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Re: Computer Memory usage?

By: micro in POPE IV | Recommend this post (0)
Sun, 09 Oct 16 8:30 PM | 52 view(s)
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ZIm

windows 98 S.E. was a great system, small and it worked.
IF ya had a newer MOBO that could put a newer quad core or even a hyperthreaded I-5 or I-7 on it, it would be a beast.
A blur from cold start to desktop.

Yes sir, I have been building machines since windows first came out as well also. I know my windows 5. was slower than crap with 512 MB of ram in it. It improved after I changed motherboards and had 2 GB of memory in it...

It is not a matter of will it work with less.

It's a matter of SPEED, like in INSTANT. No wait.

That is what I am referring to. Yes, I had XP work on as little 256 MB as well. SLower than a east german Trabant running on 2 cylinders in snow on bald tires.

Anyway, all of my clients I rebuilt or did computer work for have machines that are FAST with plenty of memory to keep them that way.

SO we BOTH have experiences dating back to windows 3.1 and even before with Cobal and Fortran programming.

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Re: Computer Memory usage?
By: Zimbler0 in POPE IV
Sun, 09 Oct 16 8:18 PM 		Msg. 11913 of 47202

Micro,
Trust me on this, I have a LOT of experience with
windows based machines.

We started with Windows 3.1 . . .
When we went to computer networks it was Windows 95.
(I remember running around with a stack of floppy
disks installing the beast.) Then it was upgrade them
all to Windows 98. With a CD.

Finally we went to XP.
We were also running Microsoft Office. Access databases
became the order of the day.

General office work, XP, 500 Megs of RAM was adequate.
Of course, once I received a CAD file from a vendor,
and I needed to convert it into Visio . . . I 'tested'
a program which did the job but it too a LONG time for
it to make the conversion.

Now, at work, we are running Windows 7. Mostly with
just one Gig of RAM. Again, mostly generic office
type work and it is quite adequate. (We are also
running 32 bit Windows.)

If one is an engineer running high end CAD stuff . . .
Or if one is a serious gamer . . .
One would need the most RAM one could get with the
fastest most powerful processor.

By the way, the machine I am typing this on has a
quad core 3.2 Gigahertz processor. Running Windows 10
with four Gigabytes of RAM. It's a beast.

My other machine was a beast when I built it up . . .
It runs XP and, later today when I turn it on, I'll
let you know what it has under the hood. It is also
sitting on top of an antique windows 98 machine that
hasn't been turned on
in years.

Zim.

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