Ram

[aerobahn]

Originally posted by Doppelganger


if windows uses 100mb total, i laugh at that person's comp. i didn't edit a lot of stuff yet (i only turned off 2 running part, and 3 on demand parts), and i use 38.5mb ram at most when it comes to windows. however, i do use about 80-90mb of VM for windows. i need to tweek it more, but windows will never use 100mb of ram, even at factory install.

windows ME has been known to eat up memory due to memory leaks. And those are present from the start. Windows xp can if default services and such are on take up to 100 megabytes of ram. And Xp is horrible at cleaning out useless memory. There are registry settings that can get rid of this...

[Mania6]

sorry bout this question but i was going to buy a dell dimension 4600 i think thats what it is and just wanted to know if it was good. here are the specs when i customize that crap.

2.8ghz 533 mhz front side bus
1gb dual channel ddr sdram at 333 mhz
ati radeon 9800 not the pro 128mb
120gb harddrive

I think thats it

sorry if this has been asked many times or if it is annoying thx.

[aerobahn]

How much you paying for it?

Could you afford the one with 800mhz bus

and

400mhz ram???? you'll like that one much better

[Mania6]

Heh i don't know my mom is paying for it but shes going with dell's monthly pay plan thing. The good thing is theres a special on a dell dimension 8300 free upgrade to a 512 dual chanel 400 mhz i am show and yea here are the new specs or same.

Dell Dimension 8300
2.8ghz frontside bus is 800mhz
ram up there
memory 120 or just 80
ati radeon 9800 and its for only i think 1,700 or little higher
too expensive who knows lol

Sorry if this does not make sense

[aerobahn]

GREAT comp enjoy

[Doppelganger]

aerobahn, that is basically your comp-motherboard -water cooling.... it's a good comp though, that'll beat the crap out of mine...

aerobahn, how do you do that ram clearing trick for xp? just pm me or post it here.

[Mania6]

Thx for the help aerobahn i finally picked a decent comp lol . Well better get my mom over here to get the order ready .

[aerobahn]

your welcome

Look to my next post for XP harddrive and memory optimizations