OMG...the difference between 512mb and 1024mb ram...

[Red96TA]

I've been crusing at 512mb or ddr ram since one of my other sticks died some time back...just popped in its replacement

Is there a huge difference between 1gb and 1.5gb of ram too?

[glockjs]

more is betta like chedda...of course that damned third tag along doesnt have dual channel......

[Faustus]

I used to have 1gb on my PIII 1ghz and personally didn't notcie a huge difference. sure it was faster but it really wasn't anything to write home about. Maybe it works better on a bus faster then 133mhz.

[thecoalman]

Is there a huge difference between 1gb and 1.5gb of ram too?

Guess it would depend upon the circumstances, you see a big difference between 512 and 1024 because XP sucks up about 220 - 250, anti virus, firewall, whatever else you have running..... Not much left after all that if you have 512.

If you were working on say multiple large images at once, yes you would see the difference. Under normal circumstances probably nothing noticeable.

[rallynavvie]

More isn't always better. Unless your system is utilizing at least half of it at least half the time then you're probably getting worse performance. Likely it would only be helpful if you're running a lot of DCC/CAD/multimedia applications open all at once and going between them. Otherwise you'll probably not use more than 1GB. The problem lies in addressing all that memory for use with your system. Unless you're using registered chips than you probably won't have any issues, but usually only server boards accept registered memory.

[offline]

Actually what really happened is that you got slower.