Make the move to 512MB????

[WarMechTU]

I am running Windows 2000 Professional and I am thinking about making the move from 256 to 512 of RAM... do you think its worth it? Has anyone had any experience using Photoshop with 512MB of ram? does it help any? THanks!

 

[Noriaki]

512MB of RAM is definately good, Win2k and Photoshop both love as much RAM as you can throw at them.

 

[Raincity]

I saw I nice boost in performance from 256 to 512 in Photoshop. All the other programs ran the same to me.

Rain

 

[Oyeve]

Definately. I pesonally use 1 gig of ram. I run this program called VMware, it lets me virtually run any os without actually of any partition, just install whatever os you want in vmware and run that os in a virtual window. Very cool. Each VM os requires a min of 128 megs.

 

[BChico]

I use photoshop, dreamweaver, and 3dstudiomax, and the jump from 256 to 512 on win 2k was greatly felt, i definately recommend it, infact i just ordered another 256 stick from crucial for 108 i think.

 

[GoldenTiger]

Definitely move up 🙂.

 

[GT1999]

I've got 512 and I love it 😀 RAM prices are dirt cheap, might as well upgrade 🙂

 

[RiceDiGiZ]

the more the merrilier

 

[Davegod75]

i made the move. I'm happy 🙂

 

[sohcrates]

after i upgraded to 512 mb, i was scanning something at 1200 dpi and looked at photoshop 6's resources...it was using over 2/3 of my RAM in addition to my entire allotted 2 gig photoshop "swap" hard drive space. that program eats resources for lunch. it's the ONLY real reason i can justify for upgrading my ram! (actually, i only did it cause it's so cheap!)