Re: New installation of Window's xp Home edition. Computer is running

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In news:3njuvcF1tof5U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
D.Currie <dmbcurrie.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> typed:

> I find that ram is vastly more important than CPU speed. One of
> my
> computers is an 800Mhz Duron with 512Mb of ram, and it's quite
> peppy
> running XP pro.


That's definitely true, but only up to a point. Your computer is
probably much faster than, say, a 1.4MHz processor with 128MB of
RAM.

However, unless you run very memory-hungry applications, you've
probably reached the point where more RAM would do you little or
no good. Changing to a faster processor at this point would
benefit you more than adding more RAM.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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