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

 

[jinsonxu]

Depends on what apps you run. But ram is never enough!

Performance hits usually results when the particular MB hits a limit in it's caching capacity. I remember the VX and TX MBs had a limit of 64MB. Newer mombos shouldn't have problems on 256Mb.

A note though, i was running WinME and found nearly no difference between 256Mb and 384Mb. Win2K would love more.

As for getting higher fps for the flight sim, i'm not sure. Try running system monitor in the background to find out how much ram that game takes. If it's reduced to disk access, more ram would help abit.

 

[Grminalac]

I suppose it couldn't hurt you can pick up memory cheap now, I suppose it would be wise to purchase while the price is down. On the otherhand you might want to consider buying a Voodoo 5. I didn't have enough money to invest in a new card, but couldn't pass up one for 152 shipped, other people have said you could get one for 137, but it requirted some manuvering. check out www.bigbigsavings.com they have coupons there. Overly I am not extremely impressed with the card, but I do like the way the AA makes my older games look, especially flight sims, and they run very smoothly.

 

[jinsonxu]

Did you try overclocking your TNT2? Is it the standard, M64 or the Ultra?