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| Thread ID: 61371 | 2005-09-02 11:29:00 | Maximum ram for win98 | Peter Coleman (597) | Press F1 |
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| 385412 | 2005-09-03 06:18:00 | Hey sure I can understand that advantage - not using the swap file. cheers.......m (Or rather not having to use the swap file.) :) |
mark c (247) | ||
| 385413 | 2005-09-03 07:44:00 | With 1 gig of RAM for running win98 wouldn't you also need to update the CPU as well? I mean wouldn't that much RAM with a 333mghz processor or even 700 mghz processor mean that you've got this lake of RAM being squirted thru a straw? Wondering. ? I was using 98 up to late last year on an Athlon 2200+ processor :D and only changed to XP because the new graphics card didn't support 98. So in a later machine running 98 the extra ram can help, especially when doing a few things at once. |
Raikyn (6293) | ||
| 385414 | 2005-09-03 08:11:00 | Thanks for that Raikyn. Didn't mean to hijack this thread but the original poster got their answer. :D Still a bit puzzled but that's standard. :thumbs: |
mark c (247) | ||
| 385415 | 2005-09-07 21:09:00 | Most people take it at face value - look up a few tweaks and oh yes it works. I have a friend who never takes anything at face value and as he has the skills he likes to investigate for himself exactly what is going on behind the scenes so to speak. He experimented with this himself as he had 98 at the time and 1 Gb of RAM. Not only with the published tweaks but a few of his own as well. It is not stable. At one point he thought he'd managed it with 768Mb but no. What happens is it loads into memory OK but it doesn't release it again. Try it by loading several fairly resource intensive programs all at once. Ignore the fact they are not really multi-tasking its the memory you are testing. You can tweak it to the extreme but what happens is you are in effect disabling it so thats pointless. Its the smae with the recent post about that guys website - where he listed all the things in Win XP that most people dismissed as paranoia. His interpretation of why they are there might be paranoid but in fact most of what he listed is in fact true - try investigating thiese things thoroughly rather than relying on what someone else says on a website. |
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