Re: Increased RAM but see no or little speed difference
- From: Sandeep Kulkarni <sandeepnk84@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 27 Apr 2007 03:46:51 -0700
On Apr 27, 3:26 pm, Tom Porterfield <tppor...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sandeep Kulkarni wrote:
Hello All,
I am running a WinXP SP2 on 1.9GHz CPU. When Windows was installed,
there was 256MB RAM available. Recently I added 512MB RAM to the
computer. So now there is total 768 MB running at 266MHz FSB. That is
the max FSB my motherboard (845 GVAD2) and CPU combination can
support.
But then I don't see much difference in performance. So what may be
the reason for this? Do I need to reinstall Windows to take effect of
hardware change or there may be some other solution?
Thank you,
Sandeep
Whether or not you see a speed difference depends on how you use your
PC. If you do not use a lot of memory intensive applications, and you
were not seeing a lot of extra page file usage with 256 MB, then there
is little reason to think that adding more RAM would increase
performance by a significant amount.
--
Tom Porterfield
Tom,
Though I don't use memory intensive applications, but I felt the
performance for that amount of RAM to be lower than expected.
Also according to several posts in newsgroup, it is better to run
WinXP with 512MB of memory. So I added the memory expecting a increase
in performance.
Even while using Windows Explorer for browsing folders/files without
running any other application there was noticeable delay. Only thing
running in background is AVG Antivirus Free 7. Now after adding the
memory still there is delay. As this computer is not connected to
network, so there should have been noticeable difference in browsing.
But I am unable to see that.
I will try to follow suggestions give by earlier posters. And will
post back my comments.
Thank you,
Sandeep
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