Re: RAM size

On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 11:57:01 -0700, Bob <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi Ken, not sure if this is the case.
Please see my new reply to Marx404 for more on this.
thanks for your reply...


You're welcome, but I'll repeat that 1GB is overkill for the great
majority of people running XP. Unless you run particularly memory
hungry applications (and I don't see anything in your reply to Marx404
that suggests that you are), there's no reason to expect that that
much memory would increase your performance.



"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 07:28:02 -0700, Bob <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hello,
I kept getting these errors in Windows xp, rebooting and blue screen etc.
I found out my 512k memory card was bad, so i was only left with the 256 k
card.
so i bought 2 kingston pc2700 ddr333 (crucial.com says this is the size that
will work), but actually received 2 pc2100 ddr266 (kingston.com says this is
the size that will work)
whatver the case may e they should both work. Windows says I am running 1
gig like normal, but the speed doesnt seem faster than the 768 i was running
before.


There should be no surprise there. Despite the many people who
continually repeat "the more memory the better," that's true only up
to a point. Once you have enough RAM so that the system is no longer
paging, any additional RAM does next to nothing for you. At what point
that happens depends on what apps you run, but for most people running
common business applications under Windows XP, that point is somewhere
between 256-512MB, and except for those doing something like editing
videos or large photographic images, more RAM than that is largely
wasted.

Even the 768MB you used to use was probably more than you needed.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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