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2GB of RAM
10-06-2008 12:25 PM
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XP SP2 currently on 1GB of RAM, If I bought a bundle of 2x1GB that would fill 3 slots and give me around 3 GB of RAM.
I remember being stunned by the improved performance of moving from 512 MB to 1GB but now things seem to take a while to load at start up. and things like I Tunes take forever to get going as well (as for SIMS2 you have to leave it for ages - or so my daughter tells me).
Re: 2GB of RAM
10-06-2008 12:29 PM
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It really depends on whether you are running out of ram with all your normal apps running.
If you look on the performance tab of ask manager what does it say for Physical memory (k) and Commit charge (k).
Re: 2GB of RAM
10-06-2008 1:05 PM
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Re: 2GB of RAM
10-06-2008 1:11 PM
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I assume from your post that when you went from 512MB to 1GB you replaced the 512MB stick and didn't add a second 512MB stick.
However you need to check your motherboard/processor - does it support dual channel memory.
If it does then filling the two dual channel slots with matching sticks will make a big difference and 3GB would be a total waste.
If it doesn't support dual channel then I wouldn't bother as any improvement will be marginal and certainly wouldn't make much difference to boot times.
Re: 2GB of RAM
10-06-2008 1:49 PM
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I have 4 slots and the machine came with 512 in 1 of them. I added another 512 to make the 1GB and a big difference.
Can you help me out and spell out whats what and how I might check.
Done the old CClean BTW
Re: 2GB of RAM
10-06-2008 1:58 PM
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Report back on this during normal use.
If you don't know how, ask again.
Re: 2GB of RAM
10-06-2008 2:52 PM
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Quote XP SP2 currently on 1GB of RAM, If I bought a bundle of 2x1GB that would fill 3 slots and give me around 3 GB of RAM
If you already have two slots filled then adding 2 x 1GB of ram would fill all four slots.
If you advise which motherboard and processor you have that would enable us to determine whether you are running dual channel or not.
Re: 2GB of RAM
10-06-2008 4:39 PM
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there is a difference, especially when gaming and using processor intensive tasks such as ripping video and playing with gimp.
i don't know what difference you will see on windows, but it sure perked up my linux os. boot tends to be faster and there is less use of swap (pagefile, or virtual memory).
just making less use of virtual memory helps as you are not thrashing the hard drive so much.
Re: 2GB of RAM
10-06-2008 5:54 PM
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Quote from: Oldjim 2GB may well give an improvement but 3GB probably won't
I read that to mean that 2GB will be noticeably quicker than 1GB (or 512K) but that 3GB will not be noticeably quicker than 2GB -- have I understood correctly?
(This thread is interesting to me because I have a 1GB XP laptop which would cost £60 to upgrade to 4GB but only £30 to go to 2GB)
Re: 2GB of RAM
10-06-2008 6:07 PM
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I have 1 machine that seems to have 4 slots (in pairs blue and black) each pair has a stick of 512MB in it on that machine the Commit data is
Total 593000
Limit 2518000
Peak 946000
The older machine is the one I upgraded before but it only has 2 slots (not 4 like I thought) each with 512MB in now
That reads
Total 887000
limit 1875000
peak 1130
This is much more complicated than I imagined
Thanks for your patience (must be age)
Re: 2GB of RAM
10-06-2008 6:13 PM
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Yes you have understood my unclear post correctly
Quote from: paulh I read that to mean that 2GB will be noticeably quicker than 1GB (or 512K) but that 3GB will not be noticeably quicker than 2GB -- have I understood correctly?
Re: 2GB of RAM
10-06-2008 6:19 PM
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Quote from: the I have 1 machine that seems to have 4 slots (in pairs blue and black) each pair has a stick of 512MB in it on that machine the Commit data is
Total 593000
Limit 2518000
Peak 946000
That doesn't need any more memory. It has 1GB, is using 60% of it and has never used it all.
Bit like my "mainstream system" actually - very similar figures.
Re: 2GB of RAM
10-06-2008 6:19 PM
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It is very likely that your machine with two coloured slots is designed to run dual channel.
If I am correct your best bet is to add two more 512MB sticks giving 2GB in total. You could add 2 x 1GB giving 3GB in total but I doubt that you would see much improvement over 2GB total.
Before going too far I would go to this site and get it to recommend the upgrade for your computer. http://www.crucial.com/uk/index.aspx?cpe=CHAWKuk It will even scan your system if you wish.
Just to add - the only reason I would consider an upgrade is if you are using something like Photoshop for manipulating digital photographs.
Re: 2GB of RAM
10-06-2008 6:21 PM
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Quote from: the The older machine is the one I upgraded before but it only has 2 slots (not 4 like I thought) each with 512MB in now
That reads
Total 887000
limit 1875000
peak 1130
Presumably you meant peak 1130000?
That's a bit tighter at nearly 90%, but probably OK for now. If replacing all the memory, to give 2*1GB, is cheap enough I'd think about doing it.
Re: 2GB of RAM
10-06-2008 6:23 PM
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