Ram: more vs. speed?

My friend has 128mb at pc2100. I want to buy him a 512 pc2700 that's on
sale. Should I take out the 2100 ram entirely?

"MustKillMoe-Wheee!" wrote:

My friend has 128mb at pc2100. I want to buy him a 512 pc2700 that's on
sale. Should I take out the 2100 ram entirely?

If he is using Windows XP, maybe not.

If he is using Windows 98 or Millennium, then he won't be able to use more
than 512MB anyway.

How much ram you can use depends on your hardware and software. The 512MB
is a lot for most Windows personal computers, in my opinion.

Good luck.

"John Doe" wrote in message
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"MustKillMoe-Wheee!" wrote:

My friend has 128mb at pc2100. I want to buy him a 512 pc2700 that's on
sale. Should I take out the 2100 ram entirely?

If he is using Windows XP, maybe not.

If he is using Windows 98 or Millennium, then he won't be able to use more
than 512MB anyway.

How much ram you can use depends on your hardware and software. The 512MB
is a lot for most Windows personal computers, in my opinion.

Good luck

Sorry for the lack of info. He's using XP Home Ed. I read somewhere that
if you use pc2100 and pc2700 ram at the same time, the 2700 ram will be
brought down to 2100 speeds.

That's why I was wondering if the extra 128 is worth it for only having 2100
speed.

"MustKillMoe-Wheee!" wrote:
"John Doe" wrote in message
"MustKillMoe-Wheee!" wrote:

My friend has 128mb at pc2100. I want to buy him a 512 pc2700 that's
on sale. Should I take out the 2100 ram entirely?

If he is using Windows XP, maybe not.
If he is using Windows 98 or Millennium, then he won't be able to use
more than 512MB anyway.
How much ram you can use depends on your hardware and software. The
512MB is a lot for most Windows personal computers, in my opinion.

Sorry for the lack of info. He's using XP Home Ed. I read somewhere
that if you use pc2100 and pc2700 ram at the same time, the 2700 ram
will be brought down to 2100 speeds. That's why I was wondering if the
extra 128 is worth it for only having 2100 speed.

Does that have something to do with whether or not you're going to buy
more memory? I would think that PC2700 on sale would be no more than
PC2100. Yes you should buy it.

Running Windows XP with 512MB or 640MB is a huge improvement over 128MB.

"MustKillMoe-Wheee!" wrote in message
...

"I read somewhere that if you use pc2100 and pc2700 ram at the same time,
the 2700 ram will be
brought down to 2100 speeds".


that is correct

Warty

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 06:57:56 GMT There I was minding my own business
and then John Doe wrote :

"MustKillMoe-Wheee!" wrote:

My friend has 128mb at pc2100. I want to buy him a 512 pc2700 that's on
sale. Should I take out the 2100 ram entirely?

If he is using Windows XP, maybe not.

If he is using Windows 98 or Millennium, then he won't be able to use more
than 512MB anyway.

********!!!!!
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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 06:57:56 GMT There I was minding my own business
and then John Doe wrote :

"MustKillMoe-Wheee!" wrote:

My friend has 128mb at pc2100. I want to buy him a 512 pc2700 that's on
sale. Should I take out the 2100 ram entirely?

If he is using Windows XP, maybe not.

If he is using Windows 98 or Millennium, then he won't be able to use more
than 512MB anyway.

********!!!!!
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and then John Doe wrote :

Troll.

You know so little.



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John Doe wrote:

Troll.

He wasn't very diplomatic about it but his point is essentially correct. =

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David Maynard wrote:

Win9x *can* work with more than 512 Meg of RAM.
The problem you are probably speaking of is the 512 meg vcache 'bug'; the
workaround for which is to limit vcache to under 512 meg in system.ini.

According to everything I've seen, your workaround for the vcache bug is
slightly off, but in the context of the original post to this discussion
group, this argument is bizarre anyway IMO.

For what it's worth.
Besides that bug, probably only in rare circumstances would anyone be
able to use more than 512MB of RAM with Windows 98 due to the fact that
resource memory is limited/fixed regardless of RAM size.