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Konichiwaneko · 07-04-2003, 09:10 PM

Actually in your situation slower ram I believe would help more.

Your CPU probably isn't running synchronous with the ram speed when it's running 166mhz (2700). Your cpu is probably running 133 (2100) speed. So the extra 33mhz in memory bandwidth may add at most about 1~2% increase in speed.

With 256 megs of ram, you are going to start hitting your paging file minutes after a reboot if you are running windows XP, and not much longer for any os. Anyone here can tell you as soon as you start hitting your paging file...things slow way down. Going from the nanoseconds to milliseconds (That's like minutes to hours for us).

More ram would be better for you in this situation. If you had a 166fsb processor then the situation would be moot cause all you could run is 2700 memory or higher.

07-04-2003, 09:10 PM	#7 (permalink)
Konichiwaneko The Dreaded Pixel Nazi Location: Inside my camera	Actually in your situation slower ram I believe would help more. Your CPU probably isn't running synchronous with the ram speed when it's running 166mhz (2700). Your cpu is probably running 133 (2100) speed. So the extra 33mhz in memory bandwidth may add at most about 1~2% increase in speed. With 256 megs of ram, you are going to start hitting your paging file minutes after a reboot if you are running windows XP, and not much longer for any os. Anyone here can tell you as soon as you start hitting your paging file...things slow way down. Going from the nanoseconds to milliseconds (That's like minutes to hours for us). More ram would be better for you in this situation. If you had a 166fsb processor then the situation would be moot cause all you could run is 2700 memory or higher. __________________ Hesitate. Pull me in. Breath on breath. Skin on skin. Loving deep. Falling fast. All right here. Let this last. Here with our lips locked tight. Baby the time is right for us... to forget about us. Last edited by Konichiwaneko; 07-04-2003 at 09:12 PM..