On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:01:53 -0500, you wrote:

>
>Date:    Sat, 27 Jan 2001 13:11:09 -0500
>From:    John Bissell <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Too much RAM??
>
>Hi,
>I was at an electronics store not too long ago, and they suggested that its possible to have too much RAM. I have a P3 600, 128 100 MHZ SDRAM. Would it be good to double it?
>
>John Bissell

On a computer like yours  would benefit somewhat from going from 128MB
to 256.  Generally any software works pretty well for almost all
applications and Operating systems.

Going from 64MB to 128 has a much more noticeable affect.
However 256 MB is handy and better especially for many programs open,
graphics editing, Adobe  bloatware etc.

Windows 2000 and Windows NT make better use of memory over 256MB.
Linux too *IF* you let the OS know it has more than 64MB

Windows 95, 98 and ME cannot use over 512MB!!! this was only recently
widely discovered.

On the older TX and VX chipset Socket 7 Pentium class mainboards
(before Pentium II, Pentium III or equivalent AMD)  anything over 64MB
is uncached memory. This means that the benefits of greater memory are
in such systems limited by some drawbacks. Its generally beneficial
overall  but some programs will be slightly slower.

Those are the only caveats.

So at today's RAM prices. Yes, double it. Buy good quality RAM of the
correct type preferably from some place where you can return it if it
doesn't work reliably in your board.

Mark Paulson

Silicon Valley, California

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