Anyone use a Memory Boosting program with Win2k?

[DOOPYLOOPY]

I was wondering if there is any need at all for a Memory boosting program when running Win2k SP1. I was thinking something like memturbo. Will this simply slow my system performance down or will I find it beneficial and the computer will always feel like it's just booted?

Also I'm thinking of putting in ECC RAM. Would I see a performance increase with ECC over non ECC RAM?

Anyone have any experience with ECC? This is for a workstation environment not server.

 

[AndyHui]

ECC RAM is slower than non-parity/non-ECC RAM. You will NOT see a performance increase using ECC RAM...the opposite in fact, although the difference is only marginal.

Unless you are running in a mission critical environment, ECC RAM is not necessary, as RAM these days is reliable enough most of the time to not produce any errors.

Win2K's memory management is also very different to Win9x's and so it does not really need something like memturbo, as Win2K does a much better job of unloading free RAM.

 

[DOOPYLOOPY]

I thought I saw somewhere on this message board that someone was using Win2k in conjunction with Memturbo.

Yeah I know it is meant to release memory after it has been used but I find that it probably is faster just after rebooting. If after doing that I unrar a massive file and do some burning etc etc it is a bit slower. But I think this may be due to only having 128mb.

If I upgrade to 512mb I should theoretically never have to shut down should I?

I think I'll go non-ECC if i'm actually going to get performance degradation. You say marginal Andy hazard a guess? 5%-10%? 2% It's only going to cost me $25 more for ECC-RAM. And if it means that the Ram will virtually never fail then it seems good enough.

ALso what sort of performance increase under Win2k do you think I may see using Cas2 vs Cas3 Ram. Or is this more mobo than OS dependent

 

[AndyHui]

Difference is a maximum of 5% with ECC, and same with the difference between CAS2 and CAS3....a maximum of 5%.

Generally ECC SDRAM doesn't seem to overclock as well as non-parity/non-ECC SDRAM....at least, that's what I have heard.

I still recommend against buying ECC SDRAM. What motherboard do you have?

You will find a very big performance boost going from 128MB of RAM to 512MB on a Win2K system. If you have that much RAM, I wouldn't bother getting something like memturbo.....it may have helped when you had only 128MB, but 512MB will make your system fly.

 

[DOOPYLOOPY]

I have an A7V rev 1.02

My friend is going to purchase for me some Norse Technologies 256mb DIMMs Cas2

Sounds like non-ECC is the go.

I haven't tried running Memturbo in 2k with my current 128mb of ram. I was told it would be detrimental and reduce system performance. Is this true?

Or can i get "some" benefit out of it?

Yeah with 512 I don't think I'll have to worry!

hehehe 🙂

 

[DOOPYLOOPY]

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[tracerbullet]

I use "Rambooster", got it from Download.com . I love it. Works very quickly, easily, etc. No adds, or funny on screen purchase notes. Just very simple. Let me run 98SE on time through a 48 hour LAN party without a single reboot - multiple games (preinstalled of course,,, and there was some sleep time in there for me), but anyway, it's great.

Runs in both 98 and 2000. 98 constantly loses memory, Rambooster appears to free it up. Machine does run noticeably faster for me afterwards. I have it on 2000, and use it there too, but as mentioned earlier it must do a better job to begin with as there is always free RAM open.

One program to try, easy to install and uninstall, just an EXE no registry entries I believe, so if you don't like it you aren't stuck with it. Never tried Membooster though.