re: DDRAM What can Win98 accept?
Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 10:29 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Keith Stanier wrote:
|gewg[...]As least he admits this now
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Keith is having memory failure (wetware).
Perhaps he is confusing me with someone else.
Since before Win9x was EoL'd
(over 4 years ago now),
I have been referencing the AXCEL216 page and its 1024MB workaround.
http://google.com/search?q=site:annoyances.org+MaxPhysPage+mdgx+gewg_
|Now don't just think sticking more memory in will make things run better.
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Yup. In a blog I like, this has been a recurrent theme recently.
http://google.com/search?q=site:kmandla.wordpress.com+"more.memory"+myth...
(That guy uses e.g. Pentium I hardware with 32MB of RAM.
Obviously, he doesn't run M$'s junk on such systems;
actually, he has found that there is no task he does that requires M$ products.)
|It depends on the chip speed you have in or what your motherboard spec states.
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Actually, whether *the amount* of RAM will help
depends on whether you are paging out to your Swap Partition/File (aka Virtual Memory).
|you can get [RAM with lower latency]
|but don't think that faster chips will make it run faster
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Bingo!
The processor speed and the speed of the front side bus could be tighter bottlenecks.
|it may even run slower
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Typically, when that happens
it's because of mixing and matching memory modules of *different* speeds.
If you keep all the DIMMs the same speed, faster RAM wouldn't slow things down
(though, again, it won't necessarily be faster either).
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