Lan Barnes wrote:
On Tue, September 11, 2007 12:00 pm, Ralph Shumaker wrote:
kelsey hudson wrote:
I have a couple of 512MB sticks of PC133 floating around here
somewhere. If I find them and you still need them you can have them.
Cheers,
-Kelsey
Since Lan doesn't care for them, I might be interested. I don't know
off hand what kind my PC uses. I currently have 512MB from one stick
using one of two slots. I'd probably have to shut down to find out
more, right?
After carefully removing the cover of my running PC, and an internet
search for the model info seen on my MB, it appears that I do *not* need
the PC133 ram.
Mine takes DDR sticks (200, 266, 333, and 400) (aka:
PC1600/PC2100/PC2700/PC3200). Are these old enuf that anyone has any of
them looking for a home?
Would I have to match speeds between the two slots? I don't know the
speed of the 512MB stick already in there. The two slots can take up to
2GB total.
I average about 200MB of swap and occasionally push about 440 (since
moving from FC4 to FC7). Even just a 256 stick should take care of my
average needs. So a 512 would be even better. But since 440 comes so
close to exceeding even that, I should probably consider just maxing out
one slot at 1GB.
Maybe I should consider upgrading the CPU also, and so (in for a penny,
in for a pound) perhaps I should consider upgrading the MB as well. CPU
is Mobile AMD Duron 800MHz (according to /proc/cpuinfo). The specs for
my current MB doesn't even list this as the lower end CPU it can take.
How do I find out what part of my CPU usage is being gobbled up by
swapping memory? Right now it's running at 100% because of a webpage I
have loaded. When I shut that page down, the CPU activity drops *way* down.
Adding memory may be the cheapest way to fix my immediate problems, but
is this memory still usable on the latest MBs being sold today?
How does one evaluate if it is time to upgrade just the memory, just the
memory and brain, or the whole MB package?
BTW, if anyone needs some really really old memory, I have a bunch of
nondescript sticks from the dawn of time. Free to any home, good or bad.
--
Ralph
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--Lan Barnes
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