Amount of RAM

How did you manage to get 521MB RAM??
I would always recommend lots of ram for what your doing, the more the
better really.
"Bill" wrote in message
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Use XP Pro, AMD Athlon XP 2100CPU and 521MB of DDR RAM.

Do a little home video, manipulate photos (Photoshop) up to 30MB - all
other
work not memory hungry.

Computer fine, some photographic processes seem a little slow. Is it
worth
another 256MB of RAM?

Regards

Running Photoshop? I would double your ram at the very least! That
would most likely cover you on the video end as well.

"Bill" wrote in message
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Use XP Pro, AMD Athlon XP 2100CPU and 521MB of DDR RAM.

Do a little home video, manipulate photos (Photoshop) up to 30MB - all
other
work not memory hungry.

Computer fine, some photographic processes seem a little slow. Is it
worth
another 256MB of RAM?

Regards

Bill wrote:
Use XP Pro, AMD Athlon XP 2100CPU and 521MB of DDR RAM.

Run the Windows Task Manager (CTRL-ALT-DEL) and click the performance
tab. This will show how much memory you are using.


Do a little home video, manipulate photos (Photoshop) up to 30MB - all other
work not memory hungry.

Computer fine, some photographic processes seem a little slow. Is it worth
another 256MB of RAM?

Regards

You would get a hell of a lot better performance from a major upgrade. I
would recommend at least a Barton Xp2500+ CPU and a motherboard that can
handle at least PC2700 RAM, like the Asus A7N8X then go to abut 1 Gig of
Memory in 512 Meg DDR X 2.

It is the processor speed and raw processing power that is really slowing
you down. The newer Athlons have a larger L2 Cache and a faster BUS. The
combination is a boost in any video or graphic processing hardware.


"Bill" wrote in message
...
Use XP Pro, AMD Athlon XP 2100CPU and 521MB of DDR RAM.

Do a little home video, manipulate photos (Photoshop) up to 30MB - all
other
work not memory hungry.

Computer fine, some photographic processes seem a little slow. Is it
worth
another 256MB of RAM?

Regards