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one of my machines is an amd-1200 using 768megs of pc133 sdram

the machine can also take DDR pc2100

would going to a stick of 512meg DDR be any improvement
in running photoshop?

i;d just give it a try but due to all the jumpers i;d have to reset
figured i;d ask first

thanks
 
philo said:
one of my machines is an amd-1200 using 768megs of pc133 sdram

the machine can also take DDR pc2100

would going to a stick of 512meg DDR be any improvement
in running photoshop?

i;d just give it a try but due to all the jumpers i;d have to reset
figured i;d ask first

thanks
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I don't think so. The extra bandwidth of DDR is most useful is games,
video-edting tools and the likes. And benchmarks show that even in games,
PC2100 is not that much of a performace gain compared to PC133.

Halfgaar
 
one of my machines is an amd-1200 using 768megs of pc133 sdram

the machine can also take DDR pc2100

would going to a stick of 512meg DDR be any improvement
in running photoshop?

i;d just give it a try but due to all the jumpers i;d have to reset
figured i;d ask first

thanks
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It'll make the most difference if this motherboard has integrated
graphics. I would guess 20% in that case. Without integrated
graphics it'd be less of a benefit, maybe 5-10%. I'd say it's not
worthwhile unless you already had the extra memory lying around and
could also make use of the PC133 in something else, since a CPU
upgrade (if possible) would help more. Photoshop can use SSE, right?
That, on a Palomino or newer, may make the most difference. This
assumes you never exceed usage of 512MB memory. If your Photoshop
jobs and other background tasks do use over 512MB then the 768MB PC133
may still be the best performance.


Dave
 
one of my machines is an amd-1200 using 768megs of pc133 sdram

the machine can also take DDR pc2100

would going to a stick of 512meg DDR be any improvement
in running photoshop?

i;d just give it a try but due to all the jumpers i;d have to reset
figured i;d ask first

thanks
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No. For photoshop, the big performance enhancer is the AMOUNT of RAM
in the system, not the speed of it. Photo editing uses a lot of RAM.
Even if you replaced your 768megs of SDRAM with the same amount of
DDR, it's doubtful you'll see much improvement. Dropping down to a
smaller amount might make the system swap out more often, depending on
what image sizes and how many layers you're using in your editing.
 
philo said:
one of my machines is an amd-1200 using 768megs of pc133 sdram

the machine can also take DDR pc2100

would going to a stick of 512meg DDR be any improvement
in running photoshop?

i;d just give it a try but due to all the jumpers i;d have to reset
figured i;d ask first
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thank you for the replies
i think i'll leave that machine as it is then
and do a test installtion of photoshop on the XP1800+ machine i;ve
got "breadboarded" right now
 
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