How much is to much?

[airis2001]

I am thing of getting an addational 128 stick of ram for my system. I have 128 in so far, should i bother to do this? I know there is a point of deminishing returns and that i can accually slow my system down with to much. Am I at that point?
I have:
PIII 450@518
asus p2bf mobo
asus v3800 deleux v/c w/32 mb and tnt2 chip
windows 98se

I am heavy into fight sims, MS flight sim 200 espically, and this is very taxing, and want to get better frame rates, but can not afford a new v/c or massive upgrade to a new chip

 

[Moving Target]

Until a week ago I would have said anything over 128 was a waste. But I was playing Deus EX and it was getting a little choppy, so I put in another 64, and it seemed to help. So now I'm not sure.

Although if I was in your position, I think I would upgrade my Vid card instead. You could spend around $125 for a GeForce MX or Radeon (they might not be that cheap yet, but close) and you would see alot more increase in performance than with the mem upgrade.

 

[SUOrangeman]

With the price of RAM now and no intentions to get on a DDR or RDRAM rift, get the additional 128MB NOW!

I call it "futureproofing."

-SUO

 

[CHiMPBizKiT]

256MB of RAM is pretty much all you need for anything. There's got to be a good reason if you go over 256 -- haha maybe because RAM prices are so darn cheap~. Other than that, it won't hurt to get that extra 128.

 

[Noriaki]

I had 128MB
I put in another 256MB
(so I have 384MB now)

Why?
well for one RAM is damn cheap now and I'm "future proofing" and win2k is NOT happy at 128MB.

Get yourself some more RAM now while it's cheap. Unless you intend to jump on the DDR bandwagon right away (I don't, I intend to wait like a year).

 

[subhuman]

It depends on what you do. If you just play games, word process, browse the web, check your email, 256 is a nice number. If you work with media -- large .WAV files, AVI files, or large PhotoShop files, then the more RAM the better. I use a couple of large programs (Logic, Pulsar, VisualStudio), and adding another 256megs improved my performance noticably, everything loaded quicker, changing programs is quicker. Of course I have my virtual memory all tweaked properly...