New Ram Arrives Today.

[New Horizon]

Finally!! I can get back into the swing of things. Ever since a stick of my ram died, running windows server 2003 on 256 megs of ram has sucked. Can't really do much of anything. Today though, my two 512 meg sticks arrive and I'll finally be in the 1 gig club. Ahhh, the simple pleasures.

[sparhawk]

Good!

[oDDity]

I've 1500 and it still isn't enough at times. Makes me wonder how you used to be content with 32 on my first computer when I didn't know any better.

I thouhgt now that we have 64 bit processors we 'd be seeing MBs that can hold 10-20 -30 + gigs of ram. I thought that was the main point of 64 bit processors, that they could adress a ridiculous amount of RAM.

[Fingernail]

I still have 512Mb only, but will probably upgrade sometime within a year, as next-gen games start appearing a bit more. I can still run stuff well, but it's loading times that suffer most.

[New Horizon]

I still have 512Mb only, but will probably upgrade sometime within a year, as next-gen games start appearing a bit more. I can still run stuff well, but it's loading times that suffer most.

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I was pretty happy with my 512. Everything seemed to run just fine. I figured that I might as well spring for two new sticks of 512, rather than a single 256. I can start saving for a new Vid Card next.

[sparhawk]

IMO 2x512 is better then 1x256.

[New Horizon]

IMO 2x512 is better then 1x256.

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Absolutely, I meant that I had considered just getting an extra stick of 256 to go with the remaining stick that I had.

[New Horizon]

Zip, Zap, Zoom. Just installed the new ram. Testing it out as we speak.

[obscurus]

I'm planning to pop another gig in my machine in a few weeks, to max out my mobo at 2GB... So far the 64 bit mobos I have seen only take up to 4GB... not exactly an amazing increase, but I'm sure 4GB would be quite expensive enough and fairly superfluous for most things at the moment (though I do a few things that would fill it up fast enough)... Once you go to a gig you'll wonder how you managed with less before... Have fun

[modetwo]

Why on earth do you run windows server 2003 on your computer?

[New Horizon]

Why on earth do you run windows server 2003 on your computer?

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It's configured as a desktop of course but to answer your question, it's the best OS Microsoft has put out to date. It boots faster than XP, and is more stable. I don't know how it's possible but server 2003 ran faster on my wifes 600 mhz celeron than XP did. I also used XP pro for well over a year but after using Server 2003, I would never go back. Though it's a different branch of the NT line than XP, it still runs everything perfectly. I have all the Thief games, Doom 3 and other games all running flawlessly. Microsofts next version of windows was even built off of 2003 due to its stability.