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| Thread ID: 52802 | 2004-12-30 09:04:00 | will faster ram speed up my system?? | robsonde (120) | Press F1 |
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| 308897 | 2004-12-30 09:04:00 | if a system has PC2100 and it is swaped for the same size of PC3200 will it improve performance?? | robsonde (120) | ||
| 308898 | 2004-12-30 09:07:00 | if it the motherboard can run it at 3200 then yes. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 308899 | 2004-12-30 09:09:00 | Depends on whether it supports PC3200 or not. Some mobos only support 2100 or under. Not any higher. Higher CPU speed may also make things a bit faster as in booting Windows, if thats what u mean. I know CPU speed helps when installing something like XP. It doesnt take as long as slower CPU's. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 308900 | 2004-12-30 09:14:00 | BTW this is some what of a theoretical question...... what if the system in question was a well knowen brand of laptop, would you expect the system to come with the fastset RAM the board could support?? |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 308901 | 2004-12-30 09:15:00 | No, the cheapest they can get in bulk. | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 308902 | 2004-12-30 09:18:00 | Depends on the balance that particular model is striking between price and performance. Some will, some wont. A computer system is a whole bunch of different things working together, and each task you do, will only run as fast as the slowest component being used. Increasing the speed of the memory will only have an effect if this is the bottleneck. More often than not it is, however things like disk access, bus speed and networking speed are also common bottlenecks. | ICW (6719) | ||
| 308903 | 2004-12-30 09:38:00 | BTW this is some what of a theoretical question...... what if the system in question was a well knowen brand of laptop, would you expect the system to come with the fastset RAM the board could support?? normall the ram with match the cpu bus speed. some top end models may use higher speed ram and i doubt any decent brand name would do an elcheapo and chuck the cheapest thing in. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 308904 | 2004-12-30 09:57:00 | and now for those of you with a copy of Decembers PC world.... check out the facts on page 123 |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 308905 | 2004-12-30 10:23:00 | Theoretically yes... Noticably - No..... The HDD is the bottleneck so get a 2nd one or a 7200rpm HDD. RAID would make things better! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 308906 | 2004-12-30 13:05:00 | Theoretically yes... Noticably - No..... The HDD is the bottleneck so get a 2nd one or a 7200rpm HDD. RAID would make things better! Chill, Can we get sw raid to give us a real inprovment in a laptop with 5400rpm HDD???????? D. |
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