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To: Jeffery E. Forrest who wrote (9492)	11/19/1997 3:05:00 PM
From: jhild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Jeff, There is a diminishing return in adding more memory for the kinds of things you are doing. You may of course be able to have even more applications open, which would let you switch between them a little faster. And this could well be worth getting more. But as far as accessing the internet, I think that quickly becomes your bottleneck as far as accessing simultaneously on so many "threads". If you add enough, you could set up a rather large RAM disk that would give you more options. But if you have 48M now, I think absent the need to edit large graphics files or do video editing, you probably are set for the moment. You've got me thinking now about getting more memory, because I only have 32M, and while I seldom have more than 3 or 4 sessions going, I also run Metastock, Excel, and Word. I do get pauses and thrashing when I move about. For a small price, it seems worth it to get more. I have just sort of been thinking though that I will be getting a faster system with even more memory, but this may be a good way to stretch this one a bit further, while the prices erode on the 266Mhz's and beyond.

To: Jeffery E. Forrest who wrote (9492)	11/19/1997 3:30:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Jeff if you're going to get more memory you should (I think) take the one's you just got back while you still can. If you had 16meg already, that means you had two 8meg simms and added two 16meg simms. That means your spaces for simms are full...which would force you to remove two of them to increase your ram. I had 16meg in my 133mhz PC...two 8meg simms with two empty spaces (banks?), I bought two 32meg simms and stuck them in the empty banks, now I have 80meg of ram. This is for price comparing...I bought from them and was very happy, I had bought from ODP and that memory wouldn't work. micron.com Oh I almost forgot...isn't this the AST PC you bought last year? <GG>

To: Jeffery E. Forrest who wrote (9492)	11/19/1997 3:49:00 PM
From: David Lawrence	Respond to of 22053

>>Will doubling the RAM give me twice the speed again or is there a point of diminishing return? No and yes. Nonetheless, 64mb is not an over-memoried system, if there is such a thing. Don't forget to go into the Netscape options and increase your cache size.