re: Added a trainload of RAM....
Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 10:37 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Z
(87 messages posted)
Thanks for the reply.
One thing I am finding it helpful w/ is coding in VisualStudio .NET. It was painfully
slow before upgrading. Now it's about the speed of version 6. Why, I really have
no idea.
I think I'll hang on to the extra RAM. First, I didn't buy it, the corporation did.
I was specifically told to purchase that much. Secondly, there was a day when 32MB
was ALL you needed on a Wintel box. Someday (probably sooner than latter) 256MB
will be viewed in the same light.
Thanks for the follow-up. If there is any tweaking I should do the the Windows swap
system, please let me know.
Thanks.
>To start with, both other fellows that replied hit the nail on the head. In
truth,
>the average user will never need more than 256 MB's of RAM. Im my opinion, the
term
>"average" covers heavy hard core gamers as well as people who don't do much more
>than surf the web or run MS office. For serious gaming you need a kick butt good
>video card more than you would ever need more than 256 MB's of RAM. Lot's of people
>who don't know any better buy a ton of RAM so they can brag how much they have.
>And that only impresses other people who don't know. Also, some stores will try
>to sell you more than you really need as well.......the reason, I believe, is obvious. I've
>run a few tests on 2000 Pro and with 256 MB's of RAM I've yet to use all the available
>physical memory and that's with a heavy game and several other CPU intense programs
>running. I know if you're running a heavily used server more RAM is indeed a good
>thing....but how many people run servers in their house that actually get heavy
use.
> For number crunching you won't likely ever need more than 256. In truth, with
more
>than 256 you could probably look and see you never use anything over 200 MB's.
The
>only programs I can think of offhand that would require more than 256 would have
>to be autocad or softimage and other graphic progams as well as some sound editing
>software. If you can, I'd take 256 back to the store and find a better use for
the
>money.
>
>
>On Friday, February 15, 2002 at 8:00 pm, Z wrote:
>PC133 RAM on an HP Corporate grade workstation.
>
>:
>It has been a myth for quite a while that increasing your systems RAM will increase
>
>system speed. That is unfortunately, not the case. Your biggest factor in this matter
>
>is.... what did you add it to? If running a "prefab" system... what is it? do you
>
>know what type of motherboard you have? Also... what type of ram did you add? PC100,
>
>PC133, Rambus, DDR?
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