Q: Ok let me tell you my scenerio. I have physically windows XP and I have 1.5 GB of RAM currently I did have 2.24 GB of RAM but after benchmark tests I decided that the 1.5 GB of RAM performed better because all four RAM modules were the same brand and speed and the 2.24 Gig set up wasnt the same brands I have a dual channel mother board but currently I made my windows XP look exactly like Windows Vista and as we know the vista look eats a gig of RAM at any given time so my question is should I go with the 1.5 Gig set up like I have now or should I go with the 2.24 gig setup ? All the RAM is PC-3200 DDR I have (2) HP 256 MB , (1) 1 GB Samsung , (2) Hynix 512 MB availible so which way should I go?
A: I would say go with the 1.5GB because even if XP looks like Vista, it doesn't use as much RAM as Vista. Vista does not use that 1GB of RAM just for appearance, but also for performance.