is 512 MB of RAM too much??

[jaboo]

Hi all,

Just had a quick question for all of you. I have an Athlon Socket A-Tbird 1Ghz puter I built. I am using a Gigabyte 7ZX-1 Mobo and no overclocking. This thing runs great. Beats the **** outta by old P3 I gave to my mom. Anyway, I have been using 256 MB of CASS2 Crucial RAM for about 5 months now. RAM price have been dropping like crazy so I picked up another 256 MB of CASS2 Crucial RAM for under 70 bucks (total of 512 MB now). Anyway, I had to adjust the vcache setting in Win 98 SE to avoid potential problems with that much RAM. I do alot of digital photography and audio CD-burning. I have notice an improvement in speed in both and I do play alot of online flight SIM gaming (Novalogic's F16 MRF).

Anyway, my question is do you guys think 512 MB of RAM is too much. I plan on upgrading to Win XP next spring once all of the bugs and updates are available and have much better driver support for all of my peripherals.? Just curious.

[Bsdboy]

No it's not too much I have 512 but any more with Win 98 could be a problem and I'm sure XP will like it.

Bsdboy

[Yar1182]

You don't see signicant gains in win9x after 128. If your running win2k, nt, xp, linux more ram means mo' faster.

[Nighthawk]

Since it's so cheap, I'd say the more the merrier, I guess.

I've got 512mb on my now W2k machine. I run with about 360-380 free. I could be easily getting by with 256. I don't know what you're doing so I can't talk about what you will currently experience.

However, in the future, the extra RAM will be welcome. I remember thinking at one time that 32MB was all that you could ever want in a computer, 64 was a lot, and 128 was amazing. That was 2-3 years ago.

[flakgordon]

the only time you can have too much ram, is when you have more dimms than sockets

[dragonB]

Why would more than 512mb cause problems in Win98? Can it not address that much or something?
Anyway, my motto is "You can never have too much ram."
Finally convinced my dad to buy a 128 to put him at 196. He complained that switching between IE, and 2 powerpoint apps was slow. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
dragonB

[DemonKnight]

Windows98 was supposed to be able to handle more ram than 512 but somthing didnt get done correctly and it kinda chokes with more than 512.

[Bsdboy]

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum9/HTML/004334.html

Bsdboy

[diesel8859]

I running 896 megs on mine with 98 FE and have had no problems. When doing high end photos in adobe shop, the more, the merrier.

[jaboo]

Thanks everyone for your replies. This is one of the better tech boards I have come across. Thx again

[Brangwen]

I've been running with 512MB SDRAM for several months with Win98se and have another stick of 256MB I'm going to install. Hmm... I hope the "fix" supplied by MS resolves any problems or I may be switching over to different OS http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

Brangwen http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif