No, I agree on the ram. Most people will not use anywhere close to that in regular PC use. But it is so damn cheap!

I actually do use more than 4GB when I have FEA and CFD analysis' going simultaneously.

 

Yeah it works well with my Autodesk 3ds Max which the recommended 2gb does not seem good enough

 

try running a program called firefox ultimate optimizer, it cut down the cpu and memory usage for firefox to almost nothing. you can get it here

hxxp://firefox-ultimate-optimizer.en.softonic.com/

 

Thank you for the info guys. As far as the memory, I do use quite a bit as I multitask rather heavily doing web design, which is very intensive when you have 18 windows opens for html/php, 1 image program with multiple 2 meg images load at the same time, apache/mysql server running and an unlimited amount of IE and firefox for publishing purposes. And I run I believe 4 gigs if I remember correctly, its been a while since I did the build.

Really the only problem is firefox taking a dump with such high resources used.. Usually, firefox has a decent sized footprint on my 32 bit machine.

Oh and yes and playing COD4 and 5 with my GTS8800 is always fun as well

About Windows 7... I will wait until its released to even think of trying it.. I never even touched Vista yet.. have no need.

Latest windows software I am at is xp and 2003 server.

 

I have ran xp 64bit on my laptop (dell vostro 1500) I refuse to use vista or vista x64. I never had a problem with xp 64 except finding some drivers which was the main reason I went back to Xp 32bit. Maybe try the firefox beta's or google chrome. 64bit xp also felt a little faster than 32bit. Do you have all your drivers updated? Also what are your system specs?

 

windows 7 in its beta form is what vista should have been when it was released i'm really looking forward to the retail release. That being said 64 bit vista ultimate is just awesome for awhile i was dual booting xp 64 and vista ultimate 64 since some of the games I play did not support vista at first, while vista had issues at first, in it's current incarnation it is far and away the most stable and reliable os I have ever used (yes that includes several different versions of linux I had to learn for school while working on my networking degree)

 

I would think it would be more of the sum of data in said tabs that's making it bog... Not sure I've ever had that many tabs open.

As far as the 64bit vs 32bit slant on XP and Vista: Went from Athlon64 and XP Pro to Athlon 64 X2 and Vista Ult. 64 bit to run Blue Ray on a Home Theater PC and the end result was SO OVERWHELMING, it's rediculous to even say the later config was even an Athlon.

I'm running the full 8 gigs of RAM and a pair of Nvidia 9800's in SLI. Even with SLI disabled it is stupid fast.

But hey, I had a baby coming - I needed to get the Blue Ray HTPC rig built before the baby got here if you know what I mean!

 

I was always told to maintain 3 times the recommended spec for best performance - anyone elses heard that one..?

 

Intel dual core 4300

Nvidia Geforce 880 GTS 512

Foxconn Motherboard

4 gig of (do not remember ram specs)

dual 22 inch lcds


I need to update the system as some of the components are getting a little old... but as of right now she is the workhorse so its okay.
Oh trust me it is very possible to run that many tabs open and still not have effected performance.. well your not looking at top performance but it is possible. Only problem is you loose the site you were browsing when you have all those tabs open!


Yep