I have a Compaq Presario that came with basic RAM. I’ve since added an extra gig of RAM, and it’s faster. I just use it for surfing the net and e-mail and Word. I’m not satisfied with the free antivirus crap I’ve experienced and want to go back to Norton. If I ad two more gigs (making it 3 gigs plus whatever it came with), will that allow my computer to still be fast? I know Norton slows things down, so how much memory would I need beyond that. I’m not running any apps in multimedia or other memory-consuming stuff. Except for the original slowing, Norton worked perfectly in protecting me, and I want it back. Thoughts? Thanks.
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1 Kamin_Majere // Aug 16, 2008
Well first let me dispel the myth surrounding RAM. It actually doesn’t make your system any faster… it just makes it feel snappier. As it allows the fast access of RAM to show data instead of the several orders of magnitude slower hard drive doing the work.
As to norton… no you can add Infinite amouts of RAM and Norton will still crawl your system. It has to o with the CPU being the Computers bottle neck. You need a more powerful more cored CPU to be able to run anti-virus programs with out noticable slowdown.
Even Quad core CPU’s will show some slow down when a program like Norton is running (though not as much)
Your best bet is to get rid of norton and get a less system hog anti-virus program like Nod32.
2 JL // Aug 16, 2008
Norton 2009 only uses like 40-50MB. They cut back a lot. The older versions suck, but I must admit, the 2009 is a vast improvement. One task runs, not ten.
I ran it on 1GB and old cpu. Still was able to browse the Internet and do other things. With 2 or 3GB, it shouldn't even impact your system, granted you have a fast processor.
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