win98 max. ram?
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- petzi
is 1 GB ok?
- ********0
on Win 98? you sure you don't mean the HD my friend??
;)
- sp0
Actually, it won't matter. Older OS's like 95/98 don't recognize ram higher than 512 I believe, and even then preformance difference is minute from 512.
I'm not even sure it will care if it has 512.
There is much more to a well tuned system than a lot of RAM.
Why are you still using 98?
- sp0
Besides that, even if 98 does recognize the use of all 1 gig of RAM, Windows (especially) 98 is famous for simply starting new processes for the OS...
All Windows environments do that.
I had 512 in my system when I bought it. I look at RAM use and it's about 30% (around standard system use for Win). I upgraded to 768 and it still shows between 30-35% memory use.
Windows kills processes used to run the system based on the amount of resources you have available. The more ram just means that Windows can run more of it's environment processes.
That's why I use Linux now.
:)
- petzi0
thank u guys! it's just my boss who tries to set up a pecee next to me. his head turns more red from sec. to sec. ;-)
i use osx
- jon_0
be careful putting that much ram into a win98 machine, i've known machines set up like that become very unstable with the ram, sometimes claiming that there is no ram at all.
this was on a machine with a top of the range asus motherboard + major brandname ram