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Strategies & Market Trends : Zeev's Turnips - No Politics -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (24837)	1/28/2002 12:23:17 AM
From: Jdaasoc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99280

TSM and rest of semis will do pretty good if Windows XP sells well as seen from my viewpoint. Booting up Windows XP with 128 MB of DRAM leaves you with 25 MB free for applications; not very realistic situation unless you just web browse and send email. Adding another 128 MB of memory, bumps the free memory value up to 128 MB; a value that MS Office minimally likes. I still wondering where that 30 MB went to in OS when I added 2nd 128 stick of memory. I would have to believe that Intel Application Accelerator grabs it. IAA appears to be nothing more than old MSDOS disk cache system extension on steroids which may take 64 MB of memory out of 256 MB for disk caching which adds to system memory bloat. It seems that all that most of apparent speed increases is due to making almost every possible applet in OS RAM resident. It seems that multimedia types just can't wait a second ot two for video and audio applets to load form disk. They got to have them ready ASAP. These tests were on 1.6 GHz 256 KB cache P4 SDRAM system. I will try to see how much faster a overclocked 2.2 GHz Northwood P4, 512 KB system cache, using DDR or RDRAM is to see if Intel has finally caught up to Athlon MP platform. I expect AMD to retake desktop speed title when they join Intel at 0.13 mu. PS They have neat DirectX test in accessories/system tools/system Information applet under tools pulldown menu.