Windows 10: is 2GB RAM enough?

Discus and support is 2GB RAM enough? in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; I was going to install Windows 10 on an old Pentium Dual Core PC with 2GB RAM, currently running Windows 7. Is it best to upgrade the RAM to 4GB first?... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by mccririck, May 29, 2015.

  1. mccririck Win User

    is 2GB RAM enough?


    I was going to install Windows 10 on an old Pentium Dual Core PC with 2GB RAM, currently running Windows 7. Is it best to upgrade the RAM to 4GB first?

    :)
     
    mccririck, May 29, 2015
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  2. Gigabits Win User

    Windows 10 with RAM

    I have 6 gigabytes of ram and windows 8.1 uses 2gb, leaving me with 4 gb. If I upgrade to windows 10 will it take 2 more gigabytes of ram leaving me with only 2gb of ram total? If I upgrade will I be
    left with 4gb or 2gb of RAM?
     
    Gigabits, May 29, 2015
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  3. How to migrate/Install from Windows 10 64-bit to Windows 10 32-bit

    Yeah, Windows 10 64-Bit on 2GB RAM becomes sluggish sometimes, as the minimum requirement for it is also 2GB RAM.
     
    Anmol_Arya, May 29, 2015
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  4. BunnyJ New Member

    is 2GB RAM enough?

    It should work fine.. but more RAM is always better.
     
    BunnyJ, May 29, 2015
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  5. I ran 10 in a VM with only 2GB of RAM and it runs fine for basic things

    If you try and open more than 2 or 3 apps at the same time it gets a bit slow
     
    paulsalter, May 29, 2015
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  6. That old of a PC might not run Windows 10 at all, so you'd better try it first, and worry about ram later.*

    * I too have an old PC here, that accepted Windows 7, x86, but all later OS's refuse to install.

    But on my test PC's, the most ram I have on any of them is 2GB. So YES, Windows 10 will run with just 2GB of RAM.

    Happy Testing!

    *Cool
     
    TechnoMage, May 29, 2015
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  7. bordi Win User
    Here are the Windows 10 system requirements, as provided by Microsoft:

    Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster.
    RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
    Free hard disk space: 16 GB.

    So I dug up an old laptop that was gathering dust: EI Systems 1212 with 1GB ram, 1.73 GHz and 120GB hard drive.

    It installed fine, a bit slow but 1gb of ram what do we expect.
     
    bordi, May 29, 2015
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  8. LMiller7 Win User

    is 2GB RAM enough?

    Windows 8 and later have some CPU requirements above those for Windows 7. There are some systems that run Windows 7 with no problems that fail on later systems. The numbers are quite small but they do exist.

    Whether 2 GB RAM is enough depends entirely on what applications you run and your expectations. While 2 GB RAM exceeds the minimum requirements for a 32 bit OS it will not provide optimum performance. This will be particularly noticeable when running multiple or demanding applications. Only older or undemanding games are likely to run satisfactorily. The fact that the CPU and other components are old only compounds the problem.
     
    LMiller7, Apr 4, 2018
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