i just upgraded from 1G to 5G's.. and i can't tell

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slotguy

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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.. ?
 
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
 
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 :D 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... ?
 
your motherboard probably uses dual channel, are you using pairs of sticks? or is their asymmetry in the channels?
 
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.
 
Tuffie said:
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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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.
 
where to start....

32-bit OSes can recognize up to 4Gigs of system memory, anything over 4Gigs must be running 64bit memory addressing to be able to see it.

Why doesn't it make a difference?

Unused RAM is useless RAM. 5 gigs is overkill for your average user and your average gamer. Unless you completely turn off your swap file and run everything from RAM. Then maybe you'd see a difference, but I am not sure since Windows is clunky to begin with.
 
imsati said:
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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Why would he pull the ram out after he already bought it?
 
Motoxrdude said:
Why would he pull the ram out after he already bought it?
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As already mentioned...

He doesn't need it.
The system won't utilize it.
It is a complete waste of money.
He can try to return it and recoup some of his money.
He can try to sell it on ebay and recoup some of his money.

Now, the question I'm really interested in knowing the answer to is this: Did he buy all that RAM on his own or did some useless Circuit City tool push the sale?
 
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One thing that hasn't been cleared up all of this is the type of OS he is using. Is it 32-bit home basic? 64-bit Home Premium?

What OS are you using exactly?
 
cohen said:
There was discussion about OS's but we don't know what OS he is running... :cool:
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Not that it really matters. If someone *needs* 5 GB of RAM, chances are they know what they're doing and wouldn't be posting the original question. 32-bit or 64-bit, it's overkill for either type system in this case.
 
it was a $50 upgrade.. i can live with it.

and ya'd think a 2.8 cpu would be enough for the pc to not get sticky when digging around in explorer.. so i got more ram. but i figured out what's wrong, i spent a bunch of money to find out that Vista just plain blows. i'm going back to XP..

thanks for the replies
 
slotguy said:
it was a $50 upgrade.. i can live with it.

and ya'd think a 2.8 cpu would be enough for the pc to not get sticky when digging around in explorer.. so i got more ram. but i figured out what's wrong, i spent a bunch of money to find out that Vista just plain blows. i'm going back to XP..

thanks for the replies
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Depends on the processor. A 2.8Ghz 3rd gen celeron isn't going to cut it. You really need to be running a Core technology processor to run Vista, or the AMD equivalent.
 
it's a pentium d

it came with this piece of dogshit dell i paid too much for.. i'm in the middle of salvaging what's useful and putting together something else.

this cpu should do the job for a little while at least.. i think



it's the dell/vista combo that's really driving me nuts.. first i'm gonna eliminate the dell factor, and then vista if i have to... i'm sick of yelling at my stupid computer :mad: :( :confused: :eek:
 
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