Is 2GB of RAM and PCIe really necessary for Vista?


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Does upgrading your PC to what? 2GB ram and having to have PCI express and the slew of other crap worth the upgrade?

I'd just buy a proprietary system with Vista on it already to get around all this crap

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Given what speeds we see in unoptimized beta 2 preview builds, I can't see Vista requiring PCI Express and 2 GB RAM to be enjoyable to use. Unless they cram in TONS of bloat at the time of beta 2 and onwards, and that would be truly disappointing.

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Depends, if you don't mind Vista looking like Windows 2000 then no you don't need 2Gb RAM and a PCI-e graphics card to run it..but if you want Vista in all it's glory (i.e. you want Aero and all the other bells and whistles) then yeah 2Gb of RAM and a PCI-e graphics card (or higher) would be what you'd be looking at to run it smoothly.

NOTE: While I don't have access to the Vista beta :cry: , I am aware people (in this thread) have noted Vista runs well on lesser machines, however, it's currently a BETA and by the time it reaches final it will (in my opinion) require a more powerful machine to run smoothly because it will have the final UI (what we have seen is not the final, but a a tiny taste of what's to come (if you remember what MS said a while ago, that the current UI is only a place holder for the real deal which is in BETA 2, well that if MS haven't changed thier minds again :laugh: ) all the under lying sub-systems will be either finished or if there were missing, added etc...this is purely my opinion based on previous experiences from BETA software and take it with a grain of salt :p

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memory is very important then, i got a 2g memory installation, during daily use, it takes about 1.1g.

also a cpu with hyper-threading will make the running of vista 5219 smoothly.

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Depends, if you don't mind Vista looking like Windows 2000 then no you don't need 2Gb RAM and a PCI-e graphics card to run it..but if you want Vista in all it's glory (i.e. you want Aero and all the other bells and whistles) then yeah 2Gb of RAM and a PCI-e graphics card (or higher) would be what you'd be looking at to run it smoothly.

NOTE: While I don't have access to the Vista beta  :cry: , I am aware people (in this thread) have noted Vista runs well on lesser machines, however, it's currently a BETA and by the time it reaches final it will (in my opinion) require a more powerful machine to run smoothly because it will have the final UI (what we have seen is not the final, but a a tiny taste of what's to come (if you remember what MS said a while ago, that the current UI is only a place holder for the real deal which is in BETA 2, well that if MS haven't changed thier minds again  :laugh: ) all the under lying sub-systems will be either finished or if there were missing, added etc...this is purely my opinion based on previous experiences from BETA software and take it with a grain of salt  :p

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In my experience Beta's usually require more resources than final products due to all the unoptimised code

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Just wait and see, we won't know how much you "really" need until it is out and has been sufficiently tried to third party test

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im agreeing on this comment. :yes:

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Im running Vista pre beta 2 on Athlon 3000+, 1 gig ram and ati x800 xt, and its running great. There is no reason performance should decrease in final. Code will be optimised and driversupport will be a lot better.

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Unless they cram in TONS of bloat at the time of beta 2 and onwards, and that would be truly disappointing.

Oh they will, don't you worry. That's one of their only specialties

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I don't see why it would. Dell and HP sell 256 MB systems (2.4 GHz Celerons), MS certainly wants them to they be able to upgrade.

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But Microsoft doesn't care if they get the eye-candy. They just want the basic OS to work (maybe with another 256MB stick added).

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Hope i will be a happy Linux user when Vista comes out...

For me this eye candy is just not so important like rest of OS

like stability and security, Microsoft IMO is just trying

to impress users :)

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It will be interesting to see how it goes between Microsoft and the PC makers like Dell and Hp as Microsoft has told them to plan on no more on board video when Vista ships. Vista is being designed to use a separate video card not one with shared memory.

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I think this is a very good move, they could provide the eyecandy with onboard video, but it'd just eat up system resources. By seperating graphics from the core OS, your computer becomes more powerful right away.

And I also think that the final version will run on 256 megs of ram minus eye candy. I have XP installed on my grandpa's poor 333mhz 64 meg ram computer and it runs fine :)

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In my experience Beta's usually require more resources than final products due to all the unoptimised code

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most of the time yes but at this point Vista is still missing some major components which might end up slowing down the system a bit

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I've run it smoothly, no problems with 512 Mb Ram and only an ATI 9800Pro in a 4x AGP slot... I know that some things will be added in beta 2 and in the RCs but I can't see it getting too obscene....

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Does upgrading your PC to what? 2GB ram and having to have PCI express and the slew of other crap worth the upgrade?

I'd just buy a proprietary system with Vista on it already to get around all this crap

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Everytime M$ launchs a new OS the PC Hw industry is happy.. :woot:

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  • 2 weeks later...

I'm running beta 2 on an Sony Vaio VGN-A117S

Intel Pentium M Processor 735

Memory 512 MB

Video Chipset ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (64mb)

Video Memory 64 MB DDR

and it work well enough :yes:

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