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Is it worth it to have 320MB RAM in a 233 Mhz Computer?

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Sybren

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My dad gave me his old Gateway Solo 9100 laptop, which is a 233 Mhz Pentium 1 MMX. It currently has 64MB RAM, and I plan on upgrading it to 320MB and running Windows 2000 Pro. Will the 233 Mhz processor be the bottleneck and make some of the RAM worthless? Would I be better off only upgrading the RAM to 192MB?

Thanks!
 
More RAM the better, but in your case, if you don't mind waiting 5 mins for bootup, then do go ahead and slap W2K on it. What you going to use W2K on a 233Mhz box for? If for server, slap Mandrake Linux on it. It's freaking easy to install too.
 

If the mobo do dims then you might be logical to up grade it to 128~192megs. If the mobo only support EDO/FM sims then you are out of luck.
 
Yes the mobo has three 144-pin SoDimm slots...

So would I see better performance with 320MB than 192MB? The reason I'm running Win2K is because I hate Windows 98... 🙂
 

You will see diff if the Cpu is faster. I saw a slight gain in speed on a work PII 266 puter that I bumped from 128 to 256megs. The only time you might see an advantage is when using very large speadsheet, power point, or have more than 5~6 threads open at the same time.
 
If you already have the RAM around collecting dust then you might as well throw it in there and use it. I wouldn't spend any real money on it though. It sounds like you are considering one stick of 256 Mb which doesn't cost very muich any way, so yuo could go ahead and do it. There were different types of DIMMs for a while, so it is really not certain that they are PC66 or PC100 DIMMs just because they look the same.
 
If that laptop is based on an Intel TX chipset (it probably is), it will slow it down. The TX can only cache 64 meg of ram. If you put more in, you will be running in un cached memory space.
 
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