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>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?
The link below talks about pitfalls of using less than the best memory in
Athlons. I wonder if some of those "problems" were memory related and not
win2K....I also hear the pre T-Bird Athlons and some motherboard combos were
less stable.
http://www.icentral.com/html/1stchoicememory/page760.html
I've got a win2k/A950/384M PC133 set-up and I run TS4, IE5.5, Dynastore,
LEO, 2-3 QCharts on the same machine. I usually have 200+ MB of free ram,
and it runs fast and very stable. I don't think the TS2K comments really
apply to TS4 set-ups: I hear TS2K, radar screen, etc. require a lot more
memory.
BW
>From: "E" <eckho@xxxxxxxx>
>To: "omega-list" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: More than 512MB RAM a benefit?
>Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 06:31:26 -0400
>
>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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