Would I be wasting my money?

[olrac]

I currently have 192 Mb of PC 100 sdram. I'm running Windows Millennium with an DFI AK70/Athlon 700. I'm considering buying another 128 Megs considering it is so cheap. Would I notice any difference by doing this. I do a lot of photo imaging and photography which requires lots of memory. I heard that windows doesn't really manage over 128 Mb very well. Should I go for it or would I be wasting my money?

 

[wapaaga]

it would help speed you up becuse it would cause the computer to swap stuff back and forth off the hard drive

and i'm pretty sure windows is ok up to 512 mb

i would also go and get a better memory magemant program
like rambooster which can be found for free at cnet

 

[mpjesse]

The more the better with WinME- it's a memory hog. Buy now while it's cheap... Memory prices are predicted to go back up now that we're in a slow-down economy. Crap, just replace it with 256 megs of PC133 for $90.

-MP Jesse

"Signatures Suck"

 

[NickM]

Barely can see any improvement above 128 (except WinNT) on some machines c/w slower processors and cheap stupid motherboards. Should work this way on Duron600, but I wouldn't say that I'm sure about DFI mobo. Anyway, it's good time for buyng SDRAM upgrade, good investment.

 

[nicewar]

another 128 should def give you a performance boost. Think of it as having twice as much desk space to open files on. You don't have to go back to the file cabinet (hd) as often to access the files you'r working on.

Troubles a-brewing and I'm left holding the spoon.

 

[Guest]

It's all in the quality not the quantity- Unless you can't OC! Mp's right- go w/ 256 of Crucial 133 for $90. I have Mushkin but I OC hard and the Crucial wasn't cutting it so I returned it and have much better results now!

Screw the risks! -Street
-AMD 1470Mhz-Abit KT7A-Raid-256Mushrev3-Fop38

 

[machow]

Hmmm... I think you are good with 192MB. Unless you have Photoshop which let's you control memory usage of by it then you should not get anymore RAM. I have 256MB but running on Windows 2000 which... on idle uses around 140MB. When I build web pages it usually go up to 300MB!

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[ejsmith2]

If you are using a specific program that will use the extra memory (i.e. photoshop, primier) then WinME will allocate the extra memory to the program. Otherwise it sits in limbo if you don't have a bunch allocated to the disk cache.