computer speed

[saint]

ihave a p11 450 with 64megs so your saying more ram ill see a big difference

[LJJones]

A couple of years ago when I upgraded my old P75 to a P120, there whas hardly any diffrence, and the P120 cost me an absolute fortune and I was really disapointed. But when I upgraded the ram from 8mb to 24mb I couldnt believe the difference, It was amazing. Its because with more ram you dont have to depend so much on your HDD speed for the swap file so its faster.
Even today with my 475 K6-2 O/C to 523.85, theres hardly a noticable difference so practically no point in me o/c to this. So as Warthog said above, you wont see a big diference with a small cpu upgrade, but more ram will definatley improve speed. Win98 can only handle 192mb correctly, any more and it starts having panic attacks, so more ram than this in a Win98 machine will probably slow it down.

[saint]

i thank you both i will get more ram thanks

[saint]

what makes your computer go faster is it the coprocesser or is it your memory

[Warthog]

It depends how big of an upgrad you're going to do. In my experience, small jumps in processor speed (50mhz - 75mhz or so) don't make hardly any difference in speed. When I upgraded from 64mb RAM to 192mb RAM there was a tremendous difference. I've heard almost as much of a speed increase will happen with a jump from 64 to 128 because of how Win98 handles memory. Another big speed increase happened with me with a jump from 32 to 64.

Warthog