Amount of Memory question?

[jlangner]

I currently have 512MB of PC3200 memory. Would it be worthwhile to go to 1 GB or would it have little if any improvement?

XP2800/333
512 MB Corsair pc3200
A7N8X deluxe
GeForce 5900

[Anonymous]

what do you do with your computer? It all depends on that.

[jlangner]

Games - Halo, UT2003, Raven Shield, Madden 2004, etc. BTW anyone else game on pc here! lol

[Anonymous]

i think the extra ram would benefit you alot to a certain extent, If it's cheap enough, ya go for it, other wise, nah.... I usualy wish i had more ram when i am doing multitasking stuff, so anyways, bottom line, I's not gonna give you a SUPER speed difference, but i think it will help a little on some stuff, Anyone else got anything different to say? Mine's sorda a game PC i just don't play the games like Unreal Tournament, i do play HALO,and The Sims and numerous C&C games. Monopol tycoon, Roller coaster tycoon, Flight Sim 2000, And lots of demos that i plan to buy, such as Ghost Master, and others :D, i only have 256MB ram (PC2700) registered, so my ram is a little bit more rar and expensive or i would have more...:(

[Jeff]

Do you have performance issues when doing certani things?

[jlangner]

No issues that I have noticed.

[Jeff]

Jeff,
My personal advice is as follows:
Unless you can find a great deal on memory, I wouldn't worry about it. However, if further down the road you experience performance issues, you might want to take another look at memory.
Hope I helped
Jeff S

[vaughan]

RAM - buy if within your budget, More - better.
Games: Neopets of course, Age of Empires Rise of Rome expansion.

[jlangner]

Thanks guys!

[chaz]

Since your OS basically "lives" within your ram, the more the better, but I dont think you will see see a big difference in performance over 512mb, unless you do video editing or something like that.

BF 1942
Mohaa
Ghost recon
Sudden Strike
Silent Hunter

[jlangner]

I have been getting an error on trying to post since yesterday. Says invalid_session, any ideas.

[Anonymous]

i get that every time i use konqerer in linux, or once i got it in IE in windows, just once

[Bionic_Redneck]

yea I get those too but with konqueror but not often since I switched to konqueror 3.1.3 but when I do I just click back then refresh

[ZooTech]

I currently have 512MB of PC3200 memory. Would it be worthwhile to go to 1 GB or would it have little if any improvement?

XP2800/333
512 MB Corsair pc3200
A7N8X deluxe
GeForce 5900

Download and install FreeRam XP Pro 1.40 and monitor your available RAM while running intense applications. If your available memory ever drops down below 64Mb maybe an upgrade would be worthwhile, or you could clear out the startup routine. FreeRam can be had here:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=1670

[c17simtech]

Here is the output of the free command with 512mb of Crucial 2100 DDR


[micah@antec2400][~][1]$free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 514580 437508 77072 0 70144 266228
-/+ buffers/cache: 101136 413444
Swap: 514040 3284 510756


Running Fluxbox window manager (0.1.14)

Getting 1Gb this christmas :D (it will make linux very happy)

c17simtech

[jlangner]

Thanks, I'll give it a try.