Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB -> 1 GB lead to better performance?

[Bruno Buys <brunobuys@gmail.com>]

Robert Kopp wrote:

> --- "Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@familiasanchez.net>
> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 06:19:09PM -0500, Robert
> > Glueck wrote:
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> > > I'm thinking of upgrading my i686 system (Intel
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> > Celeron, 1.8
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> > > GHz) from 512 MB RAM to 1GB (it uses PC133 SDRAM
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> > DIMM
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> > > modules).  I'm assuming this upgrade will give me
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> > better
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> > > speed and performance.
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> I am using DDR RAM, but I can see a definite
> improvement in performance from 256 MB to 1G. I did
> not try intermediate values. It's pretty cheap these
> days. There should be many people upgrading from SDRAM
> to boards that support DDR, and who may lend you some
> of their old RAM for such a trial.
>
> Robert "Tim" Kopp
> http://analytic.tripod.com/
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I upgraded recently from 512 to 1GB, but I'm using ddr also. To my 
surprise, I had a bit of performance increase, really. I mean, I always 
use 'free' to check out mem usage, and I was using very few swap, if 
any, before the upgrade. Now, I didn't see swap usage at all. I upgraded 
for better video and photo editing.
You'll see better performance when opening and working with lots of 
programs together. Daily life will remain more or less the same.