Re: Need advice regarding CPU vs. RAM upgrade

From: Bob I (birelan_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/10/05 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 08:58:45 -0600

At this point in time, either purchase would be a waste of money. You
are not really using either sections of the hardware to the point of
"needing" an upgrade to realize a benefit from the expenditure. You
mention "in the long run", but with out knowing future purchases of
software, no one knows. You are better off saving the money and wait
till a "need arises", then you will "know what to spend it on".

ryan wrote:

> The system is actually new (2 mos to be exact). I will be running Word,
> Email, Web & Windows Media Player at the most.
>
> I'm just wondering if going up in processor or ram would benefit me in the
> long run.
>
> "William (Bill) Vaughn" <billvaRemoveThis@nwlink.com> wrote in message
> news:ekpjDMR9EHA.2112@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>
>>It seems to me that it depends on where you think the system is
>>bottlenecked. The 3.4GHz P4 waits at the same speed of the 2.0GHz. You
>>
> might
>
>>be disk bound or video bound so stepping up the CPU speed might not help
>>
> at
>
>>all. If you're running so many programs that you're swapping to disk then
>>
> a
>
>>faster hard disk would help, but more RAM would help more. What kind of
>>programs are you running? Is the system bogged down running
>>spamware/adware/spyware? If so, making the system faster just makes it
>>easier for this crap (a technical term) to run faster.
>>
>>--
>>____________________________________
>>William (Bill) Vaughn
>>Author, Mentor, Consultant
>>Microsoft MVP
>>www.betav.com
>>Please reply only to the newsgroup so that others can benefit.
>>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>>
> rights.
>
>>__________________________________
>>
>>"ryan" <ryan@email.com> wrote in message
>>news:e9iG$$Q9EHA.1408@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>
>>>I am needing advice on a upgrade in which obviously, I can only afford to
>>>do
>>>one instead of both.
>>>
>>>Currently I have an Intel P4 2.26 533FSB, 512 cache.
>>>
>>>I am torn between upgrading to P4 3.06 533FSB or adding 1 gig of RAM
>>>DDR333
>>>(PC2700).
>>>
>>>I already have 512MB, but would like to do either one. If you had a
>>>choice,
>>>which would you do and why?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

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