Win xp 128Ram or 256Ram

[mikeshn]

I'm running WinXp pro on Pentium 3 733Mhz, 128Ram. For me at seems slowly. If I add 128Ram more, than it will more faster. Or I wouldn't see the effect.
Thanks

 

[ojai00]

You'll probably get faster load times. I think the minimum for XP should be 256, with the recommended being 512. Hope this helps.

 

[bacillus]

<< I think the minimum for XP should be 256, >>


MS says the minimum is 128Mb but for most folk 256Mb is what's needed for smooth running!

 

[bsobel]

I think you will definately see an improvement, XP on 128 is a bit painfull I try to make any new XP machines have 512, but as others said 256 should be a noticable step up.
Bill

 

[SaigonK]

Go for 512 it will make a BIG difference!
I had 256 and it still seemed to dog on me at times, bumped up to 512 and it ran much better, then i went back to Win2k =)

 

[BD231]

No less than 256, any less than that and your HDD will be working overtime.

 

[jpetermann]

I agree. Go with at least 256. 512 iseven better.

 

[WilsonTung]

Running XP on a 128 MB machine here, but I have all the theme services and all the other gizmos turned off.

 

[MoFunk]

My WinXP system is using 233 meg of ram right now! I have 2 mozilla windows open, outlook 2000, 2 word windows and seti cli with a few others background programs. You should really get 512. You will thank yourself for it!

 

[KouklatheCat]

I agree 256 for Windows XP. I just upgraded to 512 and it is even better then 256.

 

[Gomce]

if you have money go with 512,
I am happy with 256 mb, eye candy turned off because I like simplicity, and some services are off too, like indexing, wave device for modem, some printing help services, and the system restore is off too..etc etc.
now I have Winamp running and Opera 6.0 with around 40 windows open and only 125 mb are being used,
once I had 512 mb ram but to tell you the truth I didn't notice difference, in fact 3dmark 2k1 was slower, becase more sticks of ram means more latency.

So, I reccomend 256 mb, don't let these people's bragging get to you.

(p.s. when I tryed 3 x 256 mb of ram on my Ex-motherboard Abit Kt7Raid, the board died, maybe the memory controller or something so more doesn't always mean merrier)