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this is how mine looks.
also, find yourself another hard drive to put your swap file on. currently i am running a decent 80 gig hard drive, and i dropped the swap file on a crappy 6.4 gig, and noticed an immediate and very large speed improvement. and that is just with an old crappy hard drive. what could one of them shiney new ones do?
btw, i am running windows 2k, which isnt as bad of a memory hogg as xp is. you should be able to work with 512 meg of ram, but 1 gig should be good also.. but definitely look into getting a second hard drive.
this is how mine looks.
also, find yourself another hard drive to put your swap file on. currently i am running a decent 80 gig hard drive, and i dropped the swap file on a crappy 6.4 gig, and noticed an immediate and very large speed improvement. and that is just with an old crappy hard drive. what could one of them shiney new ones do?
btw, i am running windows 2k, which isnt as bad of a memory hogg as xp is. you should be able to work with 512 meg of ram, but 1 gig should be good also.. but definitely look into getting a second hard drive.
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Originally Posted by big_news_1
When you're talking RAM, is it true that your machine may run faster with 2 - 512 sticks rather than 1 - 1GB stick? I've heard it'* faster because the system can access both sticks at once instead of only having the bandwidth of one stick. Is this true? If so Nate, you may want to look at 2 - 512s instead of a 1GB stick.
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Originally Posted by beckstyle
Would RAM help speed up my other computer at all? I would like to make it faster. I'm not sure how much I have on it now.
Originally Posted by big_news_1
Originally Posted by big_news_1
When you're talking RAM, is it true that your machine may run faster with 2 - 512 sticks rather than 1 - 1GB stick? I've heard it'* faster because the system can access both sticks at once instead of only having the bandwidth of one stick. Is this true? If so Nate, you may want to look at 2 - 512s instead of a 1GB stick.
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Originally Posted by Sully1742
Originally Posted by beckstyle
Would RAM help speed up my other computer at all? I would like to make it faster. I'm not sure how much I have on it now.
Originally Posted by big_news_1
Originally Posted by big_news_1
When you're talking RAM, is it true that your machine may run faster with 2 - 512 sticks rather than 1 - 1GB stick? I've heard it'* faster because the system can access both sticks at once instead of only having the bandwidth of one stick. Is this true? If so Nate, you may want to look at 2 - 512s instead of a 1GB stick.
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