(293144 + 260648) < (523760 / 2) Since the above is not true, I guess I wasted my money. I will file the receipt just in case I have problems.
Unfortunately the local staples was out of stock so I ordered it at the store, and it will be a week before I can try it. Looking at Jim B's criteria, I don't have much for Mem Delta or PF Delta,. but I have some large numbers for page faults. Mem Usage is 241420K/1276296K. I'm not sure what it all means, but I'm guessing that page faults aren't good or they wouldn't be faults and using VM is slower than ram. > Do this while your system is up and running the things you > normally keep running all the time: > > 1. Start/Run "taskmgr" OK > 2. Click on the Performance tab > 3. Look under Physical Memory for Total, Available, and System > cache. > > If (System cache + Available) < (Total / 2) , then you will > probably see some improvement. > > And since you caused me to go check out the on-sale memory, I'll > just say that while it's probably OK for your XP2200+ > requirements, I won't buy PNY memory any more. I had one go bad > and had to wait more than a month for warranty replacement. Plus > PNY requires a copy of the original receipt to honor their > lifetime warranty, not the case with Kingston (at least not the > last time I had to return one, a couple years ago). > > Carl > > -----Original Message----- > From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mike Miller Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:38 PM > To: [email protected] Subject: Ram for Win2k > > I have 512 MB ram in this Win2k machine. Will I see any > improvement by adding another 512 MB? I ask because Staples has > 512 MB for $45 after rebate. > > Biostar M7NCD Pro, AMD XP2200 > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > WIN-HOME Archives: > http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the > List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page > http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
