Re: upgrading memory

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On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:47:07 -0700, mooky <mooky9669@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Aug 12, 10:53 am, Bruce Chambers <bchamb...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
mooky wrote:

I did find info on the motherboard and that the only jumpers are for
the CMOS settings. Also wanted to know if I would notice much
difference by adding the full gig(2 x 512) from just using the stick
of 512 in my P3 1ghz machine?

Again, you'll need to check with the motherboard manufacturer (or maybe
Crucial) for its maximum capacity, but I'm not at all sure that such an
old motherboard would even support a gigabyte of RAM. Even if it does,
you're not likely to see much of a performance gain, as the P-III CPU
will be a huge "bottle-neck." This being the case, I wouldn't waste the
money on more RAM than is necessary, at this time.

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thee maximum it can support is a gig. I do run a lot of apps at a time
on occasion and wasn't sure if I would notice a lot of difference. I
already went to crucial's site as I mentioned before. also, what do
you mean by huge "bottle-neck"...if I don't notice a difference, at
least I'll have a stick of 512 for backup



Although running several apps at a time *seems* like it means that you
need or would benefit from more RAM, it isn't necessarily true.

Usually when people say they are running a bunch of apps at once, they
mean they have that bunch of apps *open*. But an app that's open and
not actively being used doesn't have anywhere near the same impact on
performance as one that's actively in use.

Let's say you have Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook all
open at once. Sounds like they use a lot of RAM, right?

No, wrong (usually). If, for example, you are actively editing a file
in Word, and the others are just sitting around waiting to be used,
the RAM they used to use quickly gets paged out to the page file, and
only Word needs to remain in memory. So the performance penalty of
having them all open but not in use is actually tiny.

In fact, it's rare that more that one major app is actually in use at
the same time. How much RAM you need is much more closely associated
with the *biggest* app you run, than with how many. If, for example,
you edit large photographic images with Photoshop, you can probably
benefit from having lots more RAM than most people need. Very few
people will notice any real performance improvement in XP by having
more than 512MB, *unless* they do photo or video editing.

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