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| Thread ID: 59137 | 2005-06-22 18:47:00 | Additional ram better or worse? | vipul (8399) | Press F1 |
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| 366172 | 2005-06-22 18:47:00 | I've in my celeron 400 mother board a single chip 128mb ram. I've came to know that adding 64 mb card will only show you 192mb ram, but it will slow down my computer as if it is having only 64mb. ram. is it so? In short it is advisable to use 128+64 mb ram or it is better to go with only 128mb? | vipul (8399) | ||
| 366173 | 2005-06-22 20:38:00 | I assume you have tried this and seen the drop in the performance. How slow is the computer in terms of time? How much longer does it take to do things compared to when you only had 128MB? Firstly let me say that more RAM is always good. Secondly when installing more RAM make sure that the new RAM is identical or as identical as possible to the original RAM installed already. Another thing to look out for is make sure that both the old and new RAM chips run at the same speed. I'm assuming you're using SDRAM so your speeds would either be 133MHz or 100MHz. It could be a shot in the dark but the 2nd RAM chip you put in may only be 100MHz but even so you should not see such a significant drop in performance the faster RAM ship will clock down its speed to the slower chip's one. Other than that I can't think of anything else really except the usual, defrag your hard drive, check it for errors and have a look at your Swap File (Virtual Memory) it shouldn't be bigger than 384MB, heck some people run without a swap file but that's only because they have 1GB or more of RAM. Check these other things out just to eliminate the possibilities. I would also suggest a virus scan and the usual Adware scans... you never know what might be lurking. Hope that helps. cheers chiefnz |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 366174 | 2005-06-23 04:50:00 | I assume you have tried this and seen the drop in the performance . How slow is the computer in terms of time? How much longer does it take to do things compared to when you only had 128MB? Firstly let me say that more RAM is always good . Secondly when installing more RAM make sure that the new RAM is identical or as identical as possible to the original RAM installed already . Another thing to look out for is make sure that both the old and new RAM chips run at the same speed . I'm assuming you're using SDRAM so your speeds would either be 133MHz or 100MHz . It could be a shot in the dark but the 2nd RAM chip you put in may only be 100MHz but even so you should not see such a significant drop in performance the faster RAM ship will clock down its speed to the slower chip's one . Other than that I can't think of anything else really except the usual, defrag your hard drive, check it for errors and have a look at your Swap File (Virtual Memory) it shouldn't be bigger than 384MB, heck some people run without a swap file but that's only because they have 1GB or more of RAM . Check these other things out just to eliminate the possibilities . I would also suggest a virus scan and the usual Adware scans . . . you never know what might be lurking . Hope that helps . cheers chiefnz Well . . it did the same for me too when I had a smaller puter and a slower cpu . I had a 450 Dell I used as a server, and if I exceed the cpu speed by the size of the ram, it defaults to a slower speed and posts "100 mhz is assumed" . That was a drop from 133 mhz . Now, I don't know if that's typical, but it is with my older Dell . So, here's what happened . . . . 450 mhz cpu / under 450 mb ram, everything's ok . . . But when I tried using more ram, over the size of the cpu, the processer defaulted to a slower speed . The most ram I could use with that Dell mobo was 384 before I got into trouble . That was a 256+128 = 384 . All the ram sticks I have for my Dells are the same, so there's no incompatability factors here . In this case, more ram wasn't better . . after a certain point . :eek: |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 366175 | 2005-06-23 05:19:00 | It depends on how much a mobo can handle . Some have a limit for RAM . And if u go over what it can handle, it'll either go down in speed, or wont run at all . Either that, or depending on what version of Windows u use . Altho u can usually fix this for 98 etc . BUT the fix for this SHOULD be done before u put in more ram that 98/95 can handle . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 366176 | 2005-06-23 06:33:00 | But when I tried using more ram, over the size of the cpu cpu size has nothing to with the amount of ram it can handle. it all comes down to the motherboard and a few OS tweaks. btw not many (if any) 450mhz cpu's ever ran at 133fsb most ran at 100fsb or 66fsb. vipul....more ram the better. most the old boards are usually happy up to 512 meg but check motherboard manual for exact limits. also your cpu is only 66fsb so the ram is going to default back to 66 reguardless if you put 100 or 13 ram in it. as far as OS, win9x has a small problem when going over 512meg but thats easly fixed. i doubt you will have that much as 256meg of ram is often plenty. |
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