You could see anything from a 10 to 50% improvement in throughput depending on how memory intensive the process. Processing large Photoshop files might even show a larger improvement. You might also look into finding out just how many of those 60 odd processes are important, HP and your ISP (if you're using the software they supplied), have probably saddled you with between 10-20 processes you don't need or want for that matter. That said I'm running Win2K and have only 48 processes running with my email client web client and calendar application being the only user programs running. The other thing you might want to look into would be increasing video memory, if your video card allows.
Rick Womer wrote: > We have a Mac household, but my work computer is an HP > with a 2 gHz processor and 1 gig of RAM running XP. > There is a lot running on it (60-odd processes when I > checked using alt-ctrl-del just now). > > The question is: How much of a speed improvement > should I expect if I double the RAM? If the limiting > factor is the processor, I don't want to invest in > more RAM. > > Rick > > http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > -- Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
