On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:28:19AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: > Mr O wrote: > > > Well, CPU speed is often adequate. My biggest bottleneck to > > system performance is hard drives. Contemplating a 10,000 RPM > > SATA drive just for games. > > If you don't reboot too often, more RAM is often a good substitute for > a faster drive. My 2GB boxes are noticeably faster at lots of tasks > than my 768MB laptop. Programs and files that I used yesterday are > often still in memory today. > > If you haven't maxed out your RAM, try it.
and use memory file systems where it makes sense. I spend a lot of time compiling software. doing this in a mfs is very noticibly faster. don't know how this would help for games though. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
