should i get more ram???

[coolsquirtle]

i currently uses

ASUS A7M266 Motherboard
AMD Thunderbird @ 1.4 GHZ
Coolermaster AMD fan
Kingston 256 PC2100 DDR ram
PNY Verto GeForce 4 Ti4200 64mb
Linksys 10/100 LAN card
Linksys BEFW11S4 wireless router
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy
Maxtor ATA 133 controller card
Pioneer DVD-116 DVD-Rom @ 16x
Yamaha CRW2100E @ 16x10x40
Maxtor Diamondmax 9 plus HDD @ 80GB 7200RPM 2Mb cache
Windows Xp professional

i use this system for about everything u do with a computer
and i find it lagging for god sake it takes 1 minute 43 to just get into the log in screen will my performance improve if i add another 256 PC2100 DDR ram???

 

[mister_e]

Since you're running Win XP, the extra memory would definitely help out. I always recommend people use 512MB when running Win XP.

You might also look into what programs and services are running at startup. The less programs you have running at startup the better (read: faster). A good site to check out
is www.blackviper.com, it has a pretty good list of all of the services you can disable without doing any damage.
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by mister_e on 02/08/03 00:29 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Rubberbband]

It also sounds like your installation of windows might be stale (too many instals un-instals/hardware changes). Try a format and re-instal. I'd still get 512Mb though.

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