Speed up your computer
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How to see how what is the amount that my motherboard can handleOriginally posted by fudgester:The best answer? Just slot in another two 512MB chips into the other two slots. Voila... you have (256 x 2) + (512 x 2) = 1.5GB of RAM!
I don't see why you would want to replace the 256MB chips with 512MB chips when you still have another two empty slots. Besides, I've checked with a number of shops at Sim Lim, and they don't do trade-ins for RAM chips. Since you can't get rid of those two 256MB chips, might as well let them continue working.
The bottom line is simple: buy as much RAM as you can afford. Up to the limit that the motherboard can handle, of course. -
You need to find the manual that came with your computer. It will state how much RAM your motherboard can handle.Originally posted by ryangian:How to see how what is the amount that my motherboard can handle -
i have done so many tweaks to my machines that i cant even rem what i did...but so far so good...
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Not stated but will call up Hp to check... thks a lotOriginally posted by fudgester:You need to find the manual that came with your computer. It will state how much RAM your motherboard can handle. -
If you are willing to take the risk. Just adjust the address of your RAM. My friend did this and increased his speed by 40%. However, he owns a record of spoiling 3 RAMs by doing this
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wa how ah i wana tryOriginally posted by chenc:If you are willing to take the risk. Just adjust the address of your RAM. My friend did this and increased his speed by 40%. However, he owns a record of spoiling 3 RAMs by doing this -
A best site to check up how much RAM your computer can take. http://www.crucial.com/
It will list your computer's model and is always 100% accurate. Don't know whats your computer's model? Nvm, it can scan for you! -
I thought RAM have lifetime warrenty...Originally posted by chenc:If you are willing to take the risk. Just adjust the address of your RAM. My friend did this and increased his speed by 40%. However, he owns a record of spoiling 3 RAMs by doing this
Thks for the curial website -
Yup, but somehow they seemed to know what you have done to it. Anyway I didn't have the guts to try it. My friend did. Now he uses that trick to hack Maple. Say what all those operating graphics running in RAM so can hack through there. Dunno how it works, but he start a new account and level up till 54 in 2 days.Originally posted by ryangian:I thought RAM have lifetime warrenty...
Thks for the curial website
(For those of you who don't play Maple, neither do I, but leveling up 54 levels is a long long long long long job without hacking. -
Website Quote: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question175.htm
Will Adding more RAM makes my computer run Faster?
Up to a point, adding RAM (random access memory) will normally cause your computer to feel faster on certain types of operations. RAM is important because of an operating system component called the virtual memory manager (VMM).
When you run a program such as a word processor or an Internet browser, the microprocessor in your computer pulls the executable file off the hard disk and loads it into RAM. In the case of a big program like Microsoft Word or Excel, the EXE consumes about 5 megabytes. The microprocessor also pulls in a number of shared DLLs (dynamic link libraries) -- shared pieces of code used by multiple applications. The DLLs might total 20 or 30 megabytes. Then the microprocessor loads in the data files you want to look at, which might total several megabytes if you are looking at several documents or browsing a page with a lot of graphics. So a normal application needs between 10 and 30 megabytes of RAM space to run. On my machine, at any given time I might have the following applications running:
* A word processor
* A spreadsheet
* A DOS prompt
* An e-mail program
* A drawing program
* Three or four browser windows
* A fax program
* A Telnet session
Besides all of those applications, the operating system itself is taking up a good bit of space. Those programs together might need 100 to 150 megabytes of RAM, but my computer only has 64 megabytes of RAM installed.
The extra space is created by the virtual memory manager. The VMM looks at RAM and finds sections of RAM that are not currently needed. It puts these sections of RAM in a place called the swap file on the hard disk. For example, even though I have my e-mail program open, I haven't looked at e-mail in the last 45 minutes. So the VMM moves all of the bytes making up the e-mail program's EXE, DLLs and data out to the hard disk. That is called swapping out the program. The next time I click on the e-mail program, the VMM will swap in all of its bytes from the hard disk, and probably swap something else out in the process. Because the hard disk is slow relative to RAM, the act of swapping things in and out causes a noticeable delay.
If you have a very small amount of RAM (say, 16 megabytes), then the VMM is always swapping things in and out to get anything done. In that case, your computer feels like it is crawling. As you add more RAM, you get to a point where you only notice the swapping when you load a new program or change windows. If you were to put 256 megabytes of RAM in your computer, the VMM would have plenty of room and you would never see it swapping anything. That is as fast as things get. If you then added more RAM, it would have no effect.
Some applications (things like Photoshop, many compilers, most film editing and animation packages) need tons of RAM to do their job. If you run them on a machine with too little RAM, they swap constantly and run very slowly. You can get a huge speed boost by adding enough RAM to eliminate the swapping. Programs like these may run 10 to 50 times faster once they have enough RAM!
I have seen this custom made computer with 32Gb of RAM and 160GB of Harddisk. After the PC boot, you can choose an application to run. This application will be taken out of the harddisk completely and put into RAM. This method will speed up the running of the application by 3 to 4 times! With a normal Pantium 4 chip, this PC can juggle cutting-edge graphics games, video playback, and applications like Autocad all at once, each running perfectly and smoothly.[/b] -
It won't be of much use if you use Win XP. Win XP supports 4GB of ram, Mac 16GB and Linux I heard its around 32GB of ram maxOriginally posted by chenc:I have seen this custom made computer with 32Gb of RAM and 160GB of Harddisk. After the PC boot, you can choose an application to run. This application will be taken out of the harddisk completely and put into RAM. This method will speed up the running of the application by 3 to 4 times! With a normal Pantium 4 chip, this PC can juggle cutting-edge graphics games, video playback, and applications like Autocad all at once, each running perfectly and smoothly. -
getting more RAM helps. no money to buy? no problem. try getting it from your office.
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You sure? I thought only the mother board matters. Mac can take 32GB, i am sure of it. I have seen one, in fact.Originally posted by chanff8:It won't be of much use if you use Win XP. Win XP supports 4GB of ram, Mac 16GB and Linux I heard its around 32GB of ram max
As for XP, do you know that gaming PCs like Vodoo and verlocity all have 32 GBs RAM upgrade option for their customers? -
Originally posted by chanff8:It won't be of much use if you use Win XP. Win XP supports 4GB of ram, Mac 16GB and Linux I heard its around 32GB of ram max
Which explains why some OS rocks and others not so rock. -
LOL, i am still trying to replace my XP with OSX, very hard leh, anyone know of a way other than emulations?Originally posted by Parka: Which explains why some OS rocks and others not so rock. -
sticky please
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Theres a hack to run OSX on 86x systems, but not very stable and many programs not supported. Might as well get a real oneOriginally posted by chenc:LOL, i am still trying to replace my XP with OSX, very hard leh, anyone know of a way other than emulations?
oh, and stickied -
oh I forgot, I remembered reading somewhere that says 64bit or dual-core processors can take double the amount of ram. Hardware makes a difference too.Originally posted by chenc:You sure? I thought only the mother board matters. Mac can take 32GB, i am sure of it. I have seen one, in fact.
As for XP, do you know that gaming PCs like Vodoo and verlocity all have 32 GBs RAM upgrade option for their customers? -
or any other flavor of linux or unix...personally use debian and solaris.
not only u get the max out of ur hardware...things like "raiding" ur hdd is also easy.. -
1 Question, Hope the lao jiao can help me out on this matter....
My HP CPU already has two 256 RAM inside and the brand is Samsung. Will adding another two 512 RAM of another brand like Twinmos or Kingston casue my system to cock up. The HP guy says TECHNICALLY should be ok but I like to hear from more people.
Thanks for all your help
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Different brand is ok, but different type may not be ok.Originally posted by ryangian:1 Question, Hope the lao jiao can help me out on this matter....
My HP CPU already has two 256 RAM inside and the brand is Samsung. Will adding another two 512 RAM of another brand like Twinmos or Kingston casue my system to cock up. The HP guy says TECHNICALLY should be ok but I like to hear from more people.
Thanks for all your help -
my pc is using 2 slotted 128MB..totalling 256MB..so will it take longer to swap than a single slotted 256MB ram?
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when i open the task manager, click onto the processes i cannot disable those stated system..abt 30 of them.. y is this so??
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task manager cannot end most of the programs...Originally posted by kenshin_himura:when i open the task manager, click onto the processes i cannot disable those stated system..abt 30 of them.. y is this so?? -
Those system processes are neccessary to run the computer properly and keeping it stable, although some may be uselessOriginally posted by kenshin_himura:when i open the task manager, click onto the processes i cannot disable those stated system..abt 30 of them.. y is this so??