[pchelpers] Re: DIMMs & SIMMs
- From: John Durham <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:22:51 +1300
Most people can get by with 128M ram. My system runs nicely with it.
This means most of the time it is not fully used. About the only time it
becomes an issue is where memory is in short supply for a while. That
shows up as a lot of extra disk activity as the swap file is used to
compensate.
If it's not doing that, you have no issue to deal with. Upgrading the
ram then becomes more a question of WANT than NEED.
In that light, where does it leave the question of slowing down by
adding SIMMs?
Donald Bieber wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I have a question regarding the use of DIMMs & SIMMs being used at the
> same time in the same computer.
>
> Usually, it is not permissable, it just won't work. Well, I have one
> here
> that the book says they can be mixed as long as they stay in seperate
> banks, etc.
>
> I've been trying several different sticks of the SDRAM and got two
> towork
> together to give it 128 mb RAM.
>
> However, that still allows one bank of the slots for SIMMs open to be
> usable, according to the manual.
>
> The speed difference between the two types are obvious, so my
> question:
> Is the increase in the "amount" of RAM worth the reduction in the
> speed
> at which the SDRAM/DIMMs work(EDO, 60ns, I think), or would I be
> better
> off with letting the computer just use the 128 mb of SDRAM at it's 9ns
>
> I'm hoping there's a technical better of one or the other, instead it
> just being a philosophical question, like the Bill Cosby routine of
> years
> ago, "Why is there air?"
>
> I really would like to know which you think is better? "More RAM" OR
> "Higher speed"
>
> cu,
> Don Bieber, The-Picture-Man
>
> PS I am a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore, I am perfect.
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