Op 01-10-09 17:26, Greg Freemyer schreef:
I'd guess that 1.5GB is now the minimum for a untweaked desktop environment, but 2GB is easier to buy/install.
Greg
I can confirm this. With 512 you need a (sw) ram-defragmenter to keep the, well, 'speed', if you can call it that. I used an amd64 with 512, and it crashed XP without warning. Adding another GB solved that problem, and it became much faster. 2GB i use now with AMDx2 64, and additional 753MB swap, but i am not sure that it is enough to hibernate. When i tested that a while ago, it went wrong, have not tried it since, never use it anyhow. Multitasking is only full scale possible, if all the apps have sufficient room, to be functional, there is nothing you can do about that. The newest hardware uses 4GB, but DDR3 seems to have its own defragmenter, and does not need this size. DDR2 Dual-channel 512 (=2x 256) is by far the fastest, but without sufficient video-ram (256 min.) not enough to play a real game. Than you need to add an extra GB. Which does not have to be Dual-channel. The board has to support Dual-channel though.. Don't forget that the resolutions we have now, take a lot of pixels to render. -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (M9.) (Now or never...) OS: Linux 2.6.31-8-desktop x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2-SFN1 Systeem: openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 7 (x86_64) KDE: 4.3.1 (KDE 4.3.1) "release 2" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org