WooT, large RWIN

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 8:53 am

I knew SG put a larger RWIN in for a reason, (Cable users) and since we determined that system specs do matter, buffers are set by amonnt of RAM you have when installing Winders, nice to wake up to this, yes I broke down and bought 512 Megs more of DDR RAM (Not here yet) have to take out 256 DDR RAM to put in 512, but, what the hay:

Loonatic · Post by **Loonatic** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 2:54 pm

Hello Lobo,

I find that that much ram is entirely overkill. 512mb ram is perfectly fine for most users. Your buffer wont be that big, in a sense that it will take up any noticable amount of ram. The most it would take up is 8mb. From what Ive seen, your speeds are nearly always the same, and you are probably at the 80% max of your rated throughput, so why waste money on more ram if it wont do any good?

Just my 2 cents.

funky · Post by **funky** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 6:58 pm

Hey Lobie, long time no see.

I wonder why you have to take out the old 256mb ram, unless you are running out of slots on your board. In that case, how about sending it over?

earthmofo · Post by **earthmofo** » Fri Jan 03, 2003 1:00 am

If I'm not mistaken Lobo has 768 meg. He has 2 slots one with 512 and the other with 256.

Andrzej · Post by **Andrzej** » Fri Jan 03, 2003 11:56 am

LOBO do you still use the same heavy screen on speed tests??

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Fri Jan 03, 2003 12:18 pm

More RAM allows you to run more programs in background without slowdown, and yes I have only 2 slots

What will I do with 256 stick, who knows???

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Fri Jan 03, 2003 2:19 pm

Got RAM, one thing about Crucial, there fast getting it to you, Free 1 or 2 days, am I happy, Heck yes

Peppy

Loonatic · Post by **Loonatic** » Fri Jan 03, 2003 6:38 pm

512mb is plenty enough, even for Photoshop. You arent encoding or doing large photo work are you? 1gig is definitly too much IMO,