Will upgrade from 256MB to 384MB of RAM incrase performance a lot?

[j@cko]

Under both Win98se/win2K?

 

[yiwonder]

IMO I don't think that you'll really see much of a difference. I've never tried this though, so I could be wrong.

 

[Tsaico]

I tried it and found it did not... I did get better scores under most benchmarking tools, but nothing to brag about... I think 256 is fine for a win98se or winme box.

 

[j@cko]

So, I guess I'll save for the DDR-RAM then.

 

[Zucchini]

rarely for most uses.. but a bit for large picture scanning/photoshop

 

[ledzepp98]

zucchini (and others) is right...with the exception of digital video/photo editing where quantity is king, 256megs is all you need. for anyone else readong with only 128megs, i DEFINATELY recommend going to 256megs, but more than that doesn't really help. i have 384megs and if i take out a 128meg stick i don't really notice a difference.

 

[MulLa]

Yer I experimented with 384mb before. Perormance wise I can hardly notice any difference. But decided that my server is struggling a bit with only 128mb left ^^ So I decided to give it back to her ^^

 

[novice]

With Win 98SE, I didn't notice any gain going from 256 to 384. But since I had the extra DIMM, I figured it would be safer in the box than stored in a drawer. (3 Boys in the house between 9 and 14 years old.....) So there it stays until I find a better home for it. (Hopefully in a slot A motherboard with at least a gig T-Bird )
Chuck

 

[Fastball]

I just upgraded from 128 to 384 and didn't notice hardly any difference. Maybe a slight difference in some games, but nothing major. I'm running WinME. I'm about to build a second system and will probably put 128 of it in there.

 

[Shmorq]

The only thing I noticed going from 256 to 384 of RAM was that when I looked inside my case, all my DIMMS were occupied.

 

[V]

I went from 128mb to 256mb and load times in games have decreased a lot. I don't think 384mb is needed.

 

[loosbrew]

i only really notice a difference in photoshop, but other than that i dont notice anything.

loosbrew

 

[bigbootydaddy]

if you do feel it, youll feel it in windows2k