A performance expert claims that Windows 7 PCs max out their memory, resulting in performance bottlenecks.
Exo.performance.network (Xpnet) chief technology officer, Craig Barth said that new figures show an unsettling trend.
On average, per cent of Windows 7 machines in the XPnet pool are regularly consuming 90-95 per cent of their available RAM, resulting in slow-downs as the systems were forced to increasingly turn to disk-based virtual memory to handle tasks.
The 86 per cent mark for Windows 7 is more than twice the average number of Windows XP machines that run at the memory "saturation" point, said Barth.
The most recent snapshot of XPnet's 23,000-plus PCs show that only 40 percent of XP systems run low on memory.
Obviously with their memory flat out the machines are not performing that well. But according to Barth the low-memory condition of most Windows 7 PCs is even more notable considering the amount of RAM in Windows 7 systems.
Windows 7 PCs have an average of 3.3GB of memory, compared to 1.7GB in the average Windows XP computer.
It is not clear if the memory usage is being eaten up by the operating system itself, or users maxing out their computers with more software.
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There are plenty of reasons to knock MS, but using a good memory management scheme is not one of them.
HyperX 1600 24GB DDR3
It seems that Kingston will answer some prayers, as this memory giant prepares to launch 24GB memory kits at Cebit. Some ultra high end users have been requesting such products for quite some time and after Cebit this crazy kit should become available.
The kit will end up branded as Kingston HyperX New 24GB 1600MHz DDR3 and as you can see it can work at 1600MHz. This memory will target X58 based chipset and we can only assume that it comes with six times 4GB memory modules but this is something that we cannot conform at press time.
Kingston believes that 24GB memory should be great for general performance and workstation applications, photo, video and 3D rendering
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