Measured in Megabytes or MB, you might see GB this means Gigabyte or 1024
Megabytes
Memory is often over looked, as people mainly look at the processor speed, this can
be a fatal error. As you computer runs out of memory it will have to use
"virtual memory" (some of your storage space as memory) accessing a hard disk is
very slow compared to a memory chip, so the less memory you have the more
virtual memory your computer will use, hence it will be slower.
Types? - The Industry standard is DDR3 or the slightly older
DDR2, With its forerunner DDR. Very old computers use SDRAM
Dual channel? - This is a feature allowing the computer to talk to two
memory chips or slices at once, this parallel access of memory is a lot faster
for the computer. However memory has to be added in matched pairs of memory.
i.e. two chips of the same size and type.
Speeds? - Measured in MHz the faster (the Higher the number) the better it will
be.
Amounts? Running a modern computer on XP
256Mb is not enough
512Mb is OK
1Gb is Good
2Gb is Very Good
3.5Gb is Maximum
Vista 32 bit
1Gb is not enough
2Gb is OK
3Gb is Good
3.5Gb is Maximum
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