1024MB is recommenced, but Vista works fine with 256MB - but aero should have 512 MB at least^^!

Several people have told me that 1024 was the minimum. I didn't much care at first as I have that much and wasn't expecting to be running it on this system anyway. But now that I do have it running and it runs wonderfully with said amount (in fact taking up under half of that, right now it's idling at 375), I've gotten bitchy when people mope and whine about it REQUIRING 1024. So I've set off to prove them wrong.

rrrright ^^

It doesn't require it, but it's recommended by me to run 1 GB. :P

But, then again, I bitch about computers running less than 2 GB of RAM ^^;

Well I talked to two people today who thought it required 1 GB, and nobody disputed that >.> I never looked into it before.

It's interesting to note that when I took out a RAM stick it booted up in... whatever the step below Aero is. Looked decent but I want to see if you can get the full effect with just 512. From what I've seen so far it's totally doable :3

And oh ya. My normal score is 4.2 (my CPU being the limiting factor, RAM is usually a 4.9!) but getting half the RAM bandwidth from having it be single channel really eats up those points :<

It's not requiered, but look at your enjoyment indeX! :O you fail at 2.9/5.9!

With an extra 512 it bumps me up to 4.2 >.> And given that this computer is so getting replaced in 11 months and 5 days, I don't feel so bad about it~ I'd be up to a 4.9 if it weren't for this slow CPU <.<

What...I wasn't whining and bitching ;-;

O_O Now i'm suprised... i was at IT-school and it recommened me 1 GB it didn't made me installint it with 512 GB D= Now i hate my PC.....

Check it on Wikipedia or any other place if you don't believe me. "Vista Premium Ready" wants 1 GB, but "Vista Capable" is just 512. In my case I will say that I installed it on 1024 and pulled out half of it afterward, if that's important at all.

Now I'm not saying you'll WANT to run it on a system with 512 or 1024 MB, just that you CAN, and that the OS itself doesn't require a gig of RAM just to run. If you've used it on a 2 GB system I can see where the confusion might occur; Vista tends to 'use' half of the RAM on any system it's installed on, be it 1 GB or 8. But all except for a few hundred MB of that is just pre-cached stuff and can be dumped at any time if the space is actually needed.

Oh i believe you n_n i just think, that the Vista version we used was crap then... D=

And thanks again for proofing me wrong. n_n *hugs tight* I owe you something, for it.

^^' Think nothing of it

Oh i do O.O; Since i'm grabbing on a job in this direction, i have to know those facts. D= It's important! Thanks for showing me! n.n

I'm realy screwed about why this didn't worked then. D=

But thanks for proofing me wrong n.n *hugs tight* Now i know.

good old vista :p