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Walter E.
How can I determine if I might benefit from additional RAM?
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tamerlane
You could tell this group the applications you run (the more powerful,
demanding ones).
What you need is totally dependent on what you intend to do, even though
memory is cheap.
demanding ones).
What you need is totally dependent on what you intend to do, even though
memory is cheap.
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mary
more ram memory is always handy and speeds things up.
providing you have the space for new slots you check with
computer manuf (compaq-etc.) to see what your computer
can handle. go to these sites.
www.kingston.com
www.pny.com
use memory config tools at these sites.
you will need manuf/model/etc computer info.
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providing you have the space for new slots you check with
computer manuf (compaq-etc.) to see what your computer
can handle. go to these sites.
www.kingston.com
www.pny.com
use memory config tools at these sites.
you will need manuf/model/etc computer info.
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M. Rajesh
Hi,
You can determine if you have heavy applications that are
performing slowly, or opening slowly or the screen
flickers a lot and you have difficuility in opening a
simple application like Internet explorer or notepad.
Also go through the requirements for each software that
you have installed on your computer and add the AMT of
RAM required plus 256 MB for win xp. If you have less RAM
than the required RAM then you need more RAM.
Regards
M. Rajesh
www.winxpsolution.com
You can determine if you have heavy applications that are
performing slowly, or opening slowly or the screen
flickers a lot and you have difficuility in opening a
simple application like Internet explorer or notepad.
Also go through the requirements for each software that
you have installed on your computer and add the AMT of
RAM required plus 256 MB for win xp. If you have less RAM
than the required RAM then you need more RAM.
Regards
M. Rajesh
www.winxpsolution.com
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GSV Three Minds in a Can
from the said:How can I determine if I might benefit from additional RAM?
Download the 'page file monitoring' tool from
http://www.dougknox.com/index.html, winxp utilities. If it shows you
page file is > than about 100MB, you may benefit from more RAM. Or just
watch your disk activity light - it'll flash like crazy when you start
hitting the pagefile a lot.
If you aren't using virtual memory (paging) you won't usually see much
gain from more RAM.
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Will Denny
Hi
It might help if stated how much RAM you have onboard ATM. Anything <256Mb is unacceptable. 256Mb is 'bearable'. 512Mb is probably OK for most apps. 1Gb is a lot better. Although the performance doesn't depend just on the amount RAM onboard. Other considerations are:
The amount of RAM on your graphics card.
CPU speed.
What are you trying to speed up?
Will
It might help if stated how much RAM you have onboard ATM. Anything <256Mb is unacceptable. 256Mb is 'bearable'. 512Mb is probably OK for most apps. 1Gb is a lot better. Although the performance doesn't depend just on the amount RAM onboard. Other considerations are:
The amount of RAM on your graphics card.
CPU speed.
What are you trying to speed up?
Will
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Alex Nichol
Walter said:How can I determine if I might benefit from additional RAM?
See www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm and use one of the tools linked to
find out how much actual use of the pagefile you are making. If this is
only say 10 or 20 MB (the system is inclined to use that much whatever
you do) then more RAM will do nothing for you. If it is significant,
then the amount used will be a good guide to how much more would pay
off. Eg if it shows 200 MB of use then a 256 MB module would be the
addition to make
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Gordon Burgess-Parker
Alex said:See www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm and use one of the tools linked to
find out how much actual use of the pagefile you are making. If this
is only say 10 or 20 MB (the system is inclined to use that much
whatever you do) then more RAM will do nothing for you. If it is
significant, then the amount used will be a good guide to how much
more would pay off. Eg if it shows 200 MB of use then a 256 MB
module would be the addition to make
I must be a bit dense, I can't see any links to tools on that page?
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Ken Blake
In
You can benefit from additional RAM only if you usually use the
page file significantly.
Download Bill james page File usage monitor from
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_p.htm Run it and monitor how
large page file *usage* gets. If that number is usually
substantial (more tan 100MB or so) more memory will decrease page
file usage and improve your performance. Otherwise it will be
wasted.
Walter E. said:How can I determine if I might benefit from additional RAM?
You can benefit from additional RAM only if you usually use the
page file significantly.
Download Bill james page File usage monitor from
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_p.htm Run it and monitor how
large page file *usage* gets. If that number is usually
substantial (more tan 100MB or so) more memory will decrease page
file usage and improve your performance. Otherwise it will be
wasted.
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Edward W. Thompson
I guess you said it. You must be a bit dense. Read the page again.
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Gordon Burgess-Parker
Edward said:I guess you said it. You must be a bit dense. Read the page again.
Ah, got it. Not overly obvious, is it?
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Alex Nichol
Gordon said:I must be a bit dense, I can't see any links to tools on that page?
@how big should the page fie be section, second para from end.
'Download here' for a script version, or 'Doug Knox's site' for a
compiled one
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