ram above 512mb get you anything?

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i am wondering about the performance gains possible for adding ram above
512mb on xp pro sp1

i have a toshiba satellite pro 6100 with 512mb ram

my primary application is microsoft visual studio .net 2003
 
I don't thing you will get any performance gains, but load in 100 .jpg and
its nice.
 
I have xp pro sp1 with 640MB ram, and am running a ram optimiser (it came
with customize xp - why waste it), but my free ram rarely drops below
300MB... so no more ram probably won't make a noticable difference, maybe
you should consider a larger hard-drive or video card instead.
 
John said:
i am wondering about the performance gains possible for adding ram
above 512mb on xp pro sp1

i have a toshiba satellite pro 6100 with 512mb ram

my primary application is microsoft visual studio .net 2003
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Using Visual Studio, it is POSSIBLE you could write an app that uses that
much memory - but if you did - well, horrible coding. heh

Doubtful most users will need much more than 512MB right now.
Video/graphics users are more likely to need the extra RAM than you.
 
I have a friend that is a professional special effects developer and editor.
The system he uses to do the majority of his work on has 2 gigs of RAM and a
256mb AGP graphics card. Of course, it also has three 120 gig hard drives,
I think they're running at 7200rpm or maybe it's 10000rpm, I don't remember,
an Athlon 2800+ (?) processor tweaked way up and some trick cooling system
for the whole shebang. For him, more RAM is much better. For you, 512mb
should be plenty. It's all relative.
 
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