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Paisley
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I wasn't sure whether this belonged in hardware or applications so I thought I would put it here since it has a direct impact on the applications I run.
I seem to be having a severe ram memory problem that I feel could be cured by adding another chip or two. Finances are not that great now so I need to know exactly what I could get by with and still have everything run fairly smooth. I also remember reading once that too much ram could actually slow your system down even more but this was under Win98 or ME, I think.
Here is the specs for the computer in question:
Gigabyte MoBo (GA-6VXC7-4X-P)
900 mhz Intel Celeron Processor (Want to upgrade to 1ghz but will ask that on the hardware board - have processor, just can't figure out how to get the 900mhz proc off this particular board.
384 meg ram (256 meg chip and 128 meg chip both PC133)
32 meg Video Card (ATI All in Wonder Pro AGP)
DVDrom
CDBurner (Iomega Zip 650)
10 gig hard drive
80 gig hard drive
Linksys NIC Card networked to Linksys 4-port router which is connecting three more computers to cable internet.
Ninety-five percent of the time I am running Edonkey 2000 in the background as well as Zone Alarm Pro, Hewlett Packard Print Center, Norton's NAV antivirus program, and at least 1 or 2 browser windows. When I am not running a browser window, I am watching a movie using Power DVD or listening to music using FreeAmp. FreeAmp seems to use much less resources than Windows Media Player. I have The Playa from Divx but it seems to eat up resources as well and it doesn't play as well as Power DVD.
If memory serves me correctly, the motherboard in this machine will hold 1.5 gig in memory, (ie 3 (or 4 - again can't remember off the top of my head) slots of 512 meg ram each slot.
I could probably get another 256 meg ram chip, bring the total ram to 640 meg. Do you know if this would make a huge impact?
I have tried running MemMonster 2002 and found it to constantly be slowing the system down even further until I manually recover ram. A few times this has actually froze the machine and required a reboot.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Paisley
I seem to be having a severe ram memory problem that I feel could be cured by adding another chip or two. Finances are not that great now so I need to know exactly what I could get by with and still have everything run fairly smooth. I also remember reading once that too much ram could actually slow your system down even more but this was under Win98 or ME, I think.
Here is the specs for the computer in question:
Gigabyte MoBo (GA-6VXC7-4X-P)
900 mhz Intel Celeron Processor (Want to upgrade to 1ghz but will ask that on the hardware board - have processor, just can't figure out how to get the 900mhz proc off this particular board.
384 meg ram (256 meg chip and 128 meg chip both PC133)
32 meg Video Card (ATI All in Wonder Pro AGP)
DVDrom
CDBurner (Iomega Zip 650)
10 gig hard drive
80 gig hard drive
Linksys NIC Card networked to Linksys 4-port router which is connecting three more computers to cable internet.
Ninety-five percent of the time I am running Edonkey 2000 in the background as well as Zone Alarm Pro, Hewlett Packard Print Center, Norton's NAV antivirus program, and at least 1 or 2 browser windows. When I am not running a browser window, I am watching a movie using Power DVD or listening to music using FreeAmp. FreeAmp seems to use much less resources than Windows Media Player. I have The Playa from Divx but it seems to eat up resources as well and it doesn't play as well as Power DVD.
If memory serves me correctly, the motherboard in this machine will hold 1.5 gig in memory, (ie 3 (or 4 - again can't remember off the top of my head) slots of 512 meg ram each slot.
I could probably get another 256 meg ram chip, bring the total ram to 640 meg. Do you know if this would make a huge impact?
I have tried running MemMonster 2002 and found it to constantly be slowing the system down even further until I manually recover ram. A few times this has actually froze the machine and required a reboot.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Paisley