Why don't I need More Memory?

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My system is old DDR memory computer. I got 512M DDR 400hz. I don't
know if I need more memory or not. My simple question why do I need
more memory. I don't know if I can run any
faster than this. I don't play any game so I probably don't need more
memory.
 
Red said:
My system is old DDR memory computer. I got 512M DDR 400hz. I don't
know if I need more memory or not. My simple question why do I need
more memory. I don't know if I can run any
faster than this. I don't play any game so I probably don't need more
memory.

Task Manager

http://i.technet.microsoft.com/Cc938567.FNEB09(en-us,TechNet.10).gif

Watch the Task Manager, as you use the computer during the day.
The "Peak" value, records memory usage at your peak of memory
activity. If you had, say, three programs running, maybe the
memory usage would peak, then you quit one of the programs,
the peak value would hold its value for later analysis.

Watching the graph, the memory line in the graph, will tell you
something about your usage pattern, and whether more memory
might be advised.

In that sample screenshot, whatever OS that system is running is
using 64MB or so. My WinXP might use around 200MB with no
programs running, somewhere in that vicinity. So if I had 512MB,
that would be enough for some basic programs. I could imagine
though, that if I loaded one of the older versions of Firefox,
I could easily use up the other 300MB. (My record for open
Firefox windows is around 70 or so, and lots of open windows
means lots of memory usage.)

Paul
 
My system is old DDR memory computer. I got 512M DDR 400hz. I don't
know if I need more memory or not. My simple question why do I need
more memory. I don't know if I can run any
faster than this. I don't play any game so I probably don't need more
memory.

It'll be overall smoother. Going from 512 to 1meg (DDR 400), I saw
some improvements (but I also updated apples and oragnes, the 533
Celeron D @2.6Ghz to a 800Mhz P4 @3Ghz). Same goes for a 2Meg DDR2
system, first time I've run over 1M mem. Smoother, quieter, only
nothing huge in the way of an impression to brag about, but as if less
were going on. I switched out any noisy fans, too, so it's the first
silence I've heard in ages, in the quiet clicking of HDs.

No, you probably don't need as much, if at a certain point, what
you'll feel. A subtler point among distinction, however, although one
discretely, irrevocably there, nevertheless, when 512M becomes 1 or
2G. Measurable speeds to a matrix of volumes that can be as little as
a 10% real-world or applied improvement. It's similar in a sense, to
say, that not everyone would notice going from perfectly working
spring shocks, on a perfectly working car, to air shocks with
adjustable, inflatable inlets. Bearing in mind, you know, we are a
nation of gear freaks, of course, amidst those whom, by in large,
first comprised an adaptation to building "garage computers" at an
American homefront of PC popularity, shortly following a regulated
demise of $4K, 6-second muscle cars.
 
Red said:
My system is old DDR memory computer. I got 512M DDR 400Mhz. I don't
know if I need more memory or not. My simple question why do I need
more memory. I don't know if I can run any
faster than this. I don't play any game so I probably don't need more
memory.

What are you running? Windows XP 32-bit usually runs well with 512M
but sometimes becomes slightly but noticeably better with 1G. OTOH 32-
bit Vista and 7 improve quite a bit by going from 1G to 2G.
 
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