Re: Increased RAM but see no or little speed difference
- From: "Poprivet" <poprivet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:06:22 -0400
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
How much you'll notice your increased RAM depends on a lot of things. For
instance, it -might- make IE open a tad faster but probably not noticeably
so, and as far as surfing, email etc. goes, there will be no difference
since those require no power of any kind to speak of, RAM in particular.
The internet is the bottleneck there.
Running one program at a time, probably also little noticecable
difference.
But, any video work or several programs open and working all at the same
time, you should see a pretty fair improvement. Excel with a lot of
formulae and macros would be much improved, but not normal excel displays of
a few cells at a time. Moving around in large Word documents would
considerably improved, but normal document of a ten or so pages; probably
little noticeable difference.
So, little to no speed difference may indeed be entirely to be expected.
For now; but not necessarily later when you have more need of more RAM.
Don't despair, because if/when you need that extra RAM, it'll be there for
you and you'll probably have avoided going thru the aggravation down the
road.
Now, all that said, there are a LOT of other things that can make XP run
slowly. That's another subject on its own, but I'm sure if you want, you'll
be able to get lots of suggestions for that too by just asking.
HTH
Pop`
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