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Running Win2000 on 1.3 gig athlon with 512meg DDR, ultra-ATA100 for some
months now... no problems yet. Next to my older twin Xeon workstation, I see
a 3x speed increase... very happy with speed.
best regards,
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: "E" <eckho@xxxxxxxx>
To: "omega-list" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 6:31 AM
Subject: Re: More than 512MB RAM a benefit?
> 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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