Asus P3V4x All 4 RAM/DIMM Slots

[drizzt99]

I have an Asusus P3V4X MB and have two slots filled with 128Mb RAM each (PIII 667). I added the second 128 when I noticed poor performance in my graphics apps (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator). Of course I like having all of my "nice little system tray progams" running so I am at about 73% resources free at startup. If I load just 1 graphics app I am down to about 20% resources free. I really need to be running three apps at once. Will another 128 MB Ram do for this? I eventually would like to have a total of 512 MB but I cannot afford that at this time. So my main question is: Has anyone used all four slots successfully on this board at 133Mhz. I have heard some people having trouble with this. Please advise.

 

[AndyHui]

Resources?

Resources are not dependent on the amount of RAM that you have under Win9x. It's the amount of free USER and GDI reources....the free system resources being the lower of the two. They are a set of 64KB heaps that are limited, and additional RAM will not help this problem.

Why not try Win2K? It does not have this limitation and would perform far better since you have so much RAM.

 

[drizzt99]

I have been debating getting WIN2k for some time. Everyone says not to because of all of my games. I am patient enough and (I think) knowledgeable enough to work around this. Maybe I will go for WIN 2000.

 

[KGB]

Andy's right.

WIN2K would better suit your graphics apps but if you're concerned about games, WIN2k isn't that bad but you could always dual-boot with 98.

 

[leeber303]

KGBMAN is giving good advice. I spend all day in PS and Illustrator and Win2k is so much better at handling things. Dual boot to Win98/ME for any games.