What if you double the RAM?

[camelchops]

I'm interested in a Sony VGC-V3S desktop and using Vista on it. Sony recommend the maximum RAM as 1GB - but is that a guideline or gospel? If I doubled it to 2GB RAM would it perform faster or cause problems?

Thanks

[Thalamus.]

Hi camelchops,

Welcome to Club Vaio..

According to Crucial.com your Vaio V3S can support 2Gb of RAM..

Here is a guide on how to upgrade your Vaio's memory ?

[camelchops]

Many thanks for this. Interesting that Sony and Crucial disagree on the maximum RAM - Sony say 1GB in all their specs. But if Crucial are right, then problem solved!

LINK

[Thalamus.]

You're welcome camelchops..

[kee-lo_]

It's a question that's dominated forums and boards for years, will RAM actually help me, and in a way yes, but the rest of the machine needs to be quick to make full use of the new RAM. It's no good having a slow bus rate and adding more RAM as you'll get a bottleneck and slow down, but on new machines getting more RAM often pays off.