Win 200 and Ram? How much?

[Gamerz]

I am running W2K pro and have 256 megs. Considering how cheap ram is today, would it be a good idea to pick up another 128 or 256? Will I see a proformance jump?

Thanks

 

[Noriaki]

It can't hurt. Win2k has a very well coded memory manager.

But at this point it probably won't really help either.

To get Win2k to go over 256MB I had to run Diablo2 and Quake3 at the same time (both very memory hungry games). Even then I wasn't over the 384MB mark.

I plan to jump on the DDR train sometime this year...so I don't want to go past my 256MB PC133...but if you plan to stay at PC133 for the foreseeable future I'd get 512MB. It can't hurt, and you'll need it eventually.

 

[forouza1]

Sweet spot for win2k is 512 ram. With that much ram some people turn off virtual ram.

 

[impulse]

I really havent had a bad time with 196 MB of ram in win2k

 

[cheapbastich]

I went to 512mb in w98, still kept freezing, etc.....
then installed win2k dual boot last week- I am truly amazed at the difference,
win2k only fails me when burning a cd and watching some mpeg files (they "skip&quot,
other than that it rocks so far..........seems to love the memory (I ordered crucial
with the price cuts, when it was 113 bucks, sigh)

 

[danielshoes]

I use W2K with 64 Mb and it is not sluggish. The startup is an eternety (better with at least 128), but it is useable after boot.

I can´t see the need for more than 256 Mb. Waste of money, for me.

 

[S0me1X]

I like 256... it is a cheap upgrade anyway.

 

[ChrisIsBored]

My motherboard maxes out at 256 MB per slot, 4 slots.. total = 1Ghz RAM.

I've had no trouble with Win2k and pretty much never reboot unless i'm installing something new in it.

 

[igiveup]

What you will need depends on what you want to run on your computer. Gaming? You MIGHT benefit with some games (Unreal Tournament comes to mind) if you jump up to 384. Much more won't help a whole lot. If you (for whatever reason) want to run a database or host a forum like this you would probably want to go with 512 as a minimum and more like 1.5gb as a real number. Windows 2000 Pro can handle 4 gb of RAM so you could add as much as you like really. Enjoy!