Thread: Memory question

Headache!!!!!!!


You want to see a 600mb machine with 128mb running XP with msmessanger firefox, windows media player, and limewire all running at the same time. My daughter wonders why its sloooooow.

and I wonder why I get capped



Martyn

My flash 2800 with 1.5gb of ram cr*pped it self two days ago.
The motherboard fried. My Son, a puter IT, said it was the cr*ppy AMD thingy I had.

He is putting together an Intel 2.4 with 2Gb of RAM at the moment, with latest motherboard and HDD.

I'm currently using the wifes puter, which appears to be better than the thing I had. Down side is I have no access to all my e-mail addresses, programs and files.

The world should be thankfull there are/were crappy AMD things around,,,

until about 5-6 years ago I used to laugh at Intel why would you buy one when AMD where cheaper faster and just as reliable !

Now they are much of a much-ness, one year Intel is faster one year AMD is faster. I never buy cutting edge anyhow just too much of a difference.
Now I just shrug and see which one at that moment in time gives best bang-for-buck.

Originally Posted by HangOver

If it works don't fix it !

Just because you CAN get a vista pc with XXX ram and XXX CPU doesn't mean you need to if your current one does the job. Some people feel they have to upgrade just because it's available.

I was quite surprised when I upgraded from a P3 450mhz to an AMD2100 just how much faster internet pages & my email client loaded. Now with broadband and all of the extra content (flash etc) on web pages I think it is a worthwhile exercise for the average user to upgrade periodically.

Cheers

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

The world should be thankfull there are/were crappy AMD things around,,,

Originally Posted by HangOver

until about 5-6 years ago I used to laugh at Intel why would you buy one when AMD where cheaper faster and just as reliable !

Now they are much of a much-ness, one year Intel is faster one year AMD is faster. I never buy cutting edge anyhow just too much of a difference.
Now I just shrug and see which one at that moment in time gives best bang-for-buck.

imagine where we'd be if AMD hadnt been kicking Intels **** every couple of years,,,,

talk about competition being good for business,,,,

its been good for the world as we know it,,,

Originally Posted by DiscoCam

I think it is a worthwhile exercise for the average user to upgrade periodically.
Cheers

Yes your right to a certain extent if say you are running a slow PIII etc but if you have a 512K ADSL or 56k dial up it doesn't matter if you have a 1.8 with 512mb or a quad Xeon with 100GB you wont be making your connection any quicker and lets face it I would suggest that 70%+ of what an average user does is internet n email.
But computer really it's horses for courses it depends on what you need it for. My home laptop is an M1.7 & 1GB of ram. I also have a reasonable DCore desktop decent video card and loads of disk space which I hardly ever even turn on. I just prefer the notebook and it does what I want.

What I'm trying to say is if your computer runs real slow and it annoys you upgrade, else keep your money for your Landy.
You don't need to keep up with the Jones's !

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

imagine where we'd be if AMD hadnt been kicking Intels **** every couple of years

x2

Originally Posted by HangOver

until about 5-6 years ago I used to laugh at Intel why would you buy one when AMD where cheaper faster and just as reliable !

Now they are much of a much-ness, one year Intel is faster one year AMD is faster. I never buy cutting edge anyhow just too much of a difference.
Now I just shrug and see which one at that moment in time gives best bang-for-buck.

According to my Son, the computer guru, AMD runs hotter than Intel. My last two boards (in 4 years) had AMD (cheaper), both died from heat, fan failure...

I'm hoping the so called flash intel will last longer than 2 years!