A good and simple way to check if you actually need an upgrade in RAM is to check the performance tab on your task manager while doing normal usage and then again under heavy usage. If your commit charge is higher than the amount of physical RAM (not virtual!) you have then you should upgrade. This would mean your system is running off of your hard disks page file, which greatly reduces performance. More so if you start up your computer and this commit charge is higher than the amount of physical RAM you either have too many things on your start up or your in dire need of an upgrade. Hope this helps.
 

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From: Russ Cox <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 8:50:28 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] How much RAM is enough?

I have a NEC Versa laptop, 1.8 GHz Pentium M with 768 MB RAM running Vista basic. Seems to run a bit slow. I know more memory is good, but am I likely to see a noticeable improvement if I move up to 1.5 GB RAM?

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