256 MB ram

[Guest]

I know 256MB ram is better than 128 MB ram.But how large of the performance will be increase?

 

[Crashman]

It depends on the applications running, but is generally not much in a typical system, maybe 10% in a gaming system. Where it really makes a difference is in running multiple applications, or applications such a Photo Editor which uses a lot of ram to buffer large images.

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[killall]

with windows the performance increase is HUGE... windows wastes a lot of ram as standard... over 70 megs usually just with standard apps running... 58 or 186... a bit more of a difference now isnt it?

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[FatBurger]

Windows <font color=red>95/98/ME</font color=red> uses memory badly. Windows <font color=blue>NT/2000</font color=blue> uses RAM much better.

But Crash is correct. You might not see a difference, but you might.
When I'm making a webpage and I have Flash, GoLive, Photoshop, etc. all open on my machine, I'm glad for my 512meg of RAM.

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[lhgpoobaa]

my first computer i owned had 32mb running win95.
it churned. bigtime!
then i upgraded to 64mb and the churning halved
my cellery 500 had 128 and win98. still churned on games like UnrealTournament.
had to go back to a p2-300... upgraded to 256mb. slow, but virtually no churning. memory was the only thing saving that machine.

now i have 512. only churns when i start editing 300+Mb wav files

you WILL see a difference between 128 & 256, specially with modern games.
256 to 512... probably not, unless your really doing big stuff.

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