Re: Visual Studio 2005 - Real Hardware Requirements

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With the kind of 'tool-footprint' your talking about, max board ram( 1G
or better) and a processor over 2 gHz would certainly improve
performance. The VS IDE, and SQL Server by themselves will need most
resources depending on how you run the SQLServer services; so if you
have other things running you could see some performance issues.

As an example: I have a laptop with VS 2005 Pro, SQL Server 2005, on
XP Pro; hardware is Centrino M 725, 1 Ghz Ram, and 80 GB disk.

When I have VS 2005 open, and SQL Server running in the back ground,
the resources shrink by nearly 200 mg. With an app running in the IDE,
use another 10 to 50 mb. Add - ons and 3rd party stuff? It takes
resources.

I often have two or more instances of an IDE open, as well SQL
Management studio (another 50 mb), so my resources become very thin
indead.

If your system does a lot of paging to the disk, that could certainly
help slow things down in this situation, also.

Anyway, all that to say go for max if you can!

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