192 MB in NT 4 equals 256 in Windows 2000?

[Eug]

I just ordered two 128 MB sticks for my main computer, and that leaves me with two unused 64 MB sticks. If I donate one stick to my workplace for my office computer, is it going to make a huge difference? It's only a PII 350 by the way. (I'm assuming it takes 168 DIMM.) I find 128 MB on my Win 2000 machine (Celeron 880) acceptable, but on the PII 350 it just sucks.

P.S. Just ordered a Linksys 4-port switching router too. Should prove interesting.

 

[GL]

Eug I put together a computer out of spare parts for my girlfriend. It's got a PII300 o/c to 338 and 192MB RAM. It's noticeably sluggish in Win2k compared to my Celeron 520 with 256MB (even when I had only 128MB of RAM in it). I think the bottleneck is more the CPU than the RAM as my friend's Celeron 450 with 64MB RAM and Win2k seemed much faster than my girlfriend's computer. There's no disk thrashing which is great, but you can definitely tell a processor upgrade would really speed things up on her computer.

-GL

 

[Zach]

My celeron 450 with Win2K and 64megs was awful.. couldn't imaging using it with 300Mhz. Maybe that system had a faster hard drive or somthing too? Could be some extra services I was loading, but I didn't do that much extra.