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128Mb to 256Mb - what difference?

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downhiller80

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OK on the spur of the moment I've just ordered myself a stick of Crucial 128MB PC133 CAS2 ram. For those of you interested they now offer the CAS2 stuff in 256MB varieties, but that's out of my limit!

Anyway, I currently have 2 x Crucial 64MB PC133 CAS2 sticks so this will fill my board, but next time I upgrade it'll be DDR anyway so I'm not worried about not having any slots left.

What difference am I goign to see? I'm using win 2000 and my typical memory usage seems to be around 140MB. I guess I could have done with just an extra 64MB stick. Ah well, to hell with it. I love credit cards!

Now will the post still be working on friday with our fuel crisis in the UK 🙁

Seb
 
In Win2K you should see a nice boost. Much more smoother. Especially when doing alot of multitasking. Like 7-8 Windows open at once. And Even more so if your using some programs like Photoshop...

Games like Quake3 will be smoother too, most likely.
 
OK I'll come clean. I do of course know what differences it'll make.

But you know how it is, you buy something nice and you feel the need to tell everyone!!

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Seb

 
Most people think it isn't nessessary for win9x, I think it depends on how much money you have and the rest of the system. If you have a Celeron450a and a TNT1, 256MB RAM is pretty worthless, but if you have some suave fast system, without any other weak points, and some money, go for it. It is needed in win2k if you are a power user of any sort, or even to play games in 2k. Games used the page file way too much when I had Win2k.
 
Totally depends on what you're doing. If it's typically using 140MB, then 256MB will smooth things out, and ought to give you enough extra for nearly anything else you might do that'd suck up more RAM.
I had 128 for quite a while and now I have 256, there's quite a difference for me, but I am a heavy multitasker.
 
in win2k 256 is a good amount. I've tried 512, 768 and 1 gig of ram (when i've had the chance to) and well, that doesnt really make a big difference.
 
More RAM is always good. but the benefits are diminishing... benefits still exist, but not in proportion to what you have compared to what you had.
 
i have 64, and i can't really complain, my computer is good enough for me, well untilthe next quake comes out, (if there will be another one, but i think i've heard something about a game called trinity coming out) oh well, my computer does fine for me, as long as i can see whats going on in the game and i get a ping under 100.
 
got 256mb 150mhz hsdram in win2k and i can leave open about 10 to 20 windows (regular tasks like IE 5.5 windows, email program, bot program, icq, rc5 window, winamp, winzip, and a few other windows) and still go play Q3A without any problems or slowing down (including switching between interfaces of win2k and q3a without accessing hard drive for more than 1.0 seconds)
 
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