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Offline Gunthr

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No Performance increase after doubling ram?
« on: December 01, 2000, 09:59:00 AM »
My computer:
P-3 700mhz flip chip @ 869 mhz
Asus CUV4X VIA chipset
Viper 770-TnT II Ultra
West.Dig. HD, 7200 RPM ATA-100 20+gig
128 mb 133mhz Ram
plus the additional 128 mb Ram (all Mushkin)totaling 256 mb ram.
The ram is a Christmas gift. I installed it, and the computer recognises it, but I can't discern any performance increase. My daughter thinks its actually slower now. I havn't run benchmarks yet, but was hoping for a quick answer.

Is this normal? Should I sent the ram back to Santa Claus and ask for something else?

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No Performance increase after doubling ram?
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2000, 12:34:00 PM »
No, keep the RAM.  Ram good!

However, RAM was not your "bottleneck" for most things you are doing, so you may not see any increase in speed.  It will let you run more things at once, faster though.

If you have a limited budget, you may want to trade the ram and your video card in for something spanky like a Voodoo 5 or a GeForce 2 Ultra that would give you a nice boost in games.

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No Performance increase after doubling ram?
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2000, 01:12:00 PM »
Leph is right:
If you get rid of that TNT2 and get yourself a new videocard your fps propably doubled.
Ati's Radeon is little bit slower in lower resolutions but when 1024*768/32bit and up the Radeon is just after Gf2's. I'm using Gf2MX card from Hercules and I'm very pleased to its performance/Bucks ratio.

Mushkin's memory chips are (usually) really good for over-clocking  

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No Performance increase after doubling ram?
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2000, 01:49:00 PM »
  I keep RAM.

  Easter Bunny bring new vid card.

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No Performance increase after doubling ram?
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2000, 03:23:00 PM »
It doesn't work because you opened it 24 days early  

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No Performance increase after doubling ram?
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2000, 03:36:00 PM »
Well then Eagler,I guess getting my Easter present on New Years Day is out of the question then ...  

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No Performance increase after doubling ram?
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2000, 07:07:00 PM »
If you are running Win 9x (ie 95, 98, me) you won't get any performance increase over 128 mb of ram while playing AH.  These versions of Windows don't really use the extra ram.  Win 2k would actually use the extra ram, but AH would probably still run slow because of 2ks large system resource requirements compared to 98 etc.

The TNT2 card (while very nice cards) is the bottleneck in your system.  GeForce 2 MX is a good card for under $130 dollars.  (GeForce 2 GTS and Ultra are even faster   )
If you do go with one of these cards, make sure you get the newest VIA agp drivers and possibly update your MB bios.



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