Windows 10: 4 GB RAM - How will it run on Windows 10?

Hi there

running x-64 version in a VM (OK I know it's not quite the same) with 2GB RAM allocated --runs fine. I can't see any problems with 4GB RAM on a real machine whatsoever.

Things like Photoshop and ms office run just fine in the VM.

Cheers
jimbo

 

Glad I could kind of help. *Wink

 

The pagefile was introduced to provide a place where old stale data could be offloaded from RAM leaving more of it for more important purposes, thus improving performance. The pagefile isn't the only or even the biggest source of hard pagefaults. Having a pagefile generally lowers the overall level of pagefaults. The pagefile is useful BECAUSE RAM is faster than the hard drive. Counterintuitive I know, but still true.

 

The pagefile is useful BECAUSE RAM is faster than the hard drive.

This doesn`t make much sense, a pagefile is on the hard drive.

With 12 GB of ram or more, I personally find a pagefile useless anymore, with 16 GB of ram in my W7 machine I`ve turned it off. No issues in 2 years.

I know some programs may require it.

 

You have (basically) paged and non-paged functions in memory.
Paged memory can be paged (swapped) in and out of the pagefile (and out/in of RAM)
non-paged memory stays in the RAM

So, the memory requirement for an OS is amount of stuff that stays in RAM (plus, I'd suspect, a bit of overhead) in the supported scenarios. Don't forget that there has to be some space in the RAM for stuff that's swapped in/out of the pagefile too.

I ran without a pagefile in the early days of Win7. I had no problems (for about 6 months) until I installed a game which demanded that I have one.

 

The first computer I worked on had 1 megabyte of ram!
When I updated it to 4 megabytes it cost me $300 for a 4 Mb ram stick.

Of course the hard drive was only 40 megabytes, and I think Windows used up 17 of those.

Windows 3.1 couldn't access this massive amount of memory at startup and it used to be a real hassle to get it to load some software.

Now I have 32,000 megabytes of ram, and 2,000,000 megabytes of internal hard drive space, times have really changed.

I still have a page file but I don't put it on my C:\ drive and I have no idea how much it gets used.

Mike

 

On this PC I got it with 4gm of RAM. Worked fine but I decided one day to get and 8GB stick(Corsair Vengeance) and I love it. Oh and I got 15$ bucks for trading in the 4gb of RAM. Nice deal. *Wink

 

wish I could find a4 gig stick for 15$

 

Usasma, are you referring to Kernel memory - because that is a special case.

 

I just bought two 32BG USB3 sticks (Team) from the egg - $9.95 each and free shipping. They are not the fastest, but they work.

 

You can get one bigger and cheaper at Staples, no Staples near by ?

If you`re gonna use it for installing OS`s, get an 8 GB.

 

I think bunnyj was referring to ram ,and some how it got switched to usb drives , usb drive I get on sale Wal-Mart 32gig for 12.49cdn or
The Source 16gig for 9.99cdn ,that was bought before I took a walk through Wal-Mart 2 days later

 

I thought the thread was about RAM?? But anyway, I don't shop at Staples anymore. Just too expensive and when I need printer paper I go to Wall-Mart.

 

it is ,but it got windy ,and changed around , and who know what's to come *Sleepy

 

it is ,but it got windy ,and changed around , and who know what's to come *Sleepy Oh and I usually get my PC parts from Amazon, Tigerdirect or NewEgg,,