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| 392067 | 2005-09-29 23:16:00 | Bollocks. 512 is plenty for general tasks, hell, 256mb runs a healthy system just a little slower then 512mb.1GB isn't any use unless your into high end gaming or video editing. All my games ran on 256mb just last week when I was messing around with her... The pause issue isn't something that can easily be answered on a forum like this, I would say its a resource sharing issue rather then a lack of resources, You may have to do some experimenting. First off i would disable everything under startup, reboot and see if the pausing has gone, if it has then there is your issue. One of your running apps isn't playing well with the others. My bet is on this. If that has no joy then drop your display res right down and see if that helps the issue....if so then get a real video card. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 392068 | 2005-09-29 23:46:00 | Ram is so cheap and makes a big difference in opening/closing programmes and windows becomes so much more responsive with more ram as well . It is the first and best upgrade most people do with there computers . Just borrow some from a mate and see the difference for yourself,only takes a few seconds to install . :cool: Quote:by Techie -I don't do gaming So dont get the graphic card get the ram instead!!! :thumbs: Quote:by Techie Will more ram help? -even when I don't think it's needed? YES,YES IT WILL HELP!! ;) |
memphis (2869) | ||
| 392069 | 2005-09-29 23:54:00 | For the love of Jebus... Any computer running intergrated graphics is going to perform worse in every day tasks then one with a dedicated video card, a cheap video card gives a good value for money improvment to any computer. Next I'm gonna start flaming. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 392070 | 2005-09-29 23:58:00 | whoops | Battleneter (60) | ||
| 392071 | 2005-09-30 00:00:00 | I agree with the general comments, it is not going to be video card related. Does sound more like HDD paging or an app taking up a lot of HDD time. Not running Nortons are we? lol, your virus scanner should be your top suspect, but there is some good advdice further back. Also go for a Nvidia 6600GT if you must upgrade your video card. You may as well upgrade to something decent, but it will cost you $300 ish. |
Battleneter (60) | ||
| 392072 | 2005-09-30 06:12:00 | Hi everyone, thanks for all your comments. I have decided, based on the above comments, that I do not need more ram, because as far as I'm concerned, if Windows tells me that it's not even using half of what I'm allowing it to use, then it won't need anymore. So I opted to get a graphics card instead. GeCube ATI Radeon X600XT Extreme with VIVO Woah! So far, I haven't had any 'frozen' screens. Quality not much improved as I'm using 800x600 only, but when I increase the resolution, its crystal clear! To my suprise, it came with a Video-out cable, Counter-Strike :p, DVD softwares, etc. ... oh and that's not forget the size of box was at least twice what I had imagined, and the manual, well, too thick I didn't bother reading. And that's not worry about how much I spent on it :p It was dirt cheap -in fact, 40% of what Ascent wants for it. :eek: Thanks everyone once again. |
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