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How much RAM for XP ?
Name: Harry Who Date: April 22, 2002 at 05:01:47 Pacific
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I'm currently using 128meg ram 850 Duron 40gig 7200 hd with XP. All goes reasonably well untill a program like Kazaa is running in the background, then it runs like a hairy goat. So what is the amount of RAM you use and with what results ? All answers appreciated.
i find that 256-512 meg of ram is sufficient in todays computing world. the ddr ram is especially fast if one's motherboard uses that kind.
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Response Number 2
Name: Ladybug Date: April 22, 2002 at 06:35:56 Pacific
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I believe there is an update available that has a fix for programs, including Kaaza...?
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Response Number 3
Name: J@MIE Date: April 22, 2002 at 07:02:24 Pacific
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it all depends on what you are using your computer for. If you are just running regular programs and are just an average user i would suggest 256mb i wouldn't recommend lower. But if you are into graphic arts and design and stuff you would need higher like 512mb or more. i use 512mb myself and i think that if you can spend the money upgrade to 512 or else at least upgrade to 256mb, especially if you are runnig XP.
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Response Number 4
Name: DblFun Date: April 22, 2002 at 07:33:42 Pacific
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You really DON'T need to buy more RAM. I've got an AMD K6 400mhz with 128 RAM and 8 gigs HD. Windows XP is running just fine, also when I'm using Kazaa. I think there's another program conflicting with kazaa. I don't think it's you're system
So try closing down other programs and than start kazaa...
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Response Number 5
Name: jack Date: April 22, 2002 at 13:09:23 Pacific
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you will need 1gb or more to run XP.
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Response Number 6
Name: matthew Date: April 22, 2002 at 13:26:12 Pacific
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jack what are you talking about you dont need 1 gigabyte you can run it fine on 128, but i reccomend 256 or more or 512 if you do graphic artistry. Kazaa will make one run like a hairy goat. Because when you have a lot of donwloads on your list that list for some reason hogs the cpu. i have a 950 and 256 megs and even if i have a lot of kazaa downloads mine slows down. check out kazaa lite it a a leaner but fully operable version of kazaa but without spyware. http://www.kazaalite.com/lite/ if you run adaware it might say it has spyware but it dont the dll has to be there but the one there is just a dummy dll to fool it so it will run.
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Response Number 7
Name: Ken Date: April 22, 2002 at 13:43:49 Pacific
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If you can afford 512 then go with it, you won't be sorry. I would not go below 256.
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Response Number 8
Name: Harry Who Date: April 22, 2002 at 15:50:27 Pacific
Summary: How much RAM you are using is not a good way of determing if you need more. Depending on what you are doing, Windows can use everything thats available, regardless of how much you have. Performance ...
Summary: I am currently running 512 memory for XP. I use this system for games mostly and I want to know what is the best amount of memory to have. I always heard 512 was almost a must for XP to run smoothly...
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