slotguy

everything takes just as long to open, nothing's really changed, i don't see it... what am i missing?

is it just vista? which is unbelievably annoying.. ?

brian

well vista will only see 3 GB if you have basic home premium etc. and 1 GB is good already. if you want to speed it up, run a disk cleenup, defrag and a spyware cleener

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slotguy

i got the patch, or whatever it was... SP1? and it now recognizes all 5. if it actually uses it is a whole other question i guess..

1 wasn't enough to run a particular game, so i went balls out and got 4 more. as for a cleanup, i've got 680 gigs of garbage shooting for 900. the OS install is relatively clean... my software shouldn't be gummed up..

whats the best way to really testdrive the memory and see what it can do... ?

StrangleHold

If you have 32bit all the patch does is tell you how much you have. Its still cant ulitize it.

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Cleric7x9

your motherboard probably uses dual channel, are you using pairs of sticks? or is their asymmetry in the channels?

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cohen

CPU Speed???

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slotguy

2.8 pent D

sticks



i couldn't find a solid way to upgrade to 64... maybe i'll look harder

cohen

uumm... well really all the upgrade of ram is so you can have more programs open at the same time. You wouldn't notice the difference unless you upgrade CPU.

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Tuffie

Has anyone else noticed that when ever people who aren't particularly "Computer Minded" (for lack of better words) want to make their PC's faster, they get more ram?

It's not the only contributing factor.

Tuffie.

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imsati

Granted, but it does the largest bang-for-the-buck in most systems with 512 MB (really even 1 GB nowadays) or under. As for the other ways, they tend to reduce disk clutter and make the OS utilize the most out of the HDD; the amount of data given 'immediate access' priority is RAM-dependent.

Anyway, to the OP...5 GB is complete overkill unless you do some very specific, very heavy resource-dependent tasks (and no, rendering video while playing Crysis doesn't count). Don't take this the wrong way, but if you don't know how much RAM your system needs, I'd bet the house that you don't need more than 2 GB at the absolute most (probably in the 1 to 1.5 GB range). What Series Pentium D do you have? The 9xx's were great, but the 8xx's were iffy. Personally, I'd pull out all but 2 GB of RAM, Defrag your HDD at least two times (preferably three) right after each other, run a Disk Cleanup, then schedule a full disk check (the kind that needs to have the system be restarted in order to do) and see where that gets you.

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