multitasking

How good will Vista be with mutlitasking with 1.5GB of RAM? I've got 768MB of RAM and plan on getting a gig stick, but removing my 256 stick. (I'm removing my 256 stick because it is only PC-2100.) I would like to be able to run my e-mail app, (probably Outlook XP, Outlook 2007 beta, or Windows Mail; I haven't decided which yet) WMP11, 5-8 paint documents, and Picture It opened at the same time. I can do this easily on XP with 768MB of RAM, but how would it be on Vista with 1.5GB?
Specs: Aspire X-Infinity Case (black) with a 430-watt ThermalTake PSU Asus K8N motherboard AMD Sempron 64 2800+ (754) overclocked to 2GHz (FSB is set to 250 instead of 200) 512MB Kingston PC-3000 stick 256MB Samsung PC-2100 stick Lite On 16x DVD drive Memorex (Lite On) 52x32x52 CD-RW drive 3 1/2" floppy Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM IDE (ATA100) 2MB cache HD - WINDOWS XP Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM IDE (ATA100) 8MB cache HD 1st Partition (D:) 55.8GB - WILL BE FOR THE VISTA PUBLIC BETA 2nd Partition (E:) 55.8GB - PERSONAL STORAGE Ati Radeon X1600 PRO AGP 8X 256MB GDDR2 video card Creative Soundblaster Audigy 24-bit soundcard

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"Travis King" wrote in message

How good will Vista be with mutlitasking with 1.5GB of RAM? I've got 768MB of RAM and plan on getting a gig stick, but removing my 256 stick. (I'm removing my 256 stick because it is only PC-2100.) I would like to be able to run my e-mail app, (probably Outlook XP, Outlook 2007 beta, or Windows Mail; I haven't decided which yet) WMP11, 5-8 paint documents, and Picture It opened at the same time. I can do this easily on XP with 768MB of RAM, but how would it be on Vista with 1.5GB?
Specs: Aspire X-Infinity Case (black) with a 430-watt ThermalTake PSU Asus K8N motherboard AMD Sempron 64 2800+ (754) overclocked to 2GHz (FSB is set to 250 instead of 200) 512MB Kingston PC-3000 stick 256MB Samsung PC-2100 stick Lite On 16x DVD drive Memorex (Lite On) 52x32x52 CD-RW drive 3 1/2" floppy Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM IDE (ATA100) 2MB cache HD - WINDOWS XP Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM IDE (ATA100) 8MB cache HD 1st Partition (D:) 55.8GB - WILL BE FOR THE VISTA PUBLIC BETA 2nd Partition (E:) 55.8GB - PERSONAL STORAGE Ati Radeon X1600 PRO AGP 8X 256MB GDDR2 video card Creative Soundblaster Audigy 24-bit soundcard

In a nutshell, Vista will benefit from all of the RAM you can give it. 1.5GB would be noticeably faster than 768MB from my experience.
-- Jeff Warren
"Travis King" wrote in message

How good will Vista be with mutlitasking with 1.5GB of RAM? I've got 768MB of RAM and plan on getting a gig stick, but removing my 256 stick. (I'm removing my 256 stick because it is only PC-2100.) I would like to be able to run my e-mail app, (probably Outlook XP, Outlook 2007 beta, or Windows Mail; I haven't decided which yet) WMP11, 5-8 paint documents, and Picture It opened at the same time. I can do this easily on XP with 768MB of RAM, but how would it be on Vista with 1.5GB?
Specs: Aspire X-Infinity Case (black) with a 430-watt ThermalTake PSU Asus K8N motherboard AMD Sempron 64 2800+ (754) overclocked to 2GHz (FSB is set to 250 instead of 200) 512MB Kingston PC-3000 stick 256MB Samsung PC-2100 stick Lite On 16x DVD drive Memorex (Lite On) 52x32x52 CD-RW drive 3 1/2" floppy Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM IDE (ATA100) 2MB cache HD - WINDOWS XP Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM IDE (ATA100) 8MB cache HD 1st Partition (D:) 55.8GB - WILL BE FOR THE VISTA PUBLIC BETA 2nd Partition (E:) 55.8GB - PERSONAL STORAGE Ati Radeon X1600 PRO AGP 8X 256MB GDDR2 video card Creative Soundblaster Audigy 24-bit soundcard