With the expected yield new operating system Microsoft Windows Vista, many users think about how many would cost to update your computer so that it can work properly with the new system. In addition, a new graphical user interface that requires DirectX 9 support and the availability of Intel G965 graphic adapter or better, it is equally important factor is the requirement for the new system memory.

Installation requires only 512 MB RAM and 1 GB recommended. So, in addition to many users upgrade graphics card, will dokupat and memory modules.

Integrated graphics from ATI, Nvidia and Intel uses the RAM. This means that even if the kernel image embedded in Northbridge motherboard, it will slow down the need for continued access to RAM. Just working entry-level graphics card with PCIe interface using in exchange for a low cost, slow access to the system memory.

In these cases, a recommendation for minimum 512 MB RAM will not (part of the memory involved a graphical kernel).

Moreover, Windows Vista will appear with the new technology Superfetch. In Windows XP was the first version of its Prefetch: a dynamic service that writes files in advance swap file, in order to accelerate their load. Superfetch will improve this process with two innovations. The first is to create a profile of frequently used applications and stored profiles swap file and system memory. Second - creating an array of NAND and other available memory that could remove the swap file from the hard disk by moving it to the faster memory. As a result, users of systems that use a lot of profiles, given much of the memory of information on applications. In addition to the already marked Features graphics cards, it still will reduce the amount of memory available.

The forum IDF, we had the opportunity to interview Thrilla Toma, director of marketing for Samsung DRAM. Thrill noted an interesting fact that the system integrators already have prepared, having spent 6-8% of the cost to upgrade the system memory. Retail prices modules DDR2-667 already broke the barrier of 80 dollars per gigabyte, and wholesale prices for system integrators - 60 dollars. AMD and Intel are new processors, which can work with DDR2-800 memory, and present them in the fourth quarter of this year, just before the advent of Windows Vista. Taking into account the specifics of the market, we can expect that most systems integrators will supply new computers with 1 GB DDR2-667 by the end of this year.

The company published the results of Samsung's own studies, according to which the average personal computer RAM in 2005 reached 871 MB, which is considerably more than 620 MB for the year before that (chart). From these studies should have, and that the memory market is experiencing a huge surges in new versions of Windows. This has been observed when Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows XP. Large volumes of supplies traditionally lead to an increase in production and cheaper products.