I have heard it claimed that no-name ram is slower than branded memory, whatever that is. I heard this on TechTV, screensavers edition. They gave instructions for building a $500 game machine. You might visit their web page.
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/?nnav I couldn't find mention of the hardware for their game box on the web site, however. It might be buried there somewhere. Check out their archives section. Joel On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 07:36:47PM -0800, Ian Stephen wrote: > Not exactly a Linux question, but I am going to be building a few > low-budget Linux PC's for the family so... > > Is one brand of ram as good as the next or does it make a difference > whose ram one buys? > > Thanks, > Ian Stephen > > > On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 16:29, Joel Hammer wrote: > > > > I up'ed the memory from 125 megs to 256megs by adding some memory from > > a computer I am throwing out. Surprising to me, it really peps the > > machine up. > > > > So, its worth the $44 bucks or whatever they are charging at your local > > CompuUSA. I think they charge more than that if you buy it preconfiged > > with additional memory. > > > > Here is the output of free. So, it looks like the extra memory is > > being used. (32 megs is used for video memoryh.) > > > > total used free shared buffers cached > > Mem: 224484 220092 4392 0 35208 105460 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 79424 145060 > > Swap: 864500 1356 863144 > > > > > > Joel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
