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Furthermore, DDR has been a big disappointment. The best it could do was about
a 7% improvement over SDRAM......and that was only for SOME specific
tests.....IOW, ideal conditions. On most apps there was NO performance pop.
In short, going DDR is very questionable.....especially given the price premium
it has over SDRAM.
I'm switching over to almost exactly the same setup next week (Athlon 1.2ghz,
256MB SDRAM, Asus A7V133) so I had to do a lot of research.<G>
Instead of loading everything into one machine, I'm getting another to handle
web, email, office apps and hooking them in a network to share the cable modem
and other peripherals. To save space, I'm also going LCDs for the TS4 machine.
You might want to consider that.
My only concern is I've heard that Athlons are not always agreeable with W2K.
That has been a problem for some people. Could anybody else share their
experience with this setup?
> If all you're running is TS4 on the box in question, there is little benefit
> to more than 256MB. For the additional applications you mentioned, 384MB is
> plenty. TS4 is a 16-bit app and probably rarely uses more than 20-30MB.
>
> Kent
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Campbell" <simtrader@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 2:45 AM
> Subject: More than 512MB RAM a benefit?
>
>
> If using TS4 with Win2000 on an AMD 1.33ghz 266fsb Athlon machine with two
> monitors (for charting TS4, web, email, audio & video chat) ...is getting
> 768MB or even 1GB RAM really worth it, compared to 512MB?
>
> My choice is to use 512MB DDR PC2100 RAM on a DDR-enabled motherboard, or
> using a higher amount of SDRAM on a standard motherboard.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Simon.
>
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