upgrade in RAM

[Bakala2000]

If I upgrade my RAM from 128mb to 384MB will i notice a difference. Some people say no. I need a larger number of inputs.

[endoalpha]

Originally posted by Bakala2000:
If I upgrade my RAM from 128mb to 384MB will i notice a difference. Some people say no. I need a larger number of inputs.

ummm when booting you should see the memory count go to 384MB instead of 128MB
oh yea... also you will be able to run more progs at the same time, sometimes referred to as 'multitasking'... i hear it's a really cool buzzword too.... use it a lot to impress your boss


[This message has been edited by endoalpha (edited 16 December 2000).]

[ph34r]

Depends on what apps you are running. VMware? Oh yeah. Quake2/3? Maybe. Email and web browsing? Not likely.

Do you often find that your swapfile is being used (for more than a couple of megs for more than a couple of seconds)? If so, a RAM upgrade will help.

[Mr Hatt]

I went from 128 to 384 w/Drake 7.2 and it runs really sweet. I haven't seen Gkrellm tell me that I have used a swap file at all, and I have even compiled Wine without swapping to the drive. I own the Linux versions of SOF and Quake3, and the load times got much quicker. Linux is good with memory management, the vfat (just for Half Life I swear) portion of my hard drive reacted much better to the memory upgrade cause Windoze memory management sucks.

[Bakala2000]

Does Wine do a good job cause there are some stuff i need to install on my computer?