Hi Eric,
Based on what you've described, I don't think you would find a significant
increase in speed. Most folks can get by fine with 512 MB of RAM. If you
were editing large photo, video, or audio files, then you *might* see a
rather significant gain in speed.
For the "average" user, KGB is way overkill. I originally ran this box
with XP Pro with 256MB of memory, and it ran fine. I maxed out this old
mobo by adding another 128 MB, and now have 384 MB. I haven't seen any
difference in speed--but then again, I spend the majority of my time just
perusing the NG's. Not very RAM intensive.
--
HTH,
Curt
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| Thank everyone very much for suggestions
|
| I get 1GB DDR RAM installed. Does it mean that 400 MB RAM is currently
used?
| because there is 600MB RAM available, which represents the amount of free
| memory that is available for use. Currently, I intend to install more RAM
for
| faster performance. Based on above memory interpretation, I think there is
no
| point to upgrade into 2GB DDR RAM for my computer, because there is 600
RAM
| available, does it mean that upgrading to 2GB DDR RAM would not get any
| faster on performance?
| Does anyone have any suggestion?
| Thank everyone very much for any suggesitons
| Eric
|
|
| "Tim Slattery" wrote:
|
| >
| > >In task manager,
| > >Physical Memory: 1046956 = 1 GB
| > >Avaiable: 601332 Does it mean I get 600MB RAM available to be used?
| >
| > The figures that TaskMan displays are in kilobytes, so 601332 does
| > mean 600MB.
| >
| > >System Fast Memory: 703224 What is this memory about?
| >
| > There's nothing by that name on my machine, maybe you mean "System
| > Cache". TaksMan's help file entry for "Physical Memory" says this:
| >
| > <quote>
| > The total physical memory, also called RAM, installed on your
| > computer. Available represents the amount of free memory that is
| > available for use. The System Cache shows the current physical memory
| > used to map pages of open files.
| > </quote>
| >
| > Note that the "Total" will be the amount of RAM your system can
| > actually access, not necessarily the amount installed. If you're
| > running a 32-bit system and have 4GB RAM installed you won't be able
| > to use all of it because some address space must be used for video
| > memory, BIOS, etc. See
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt/RAM.html
| >
| > --
| > Tim Slattery
| > MS MVP(DTS)
| > (e-mail address removed)
| >
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt
| >
