Re: Development System Memory

Fred,

I run a lot of applications at the same time and I have both a desktop and a
laptop that each have 1gig of memory. You will always have increased
performance with more memory, but seeing that performance increase will
mostly depend on how many applications you run at the same time.

The more memory you have the less data needs to be stored on the hard drive
in the page file. But if you aren't using all your memory now because you
only keep one or two applications running at a time then I doubt you'd see
much more performance gain. However if, like me, you are running a
development environment where your machine is running VS2005, SQL Server,
and IIS, there are quite a few applications running already and then most of
us run Outlook, Word, A graphic editor like fireworks and/or photoshop, plus
any number of other programs at the same time. If that's the case with you
getting to 1gig would probably give you even better performance.

--
Sincerely,

S. Justin Gengo, MCP
Web Developer / Programmer

www.aboutfortunate.com

"Out of chaos comes order."
Nietzsche
"Fred Nelson" <fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OmJ%23puq7FHA.1000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi:
>
> I know that this is a hardware question however it involves VS 2005
> which I use to develop web apps in C#.
>
> My machine is Windows XP with 512mb of RAM. I recently upgraded it from
> 256mb and the performance is fantastic!
>
> My question is if I upgraded it again (say to 1GB) would I have another
> significant performance increase? (I could take it as high as 4GB).
>
> If anyone has a recommendation I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Fred


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