Hi,

I installed Vista after my XP became corrupt (long story...).

Have noticed that it's using 510-560 MB RAM at idle! I have a total of
1024 RAM. If I get a 4GB ready boost compatible USB/flash card will it
make a difference or is it a waste of money and only to be used if Vista
is chewing up more than 1024 MB?

Thanks.


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tigertim71

I would suggest you to upgrade your memory from 1GB to at least 2GB
rather than buying a 4GB USB/Flash card. I tried Readyboost with my
spare 1GB USB stick and noticed a slight performance increase but when I
upgraded my memory the laptop performs well above my expectation.


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brummyfan

Hi- Unfortunately, the RAM on my pc is limited to 1GB, so I would have
to know if ready boost is worth it....


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tigertim71

Hi,
Dont bother with ready boost, your 1Gb ram is inadequate for Vista.
Double it to 2Gb that is a minimum you should aim at.
If you want above 4Gb however, you will need a 64bit o/s.
Regards,
Graham...



"tigertim71" wrote in message
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Hi,

I installed Vista after my XP became corrupt (long story...).

Have noticed that it's using 510-560 MB RAM at idle! I have a total of
1024 RAM. If I get a 4GB ready boost compatible USB/flash card will it
make a difference or is it a waste of money and only to be used if Vista
is chewing up more than 1024 MB?

Thanks.


--
tigertim71

In message
tigertim71 was claimed to have wrote:

Hi- Unfortunately, the RAM on my pc is limited to 1GB, so I would have
to know if ready boost is worth it....

Limited to 1GB? That sounds unfortunate.

The short answer is that with only 1GB of RAM, you'll probably see a
difference from ReadyBoost, although it won't be anywhere near as
significant as a bit of extra RAM.

tigertim71;994904 Wrote:
Hi,

I installed Vista after my XP became corrupt (long story...).

Have noticed that it's using 510-560 MB RAM at idle! I have a total of
1024 RAM. If I get a 4GB ready boost compatible USB/flash card will it
make a difference or is it a waste of money and only to be used if Vista
is chewing up more than 1024 MB?

Thanks.

If your ram is limited to 1 GB see if you can put W7 beta on. I have
Pentium 4 with 1 GB ram and W7 beta ran quite well on it(no Aero just
basic theme but it was plenty snappy.) If you can then at least you can
use the machine until the beta deadline. Then buy something with more
capacity.


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MilesAhead

"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
- Groucho Marx

Is the 1gb limit due to your BIOS? what is the make/model of the pc/lpt a
bios upgrade may solve this issue, most bios upgrade can be done with a GUI
installer so its not hard to do.

you can use ready boost it will help a bit but wont be like having a memory
upgrade, but vista will work fine, just turn off the the extra's for best
performance, the Windows7 beta will (as far as i know) lockout after Aug1st
so as great as win7 is best to stick with vista on your current setup, make
sure if you go for ready boost the specs of the usb flash drive are met, i.e
USB 2 (does your mainboard support this) The device must be capable of 2.5
MB/s read speeds for 4 KB random reads spread uniformly across the entire
device and 1.75 MB/s write speeds for 512 KB random writes spread uniformly
across the device.


go for a 2gb memory stick or 4gb (only 3gb will be recomended by MS) and see
how it goes, its worth the small cost involved,


let us know how it goes.



"MilesAhead" wrote in message
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tigertim71;994904 Wrote:
Hi,

I installed Vista after my XP became corrupt (long story...).

Have noticed that it's using 510-560 MB RAM at idle! I have a total of
1024 RAM. If I get a 4GB ready boost compatible USB/flash card will it
make a difference or is it a waste of money and only to be used if Vista
is chewing up more than 1024 MB?

Thanks.

If your ram is limited to 1 GB see if you can put W7 beta on. I have
Pentium 4 with 1 GB ram and W7 beta ran quite well on it(no Aero just
basic theme but it was plenty snappy.) If you can then at least you can
use the machine until the beta deadline. Then buy something with more
capacity.


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MilesAhead

"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
- Groucho Marx