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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 ... 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 |
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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 ... 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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