re: which is better/necessary Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 3:47 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by geek9pm (765 messages posted) You question is also about hardware. As to Windows XP, it does fine with just 128MB. But that will not allow you to have many programs running at the same time. The performance of XP on a single application at at time does not improve much beyond 512MB. Photo and Video editing are programs that take more memory and may benefit by memory up to about 2GB. Surfing the Internet takes very little. As you your hardware question, that depends a lot on which motherboard and RAM you have. Look in your documentation to see if there are warnings about using a single stick. I don't think that matters anymore on newer machines. By the way, the memory module is more often called Stick in a Desktop and Card in a laptop. Or is your computer so old that it really has a memory card.? When was that? Geek9pm Written in response to: which is better/necessary (Anthony J. Thannisch: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 3:28 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] which is better/necessary (Anthony J. Thannisch: Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 3:28 pm) re: which is better/necessary (jaf: Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 3:41 pm) re: which is better/necessary (Anthony J. Thannisch: Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 10:07 pm) re: which is better/necessary (geek9pm: Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 3:47 pm) re: which is better/necessary (Steve: Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 4:18 pm) re: which is better/necessary (Ricer46: Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 6:20 pm) re: which is better/necessary (C K: Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 8:33 pm) re: which is better/necessary (bob wells: Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 8:44 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum