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July 8th, 2008 09:00

memory and windows xp

Hi,

Please settle an argument, is 512Mb of RAM sufficient to run Windows XP?

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July 8th, 2008 10:00

Xp minimum system requirements is 128Mb of RAM See here.

 

Recommend 2Gb or superior though.

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July 8th, 2008 10:00

512 will run XP fine if all you do is basic Web browsing office aps etc.

 

More is better for memory hungry applications like Photoshop video editing. IOW what you need depends on what you do.

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July 8th, 2008 13:00

While more is better, there are diminishing returns. Anything less than 384mb is annoying to me. You'll want 512 if you run a few things always loaded into memory. I remove as much thing from  starting as I can.

so yes 512 will run. There are lots of older Dells running XP just fine that  cannot take more memory than 512.

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July 10th, 2008 12:00

Thanks guys.
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