Hi :) Depends which type of Ram. 'Old' DDR1 (such as for most of mine) is so horribly expensive it would be cheaper for me to buy a new mbord, plus chip, plus a healthy amount of DDR3 leaving a couple of slots for a future upgrade.
On the even older machines at work the 'ancient' sd-ram is difficult to even find. I think you have to find an antiques shop rather than a computer store. We bought 4 'new' Cpus for about £50, which is less than 1 decent stick of DDR1 ram so now those 4 are only horribly slow rather than being mind-bogglingly putrifying heaps of horrible slowness. Quite a step up!! You can ask them to do 2 things at once and it might even finish before the kettle's boiled now! (rather than after lunch). If those machines got newer hard-drives that spun faster than a buckled bicycle wheel in thick mud then they might run a tad faster and with SSDs they might only 'run' at a mildly annoying slow crawl - even on Windows. Usually the bottle-neck tends to be Ram, or at least Ram is the easiest fix but it's not always so. Regards from Tom :) --- On Fri, 10/8/12, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote: From: Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] why does Windows version take so long to remove? To: users@global.libreoffice.org Cc: "Jay Lozier" <jsloz...@gmail.com> Date: Friday, 10 August, 2012, 23:08 On 2012-08-10 2:54 PM, Jay Lozier <jsloz...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is a point of diminishing returns where more memory will not > noticeably improve performance depending on usage with increasing > memory. But the demands on the computer tend to increase with time as > people use more graphically intensive applications/websites. > > Personally, I prefer install the maximum the motherboard can handle. No argument there, especial as cheap as RAM is these days... ;) -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
