Robin Bowes;195927 Wrote: > Mark Lanctot wrote: > > > I've never really understood why people use so much RAM. 512 MB is > > plenty for me. I never get into paging unless I open a dozen > > uncompressed images in GIMP. > > Because the OS can use it to cache disk reads, etc. > > Plenty of RAM can have a more beneficial effect than a faster > processor/disk in many cases. > > I make a point of maxing out *all* the PCs I use with as much RAM as > possible (2GB in my laptop, 4GB in my P4 server, 1.5GB in my P3 > server, > etc.)
That's a good point and given what I know now, I probably should have spent more money on RAM than more money on hard drives, which were mighty expensive at the time (and I needed TWO of them!) RAM was fairly cheap at the time, although DDR got even cheaper after that. Oh and those of you who are on the mailing list might have seen a post by me about staying with my current secondary hardware. I deleted that and I'm rethinking this. That motherboard offers me a unique opportunity - a gradual upgrade over the course of the next year or two rather than a huge (expensive) upgrade in about 2 years' time. With that board, I can get a Core 2 Duo right now and continue to use my DDR memory. When I see a good deal on 1 GB - 2 GB of DDR2, I can get it and get slightly increased speed plus more memory at the same time - there's no point in getting more DDR memory at this point, I should go immediately to DDR2. Eventually I'll upgrade my video card to PCIe. So it's a case of pay a little now and a little over the next while versus nothing now and a whole lot later. I'm looking at $750+ if I have to get the motherboard, CPU, memory and video card all at the same time versus ~$425 if I get just the CPU and motherboard. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34505 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
