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Sorry to post here, please ignore if you wish, but couldnt find anywhere to
post.

My kids are currently using an old desktop with a 450 amd processor and
128mb of ram, needless to say it is painfully slow, they only really use for
MSN etc and wondered whether it was worth ugrading the memory ? or should it
just be dumped ?

I should add its using XP as well which probably doesnt help

On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:44:56 GMT, I waved a wand and this message
magically appears in front of APK1:


Its definitely worth upgrading the memory, it will make it go like
shit off shovel. Windows likes having a lot of memory.
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Alex Buell wrote in message
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But is it really worth spending on an amd 450 ? Als I think the motherboard
limit is only 256mb anyway.

APK1 wrote:

Windows 2000 needs 128MB of RAM to do anything useful.
It will run in half of that, maybe a bit less, but the
amount of disk swapping required to do so will slow the
computer down *exponentially*.

For Windows XP, the equivalent figure is 256MB of RAM.

You have a choice if you want to stick with 128MB.
Either switch back to Windows 2000, or turn off all the
eye-candy in Windows XP so it runs just like Win2K.
Someone else can tell you how to do this.

You should be able to pick up a 128MB SDRAM SODIMM
fairly cheaply second-hand. Furthermore, the extra
memory will increase the resale value of your laptop,
if you decide to sell it on in the future.

On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:51:28 GMT, I waved a wand and this message
magically appears in front of APK1:


Yep, memorys really cheap these days. I still have a Pentium MMX 166
o/c to 233 that I still use for MSDOS stuff.
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http://www.munted.org.uk

Youve been eating the cat food again, havent you?

APK1 wrote:

Sorry, thats what happns when you post this sort of question
to uk.comp.sys.laptops rather than uk.comp.homebuilt.

Ignore my comment above about the SODIMM. SDRAM DIMMs are not
just fairly cheap; they are dirt cheap.

If your motherboard has an Intel 430TX chipset, it can take
up to 256MB of RAM.

Its more likely that you have a motherboard that can run at
100MHz, and youve configured your K6-2 CPU to have a multiplier
of 4.5x. If so, you can go up to 768MB of RAM, with three 256MB
DIMMs. (No socket 7 motherboard supports 512MB SDRAM DIMMs.)

On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:39:44 GMT, I waved a wand and this message
magically appears in front of Fixer:


No, I had assumed he had Windows 98 installed, as that does performs a
lot better with some extra memory.

And dont assume I was the OP.
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Youve been eating the cat food again, havent you?

APK1 wrote:

another 256mb will make a big difference and should cost less than a tenner
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Alex

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