Micron PC133 ram

[Gunnyhwy1]

Building 1.2 TBird on KT7A w/sparkle 350 w ps. Is 128 meg of PC 133 7ns ram enough and appropriate for this setup?

 

[sohcrates]

my friend has an almost identical setup, and he runs 128 megs. but he runs win98. anyway, it runs fine for him.

what OS are you running?

ram is SOOOO cheap today, that i'd suggest at least 256 if you're really gonna have that powerful of a system..it just seems appropriate

 

[bacillus]

what OS are you going to be using?
for win2k best to have at least 256Mb!
128Mb is a good starter for win98/ME!

 

[Gunnyhwy1]

I'm running Win 98 and plan to continue with it. Presently run a PIII 600E @ 800 on abit BH6 and everything seems to be fine.

 

[Gunnyhwy1]

You say "good starter" I have always heard that anything above 128 meg was somewhat of a waste unless a person was doing extensive CAD work. I do play a few online games though which are pretty graphic intense.

 

[Maverick2002]

256....

 

[bozack]

just went from 128 (cas3 pc100 2x64 meg sticks)- 256(pc133 2x128 cas 2 mem) on a windows 98se box and notice almost no difference, kinda wasn't worth the money but wasnt that much anyway so I don't really care.

as far as I can tell, a win 98 machine maxes out at like 190 megs ram, anything more doesn't do much, didn't improve much in my system.

a win 95 machine maxes out at like just under 128 megs, so that would be more than enough

a w2000 machine and winME both make good use of 256, 128 is kinda skimpy for both those operating systems (one would think Me and 2K would be similar but Me has alot of crap ontop of it)

if your running 98 128 should be fine but if you plan on running something else in the near future then I would consider 256.

good luck

 

[Gunnyhwy1]

Thanks for the informative stuff. I'll stick with 98SE for now and may add more ram at a later date if I were to change OS's.

 

[Kingofcomputer]

get 2 256M, 512M is the best spot for win9x.

 

[nortexoid]

i just bought a bunch of ram and have all these different sized sticks around so i did some tinkering in win98SE...

128MB is good, but adding more definitely shows a noticeable increase in performance..
192MB was better, but i still noticed more improvement at 224MB..
256MB made no noticeable difference from 224MB...this is with the conservativeswapfileusage=1 line in the system.ini and teh vcache settings manually set with a fixed virtual memory swap file of 100MB...

thus, i'd say that buying one 256mb dimm (or two 128) would be the best, even under win98se..it makes more of a difference in win2k.

the best improvement is caching, obviously...if u open something, close it, and access it later, it opens it a lot quicker w/ 256mb over 128mb...

plus it's so damn cheap!...i just 128mb pc133 spectek for $53 canadian...

 

[Gunnyhwy1]

Just ordered a 256 meg stick of micron cas2 7.0ns ram for $97. Thanks for all the info!

 

[HannibalX]

Anymore than 96 Meg in a win 9.x machine actualy degrades performance, just FYI. The code doesn't knows how to manage the extra ram and wastes cpu cycles trying to figure out what to do with it.