about all the stuppid questions but i cant afford to rec my computer.How can i find out the processsor speed? Check out what kind of RAM you have right now, if you buy fasterm they will both run at the speed of the slowest speed, and you cant mix dram, sdram or anything like that, even better would be the same brand since some mixes can cause conflicts.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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