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Windows 7 performance with 1.5 GB of RAM?

Barfo

Barfo

Lifer
I'm building a computer for a low income family. They bought the Windows license and CPU and I'll donate the rest from spare parts I have lying around.

I have 3 512 MB sticks for the build but I'm not sure if that'll be enough for Windows 7, the computer will be used for basic tasks such as web browsing and text editing. I wouldn't want to tell them to buy another stick of RAM unless it's absolutely necessary.

Any insight?
 
The performance isn't great, but it'll be acceptable. I can get the same things done on my laptop with only 1.5GB.
 
Depending on your mother/chipset a 4th module can yield faster memory all together by switching the memory performance from Single to Dual channel.

Win 7 works very well with 1.5GB provided that there is No large application load and running at StartUP, and No serious multitasking.

At Start UP the core OS + few simple utilities running in the background take about 600MB leaving 900MB of free RAM.



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