4GB memory in a T61?

[TorquedJetta]

So I just bought a T61 from IMB with a T7300 cpu 2.0ghz and only 1GB of ram because it was overpriced to upgrade. Now, with 4GB from newegg only being 165.xx, should I grab 4GB or should i just go and buy a 2GB pair and stick that in there?

It is coming with Vista home premium 32.
However I do plan to upgrade to 64bit this summer with my Co-Op Money.

Mainly going to be used for Matlab and PSpice (if I can get it from my school) along with a bit of CS2

[Tsaroth]

So I just bought a T61 from IMB with a T7300 cpu 2.0ghz and only 1GB of ram because it was overpriced to upgrade. Now, with 4GB from newegg only being 165.xx, should I grab 4GB or should i just go and buy a 2GB pair and stick that in there?

It is coming with Vista home premium 32.
However I do plan to upgrade to 64bit this summer with my Co-Op Money.

Mainly going to be used for Matlab and PSpice (if I can get it from my school) along with a bit of CS2

My personal opinion is that until you get 64 bit then 4gb is not even going to register correctly.

On top of that, if the only game you are playing is CS:S then I think 2GB would be sufficient overall for your system.

I run 2GB of memory on a socket 939 and get like 100 fps in CS:S at 1440x900, that game is not the most demanding.

Just a thought.

[TorquedJetta]

My personal opinion is that until you get 64 bit then 4gb is not even going to register correctly.

On top of that, if the only game you are playing is CS:S then I think 2GB would be sufficient overall for your system.


I understand it will not be fully recognized as 4GB but closer to 3.7GB.

By CS2 I mean Photoshop not CS:S. I gave up on that when I decided to go to college. Somethings need to come first and PC gaming is not one of them

[tiro_uspsss]

if ur photoshopping u should definitely get 4GB!

from Anandtech:
(quote)
" We opened 104 images in Adobe Photoshop CS3 from our recent trip to Las Vegas for CES 2007; with all 104 images opened and loaded, we then timed how long it would take for Microsoft Word to start. In Windows XP, despite some swapping, Microsoft Word 2007 started in just under 8 seconds. On our Vista test bed, starting Word took almost 20 seconds due to constant paging to disk. The only difference? Vista's heightened memory requirements took a stressful situation that worked reasonably well under XP and made it far more painful with the same amount of memory.

We then upgraded the Vista machine to 3GB and ran the test again; thanks to faster application load times and intelligent prefetching, Word started in 1.31 seconds. If you thought that 2GB was the sweet spot for Windows XP, chances are 3GB will be the new minimum for you under Vista. "

'nuff said :up:

[HotGore]

I understand it will not be fully recognized as 4GB but closer to 3.7GB.

By CS2 I mean Photoshop not CS:S. I gave up on that when I decided to go to college. Somethings need to come first and PC gaming is not one of them

My experiance is 3.25 gb.

[TorquedJetta]

if ur photoshopping u should definitely get 4GB!



I will be photoshoping in my spare time not so much during the week so not worried about writing a paper and using CS2.

Anybody with an use of matlab and vista???