Ok, i bought a Sony Vaio,Intel 4 630 with Hyper threading. Ive got 520 gig hard drive, 1gig of memory with 224 dedicated to video. Ive got a gift certificate to best buy and was wondering if it would be worth it to upgrade to 2 gig of mem. Or would i not even be able to tell a difference.
depends on what you are doing with the computer. if motherboard has an agp slot on it than could get a new videocard so that you have all 1gig to use
like i've heard the more ram you have the better off you are in speed and maintaning a stedy performance with your work, but since you have 1gb of ram already, you may want to upgrade to 1.5gb or like u said up to 2gb, im thinking about upgrading my memory up to 1.5gb, because 2gb would be more then necessary.
As ddp said I would upgrade the video card, so the 224 dedicated torward's video would go back for system, you probably have a pciex slot so make sure, an use that gift certificate for a 6600gt or better.
check this link but all prices are in canadian dollars. http://www.gogocomputers.com/productsVIDEOCARD.htm
First I would determine if you need it or not. Open the Windows Task Manager (either ctrl alt delete or right click on task bar and select Task Mananger) and go to the Performance tab. You can see what your actual memory usage is. A couple things to look at, one is Page File Usage History. If you run low on physical memory, Windows starts using your hard drive as virtual memory. If your page file usage history is flatlined that means you are not using the page file, so everything is running in your physical memory. You can also see the amount of available Physical Memory. If those values look good, adding more memory will do nothing for you - you aren't using all of what you have now.
