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    Too much Memory? NOT

    I'm putting together a new system and and the mother board states it can handle 3 gigs of memory using DDR333. Because the price of 512 chips are about 50$, I was going to add 1.5 gig to the motherboard. I'm running Windows 2000. I realize that with my gaming and various applications, I will probably not use more than 512 RAM or so. What else can I do with the memory in my machine. A RAMDISK? Virtual RAM? What else can I do with it. Can the Video or other things (Internet Cache) be moved to RAM for quicker access?

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    Why? Are you in a competition with someone?
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    You could make a larger AGP aperture and could get rid of the windows pagefile. I really doubt that you NEED that much RAM save your money, I say go for 1gig instead and save $50 for elsewhere.

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    i think its possible to load windows into ram to improve performance
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    Go to a tweak site like www.3dspotlight.com and lookit there OS tweaks, in there are a number of OS sharpening tricks that all require RAM usage, in reality though 1gb will do

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    3gig-Id like. Run a Virual mem drive! Load windows files or yer fav. game files into it-what laod times.? hehe! Vice city would run great!

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    vice city runs great on mine, 1GiG, even though it's pc133 :P but it runs sweet

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    i have 2 Gig, and i can say i'm the happiest PC user on earth

    cuz most people hates their PC cuz is slow, or crash, or well blame in on Mickeysoft

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    Hi
    I agree with AG more ram the better especially with slow machines

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    A well-managed 256 stick is all you need for any current games, but a gig would always be nice to have.
    This is where my signature would go if I wasn't so lazy.

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    more RAM better on slow machines, YES

    1.5 gig ram and slow machine NOT in same catagory

    have 1 gig RAM in mine and cant really see a good way to use it. can go as high as 3 gig but WHY?

    running w2k sp3. it uses about 200 MB. maybe photoshop or paintshop use extra memory well but not o/s. games, maybe, i dont really play many

    tried ram drives and loading temp files in extra ram, succeeded in killing machine, required restoring ghost image

    am happy with what i have ( for now )

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    The LESS RAM the better!

    Haha, just had to sound different than the words of wisdom.

    Actually, I'm just trying to get to 150 posts for a custom avatar!

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    1Gig is plenty. I tried using it all and it just wont work. No page file either

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