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Vista Home Basic 32bit

Discussion in 'Windows OS' started by Tha General, Dec 19, 2008.

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  1. Tha General TechSpot Paladin

    Hey yall. I am buying my new rig soon, and it comes with XP pro, however i plan to upgrade to Vista home basic 32bit, how much ram do you need to run that OS, perfectly?

    The rig comes with 2.4ghz and its a gateway prebuilt Intel Pentium Dual Core, with DDR2 2GB Memory. I am told it can hold 4GB, not really sure on it tho.
    Tha General, Dec 19, 2008
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  2. virgin Jello Newcomer, in training


    Vista Home will run okay with 2Gb sytem RAM but 3Gb is the sweetspot for Vista Home. As a rule of thumb, 1.5 for XP 3 for Vista minimum, however a 32bit operating system can not address 4Gb of memory, just not in the cards. 64bit
    operating systems can.
    virgin Jello, Dec 19, 2008
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  3. Tha General TechSpot Paladin

    Alright cool, i will upgrade to 3GB once i get the rig. I want to keep things system for my secondary rig, so vista home basic 32bit seems perfect. :)
    Tha General, Dec 19, 2008
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