Wow! Win2k + 256MB RAM = awesome performance

[Sir Fredrick]

I thought Win2k had decent performance with my 128MB of RAM, but I just stuck another 128MB in there and I am amazed at the performance. Image editing is especially smooth. Too bad I only have this ram temporarily...

 

[xtreme2k]

i got win2k with 256 as well

kick ass

P3/700 oc to 818 only... need to get Orb

 

[TurboTurf]

Mah system is Intel Pentium3-800, PC100 256RAM..

But,,,, My system takes about 4minutes to boot.

 

[Train]

same setup here,

incredible performance, thumbs up win2k

 

[Sir Fredrick]

My system takes a while to boot too. That's what you get when you have an all SCSI system.
It's going to be hard to give this RAM back.

 

[Wizkid]

My system is all SCSI also and take about 60 seconds to boot (including logging in, running logon script, etc. -- time from power button to desktop without hour glass)

Athlon 800
256 MB PC133 CAS2
Cheetah 18XL
100BTX NIC
etc.

 

[Wizkid]

My system is all SCSI also and take about 60 seconds to boot (including logging in, running logon script, etc. -- time from power button to desktop without hour glass)

Athlon 800
256 MB PC133 CAS2
Cheetah 18XL
100BTX NIC
etc.

 

[Sir Fredrick]

Hmmm...how do you pull that off? It takes time for the SCSI card to scan the BUS...takes longer than it takes Win2k to boot

 

[Wizkid]

Only takes my SCSI card about 15 seconds to scan the bus. It's an adaptec 2940U2W

 

[KarsinTheHutt]

True enough - I ran a P!!! Katmai 500 MHz at work with w2k and 256 megs of ram, absolutely blew away crummy win 98se

 

[rc5]

Now here's the good news.

M$ Windows 2005 with 1GIG ram will run as fast as Win2k with 256MB ram.

(Ram) Size does matter.

 

[SUOrangeman]

True rc5, but 4GB RAM will cost $100 by then as well.

-SUO

 

[Sir Fredrick]

Wizkid, how many devices do you have hooked up? I have four and it's mostly my plextor that brings the boot time way down, it takes it a long time to initialize or whatever. I've never actually timed my bootup but it seems like a lot more than 60 seconds...

 

[stash]

Lucky bastard! My 6 new Dell Poweredge 2450 servers with dual P!!!600EB with 1 GB of ram take about 3-4 minutes to boot up each at work. On one its especially long, but thats because it has a powervault 120 robotic tape drive with 7 tape slots and a powervault 210s RAID array with 12 Ultra 160 18Gb IBM drives hooked up to it along with its standard internal 4 Ultra 160 9GB quantums. That machine has 5 scsi buses. Two internal on the Perc 3 si (with 128mb RAM) 2 external on the Perc 2 dc for the raid array (64mb RAM) and 1 external differential for the tape box.


hehe--I love my job!

 

[Sir Fredrick]

5 SCSI busses? Wow, that would allow for 75 devices (assuming they're all newer cards). Seems a bit overkill.

 

[rc5]

There's no way that 4GB ram will be under $100 in 5 years, maybe in 15-20 years if not longer. Actually, ram price is twice as expensive as it was one year ago. I could buy 64MB ram for $25 this time last year. Now it costs $60-$70.

 

[Hyperchronismos]

I suppose any operating system will have a great performance with 256MB of RAM (especially Linux).But what about running Win2k with 32MB of RAM?Even Windows 3.x should be faster.

 

[rc5]

With 256MB ram, you can boot and run win95 right off a ram drive. That's going to be lightning fast even for a M$ OS.

 

[NFS4]

Yep, Win2k just zips along for me with 256MB of RAM.

 

[Wizkid]

I have 5 devices...

Cheetah 18XL
Atlas 10K
Pioneer 303S
HP 9210
HP ScanJet 6200C

 

[stash]

The 5 scsi busses on my servers are not overkill, since the 3 scsi controllers are all different, and are needed to control all the various devices.