You must have done something wrong. You didn't try to play games on it, did you? Because that ain't gonna work on 1GB no matter what your OS is.DUnlimited wrote:
I have used Win7 with 1GB of ram and it was pain in the ass.
This is truth. We are testing our windows 7 image of 7 enterprise on some SHITTY gateways. Im talking P4 1Gram if we're lucky. Most of em we are getting in we bump up to two gig before re-deployment. Anyways, it runs fine on 1GB, and the AMD64 3500+ is no slouch (for its time), its not like he will be gaming on this thing.Freezer7Pro wrote:
Windows 7 runs just fine on 1GB. I'm sitting at a can that's running 7 on 1GB right now. If he's made it with 1GB on XP, he'll make it even better on 7, as it's far superior at handing RAM.
This is on Win 7. One game, BC2 this time, running + FF and couple tabs.Freezer7Pro wrote:
You must have done something wrong. You didn't try to play games on it, did you? Because that ain't gonna work on 1GB no matter what your OS is.DUnlimited wrote:
I have used Win7 with 1GB of ram and it was pain in the ass.
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staged, you aren't supposed to be watching HD video while doing PS.
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Heater in the corner behind the door?
Hey, that's only 720p, I could have put a BR encode of Iron Man on.GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
staged, you aren't supposed to be watching HD video while doing PS.
What's that supposed to demonstrate? Windows uses unused RAM for caching, if the point you're making is that you're using more than a gigabyte.GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
This is on Win 7. One game, BC2 this time, running + FF and couple tabs.Freezer7Pro wrote:
You must have done something wrong. You didn't try to play games on it, did you? Because that ain't gonna work on 1GB no matter what your OS is.DUnlimited wrote:
I have used Win7 with 1GB of ram and it was pain in the ass.
http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/6946/ramusage7.jpg
FF + couple tabs + steam etc. but idle
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9897/ramusage7idle.jpg
tazz. wrote:
freezer isnt running aero
/thread.
Windows 7 uses otherwise unused RAM for caching stuff. It puts stuff that you "might need" (like if you open an exe file, it stores the exe in RAM even after you've closed the application). That means that the more RAM you have, the more RAM it will use. If you have less RAM, it won't cache as much, and it will behave much like older operating systems like Windows XP.Jaekus wrote:
Wait, you're running Win7 with on Aero and only using 700MB of RAM?
I'm idle and only running Chrome as an application (not too many processes either) and I'm sitting at 1.29GB
My flatemate had 1GB of RAM installed and it ran slow as.
How does it work?
Oh please go ahead and try how "small" improvement there is moving from 1GB to 2GB on 7.Freezer7Pro wrote:
What's that supposed to demonstrate? Windows uses unused RAM for caching, if the point you're making is that you're using more than a gigabyte.
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As has been said already, yes it does.DUnlimited wrote:
Win7 does not really effectively work with 1GB of ram
Really, if you aren't gaming or doing anything otherwise resource-heavy on the computer, there's honestly not a lot of difference. I should know, I just changed my "office computer" from one with a somewhat slow processor and 2.5GB RAM to one with a faster processor and 1GB RAM. They both use the same model hard drive, and that's about the only thing that's really affecting the performance; they both boot about as quickly, and using the new one is nothing but a nicer experience due to the faster processor. Not once have I had any slow-downs related to the 1.5GB RAM that's been lost in the move.GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
Oh please go ahead and try how "small" improvement there is moving from 1GB to 2GB on 7.Freezer7Pro wrote:
What's that supposed to demonstrate? Windows uses unused RAM for caching, if the point you're making is that you're using more than a gigabyte.
If you don't use more than 600MB, you wouldn't see slightest difference moving from 600MB to 12GB... Its not like Windows caches shit for fun.
Whole point of ram is having data on faster than HDD cache.
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If his computer's managed them before, they'll run just fine on 7 too.GR34 wrote:
He wont be doing much gaming just playing CSS cod 2 and such. I just have a copy of W7 that Iam not using from an OEM 3 pack
