[ppug] Re: Speed Contest - second attempt

At 03:59 PM 12/02/2004, Norsaint wrote:
>Someone asked before, what has the most effect speeding it up megahertz or 
>ram?
>Hasn't been an answer yet buyt I'd like to know as well.  Obviously a 
>combination of both I guess.
>@What would be quicker  1600 mhz 800meg ram or
>2.4 Mhz and 256 ram?
Hi Norsaint,

In the above scenario, I would go the 1600Mhz 800Mb RAM every single 
time.......  You need a minimum amount of RAM... below that, and it doesn't 
matter what speed your processor is.. it will be too slow for most things 
cos your computer will spend most of it's time swapping... (swapping is a 
computer term meaning that the computer puts bits of memory it doesn't need 
to disk and reads in the other bits of memory that it does need from disk).

Once you have that minimum amount of RAM, then you can start to increase 
the processor speed.... With Windoze, I reckon you need at least 512Mb of 
RAM... IGb would be better, and my next computer is going to have 2GB of RAM.

The other thing that I think will be affecting the speed, particularly of 
Price Predictor tests is disk speed.... PPP is disk intensive, and I would 
suggest that it would spend a fair portion of it's time reading files from 
disk... I think that's why my computer (a P3) fares so well against the 
others, as I have two disks, and one is quite fast with a nice big 
cache.... and it has been organised correctly for speed.

I don't really know, but I think the latest file system formats (ie the XP 
one versus the old Win98 one) will also be faster.... unfortunately my 
systems are organised under the old Win98 formats.....

Cheers,
Chris.  

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