Re: General Questions about RAM

Less than 512MB of ram is not enough. Even with an older system using
Win98/ME. But if you are using 98 and get 512M+ ram then there is a small
registry addittion you need to make. Check MS knowledge base.

"Grant Schoep" <matobinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Xns96C8161EF6948matobinderidcommcom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > My concerns are:
> > -Does this info mean I can install either SDRAM or DDR ram
> > -I cannot find anywhere that has DDR at 133Mhz (PC2100) only SDRAM
> > -Can I buy higher speed ram eg PC3200 and it still be able to work?
> > -If I buy a stick of 512mb will it work together with the already
> > installed 256mb I have (totalling 748mb) - which I'm hoping for due to
> > my budget but have read where it's better to have the ram modules
> > installed in pair (ie chucking out the 256 and buy 2 lots of 512
> > rather than buying a 1gb stick
> >
> > I would appreciate any help on this thanks
> > Deb
> >
> >
>
>
> What OS are you running. To see if you really NEED more memory(I'd bet you
> do but still try this...) if you run NT,2000, or XP. Reboot your computer
> (or don't...) load Task Manager. You really don't NEED to have this
> running, Now, start all your apps and work out a normal "days" work. Of
> course, you don't need to spend 8 hours doing stuff, just do a few normal
> things. Then look in task manager, and see what your "peak" memory usage
> was, its in the Performance Tab. Commit Charge box... note names could be
> different, I'm just looking at my XP box.
>
> I have 512megs, with what I do, I have never seen my peak memory usage go
> about 512. In this case, adding memory would do NO good. Ok... there is
> some debate, that if I was close to maxing at 512, it would be paging alot
> to disk to "free up" memory. But I don't really know much about that...
> just read about it.


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