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Comments on having more RAM than CPU power.

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de8212

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I have a Celeron 500MHz cpu and 512 MB RAM (two 256MB DIMMS). I am running win 2K and my I have the celeron overclocked to 563MHz. SHould I adjust my virtual memory/swap file or whatever? If so, what do you all suggest and how do I do it?
Thanks.
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more RAM than CPU power.

First of all, there's no such thing as having more RAM power or more CPU power. CPU clock speed and RAM amounts are totally unrelated.

Secondly, most of the time your swap file should be set at 1.5 the size of your RAM, or in your case 768 MB. However since you have quite a lot of RAM and you might be low on HD space, I suggest you try something a little lower and experiment with it. Try 256 MB for your swapfile and work your way up.
 
Thanks BFG10K. I didn't mean they were directly related. I probably didn't word it as well as I should have. It just seems most of the time people have less MB of Ram that they do MHz of cpu. Anyway, how do I adjust this in Win2K. I remeber seeing it in 98se but that was a long time ago.
BTW if it matters I am not low on hd space. I've got about 30GB free.

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What I suggest is opening up every application you use, then checking to see how big your swap file has grown. Add another 50MB-100MB to that total and make that your minimum swap file size, that way you're pretty much guaranteed that no matter what you're running the OS won't need to resize your swap (learned this from tweaking PC to run Diablo 2 smoother).
 
To change your swap file in Win2k go My computer\properties\advanced\performance options\change then enter the limits you want
 
If your running Win2k how much ram do you usually have to have before its ok to just get rid of the swap file all together?
 
I figured out that the best way to deal with your swap is to run all your programs, tjek how big it is, (done by finding a file in the root dir. called pagefile.sys or something like that, win386.swp i think it is in w2k...
right now it's probably 384mb, and when you have all your progs opened, it with grow, let's say 476mb,
you set your min. to 473 and your max to 479. actually i don't think there is a max in w2k. in w98 it works, just set your min. to 473mb then.. another thing, it wi´ll all go faster if you leave your swap file on a scsi HD
 
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