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To: mr.mark who wrote (13412)	11/25/2000 2:16:32 PM
From: Magnatizer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110645

mark You've raised my curiosity. I will go ahead and get the upgrade and we can use my experience as a test. ht Mag

To: mr.mark who wrote (13412)	11/25/2000 2:25:57 PM
From: Magnatizer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110645

I need some assistance in selecting the proper RAM... crucial.com I have the correct mobo entered but I do not know how to select from the different 128 sticks. ht Mag

To: mr.mark who wrote (13412)	11/25/2000 3:00:59 PM
From: Ed Forrest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110645

Mark Here is what Fred Langa has to say about memory.I know you and I and many others are readers of his. Ed langa.com

To: mr.mark who wrote (13412)	11/25/2000 6:19:11 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110645

Oh no! I've been misunderstood yet again. Of course adding memory will improve the performance of any process where memory is the bottleneck. In fact, Windows does a reasonable job of using all it finds: Disk buffers, application 'roominess', and the reduction or elimination of swapping. What I was addressing was the fixed-sized chunk of memory which is measured by Windows Resource Meter, a utility which displays a bar graph resembling a beaker of green stuff in SysTray. The memory allocated to this use cannot be expanded no matter how much memory you have available. I consider this a basic design shortcoming, and I guess Microsoft does too, since Win NT and 2000 allows this area to expand when needed, eliminating the problem. Right click the 'green beaker' and you'll be given a chance to see more detail. Again, you'll be presented with a bar graph and a percentage. And again, you'd be wise not to let these numbers fall to low values. So to try for clarity, I was only addressing the effects of additional system memory on the values displayed by the little green beaker, and not overall performance. Further information on the matter is provided by a number of sites explaining GDI, or Graphic Device Interface. Nearly all provide much more understandable and complete explanations. Cheers, PW.