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Is 1GB of RAM enough to run Vista Home Premium?

Jul 31, 2007 3:41PM PDT

I just bought a desktop with Windows Vista Home Premium, is 1 GB enough to satisft the needs of the operating system?

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No
Jul 31, 2007 8:44PM PDT

I bought a notebook with only 1 GB, upgraded to 2 GB and the performance improved significantly. Memory's cheap and easy to install.

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(NT) Agree! Mine cheap... upgraded to 3GB :)
Jul 31, 2007 11:42PM PDT
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Barely.
Jul 31, 2007 11:26PM PDT

It does run on our new 1GB laptop but since there are no games on it I think it will stay at 1GB until someday.

Yes, it runs.

Bob

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I agree...
Aug 1, 2007 1:39AM PDT

1GB is entirely doable, but it's very ease to push it to the limits if you multitask or play games, particularly if you rely on shared memory for your graphics card. That's why 2GB is recommended by most users, even though you can get by with 1GB.

Hope this helps,
John

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yes, to some extent
Aug 1, 2007 7:38AM PDT

windows vista home premium will run on 1gb mem, but that's only the minimum microsoft says you need. so more ram = more power!

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Just be aware
Aug 1, 2007 4:02PM PDT

Vista memory management is different than XP. See this:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/graphicsmemory.mspx

I will give you an example(in my case) I have 3GB system ram
total graphics memory: 1022mb
dedicated graphics memory: 256mb (8600GT)
shared system memory: 766mb
Nvidia Vista 32bit driver 158.24 WHQL

New WHQL driver 162.22 (7/26/07)
total graphics memory: 1535mb
dedicated graphics memory: 256mb
shared system memory: 1279mb

This is Microsoft, not Nvidia

New Nvidia XP 32bit driver 162.18 WHQL (7/26/07) in the release notes it states that performance can be affected with systems having less than 1.5GB of ram.
FYI for all