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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: videoholic on November 05, 2001, 03:52:56 PM
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If you are even thinking about getting Windows XP, make sure you have 256 meg of Ram at least. I had 128 and just added 256. WOW what a difference. The switching between users is now instant. It\'s great. Don\'t even concider going to XP without at least 256 megs of RAM.
When I had 128 it was sluggish. If my wife had IE running on her side, my side was sluggish. Let me just tell you, you won\'t be happy.
I guess that is why there are a lot of free Ram upgrades with the purchase of XP.
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im at 256 now, want 512
but rambus 800 memory = expensive
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mm, you\'re the first person I know who actually owns an RDRAM system. How u like it?
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Originally posted by mm
im at 256 now, want 512
but rambus 800 memory = expensive
yeah.. true, rambus memory is as least twice as much as the regular pc133 and slightly more exensive than DDR chips. I also want more but cannot afford it yet.
and emperrob, I have a pIII with Rdram and it doesn\'t makes a big diverence in preformance. Its not worth the money but I got free so...
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Originally posted by mm
im at 256 now, want 512
but rambus 800 memory = The Devil
heh heh heh, the ram is good. But that company deserves to DIE a slow and horrible death.
:p
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speaking of which..im kinda pc illiterate..but I know enuff to get me through. I was gonna try taking a stab building a new system since this one..well..Im just tired of it p3 550 320mb.
Im thinking a duron or tbird athlon with 528mb of DDR running XP. Any suggestions you guys have for me? Places to shop..etc. I know about pricewatch..but I prefer to get everything from the same place to save on shipping.
as for why I posted in this thread..
"yeah.. true, rambus memory is as least twice as much as the regular pc133 and slightly more exensive than DDR"
^^^^Made me remember :D
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i have wins xp on 4 x 256mb off ram
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emp rob, im running a Pentium 4 1.5 gig on an intel 850GB mobo
i love it, coupled with a geforce 3, and this sucker flies
well worth the money
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Originally posted by mm
im at 256 now, want 512
but rambus 800 memory = expensive
I just bought 256 meg for 100 bucks.. It has come way down in price!!! go to memorysuppliers.com ..
And as far as RDRam, I think it is suppose to be a lot better in certain aspects, but it\'s not being taken advantage of really in software today. I don\'t remember the specifics, but I am extrememly happy with this rdram. The difference in adding 256 megs is really unbelievable with XP.
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DDR ram right now for 256mb is only $30
You can not go wrong.
I am running XP on 256mb, but for $30 I think Im gonna have to step up to 512mb of ram
Ahhh yeah.. Big pimpin..
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Once Crucial.com (http://www.crucial.com/store/listmodule.asp?module=DDR+PC2100&Attrib=Package) starts selling 512 chips of DDR, I\'m all about it, k-dog.
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I wish I had waited till the new motherboards came out to buy my P4, but i\'m happy now. It just ended up costing me a little extra cash for the Ram. No biggie. Just a couple months ago 128 chips were over 200 bucks, so now that they are down to the 40 buck range it\'s at least getting closer to SDRam.
I remember in college buying 4-1 meg chips for 100 bucks a piece.
So I guess I saved $255,900 by waiting to buy my 256 megs of ram.
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StAnZo\'s Current Rig..
Athlon 1.333 Ghz
512 Meg DDR (266Mhz)
Ge-Force 3
SB Live!
8x8x24 CdRw
LG 8080b DVD
Cable Modem
and some other stuff
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My setup -
HP 300mhz Pavillion
28mb RAM
3.1gb hd
win98!
woohoo! Mine is so fast, it will...ummm, well, it works alot of the time.
Eric Jacob
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Originally posted by Videoholic
I just bought 256 meg for 100 bucks.. It has come way down in price!!! go to memorysuppliers.com ..
If you\'re american u got ripped off.
I can get 256meg sdram for 62 AUSTRALIAN dollers.
That\'s 31 USA dollers.
I\'m gonna buy 512meg sdram when i get my tax return. :)
I\'m currently on a celeron 533, 128meg sdram, 20gig ultra 66 hd.
Geforce 32meg DDR AGP card.
I\'m getting a TB 1.3 or 1.5 cpu, AMD mb from Gigabyte and another 512meg sdram.
I don\'t want a new Geforce card cause there\'s really nothing on pc that really needs anything more then a geforce card.
I might get another HD 50gig or something like that..
I\'ll probably go to a swap meet to buy the HD..
If i have to. I\'ll just get my brother too order the stuff for me through his supplier. (he has his own computer business)
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Originally posted by §ôµÏG®ïñD
If you\'re american u got ripped off.
I can get 256meg sdram for 62 AUSTRALIAN dollers.
That\'s 31 USA dollers.
I\'m gonna buy 512meg sdram when i get my tax return. :)
Talking RDRam fearless leader. Big difference.
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Originally posted by §ôµÏG®ïñD
If you\'re american u got ripped off.
I can get 256meg sdram for 62 AUSTRALIAN dollers.
That\'s 31 USA dollers.
We get ripped off for everything here. You can buy a candy bar for 75 cents (American :)) to a buck. That\'s getting ripped off.
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Originally posted by Videoholic
Talking RDRam fearless leader. Big difference.
ahh.. didn\'t read that..
carry on.
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I just got a pricing list from my brother.
Ok.. I can get 256meg SDR for 52 australian dollers.
I can get 256meg RDR - DDR for 100 australian dollers..
Vid.. you got ripped off.
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ugh reading this makes me want a new mobo, stupid pc133 sdr ram.
Well that settles his, now I\'ll "have" to buy a KG7-RAID along with a few hundred megs of ddr ram thanks to you guys. After reading about you people and you fast rams.
And so I can really use the ddr ram I\'ll have to get a Tbird with a 266Mhz fsb :(
*edit* I just remember that my Tbird has an AXIA core, so I already have a 266Mhz fsb, whoopdeedoo *edit*
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Windows 2000
1.2Gig T-bird (class C)
256 mb DDR 2100
Radeon LE
SBLive!5.1
cable modem
Red Hat 7
350mhz PII
128 MB SDRAM
Voodoo3500TV
cable modem
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Originally posted by §ôµÏG®ïñD
I just got a pricing list from my brother.
Ok.. I can get 256meg SDR for 52 australian dollers.
I can get 256meg RDR - DDR for 100 australian dollers..
Vid.. you got ripped off.
How did I get ripped off? I paid 95 bucks for 2-128 meg 800 RDRAM chips?
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ive got 256 mb pc800 rdram running on my 2.0 ghz p4
jelous?
dont be i hate it i wish it would die i should have got a dell
maybe it will be better when i get xp cause im running ME now
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Originally posted by jaropkls
ive got 256 mb pc800 rdram running on my 2.0 ghz p4
jelous?
dont be i hate it i wish it would die i should have got a dell
maybe it will be better when i get xp cause im running ME now
Jealous of what? 2 ghz isn\'t that much faster than a 1.3. And XP is very nice on a fast machine. Lots of stuff to get use to, but it\'s nice.
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Originally posted by Videoholic
How did I get ripped off? I paid 95 bucks for 2-128 meg 800 RDRAM chips?
Dood... That\'s $200 Australian Dollers. I can get 1 single 256 RDram. DDR sim whatever u wanna call it, for 100 aus dollers.. That\'s 50 american dollers.
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Originally posted by §ôµÏG®ïñD
Dood... That\'s $200 Australian Dollers. I can get 1 single 256 RDram. DDR sim whatever u wanna call it, for 100 aus dollers.. That\'s 50 american dollers.
Yeah, I\'ve seen them for about 70 bucks. I had to get 2 128 meg chips though. I couldn\'t find them for less than 45 bucks a piece. Sorry.
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http://www.pricewatch.com
Watch the prices fall there everyday. That is the best place to find good prices.
Ram is so damn cheap now.
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And by the way. The term ripped off implies that I was ripped off. Give me a break. I made more than 50 bucks while typing these stupid responses in this thread.
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Originally posted by kirath
http://www.pricewatch.com
Watch the prices fall there everyday. That is the best place to find good prices.
Ram is so damn cheap now.
That was where I got it from.
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Originally posted by Videoholic
I made more than 50 bucks while typing these stupid responses in this thread.
yer a cheap date, holic!
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Originally posted by Videoholic
Yeah, I\'ve seen them for about 70 bucks. I had to get 2 128 meg chips though. I couldn\'t find them for less than 45 bucks a piece. Sorry.
It must be good to pay 45 bucks for 128meg.. when i pay that for 256 :)
hehe just bugging u. :)
It\'s strange how many people wanna be your friend when u get parts at the CHEAPEST rate they can be at the time..... quite funny. :)
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I remember buying my stick of PC2100 256 MB DDR for $100 back in April. Times are bad but pc parts are very cheap. Just wait a couple days and somebody will say "Oh Soulgrind you got ripped off"
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well i just did a little 3dmark 2001 benchmark with my little pc bundle of joy and this what i got - i need to upgrade my p3 though to something better
My Benchmark
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP
DirectX Version 8.00
Mobo Manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Mobo Model TUSL2-C
CPU Intel Pentium III 1005 Mhz
FSB 133 MHz
3D Accelerator NVIDIA GeForce3
Graphics Chipset NVIDIA GeForce3
Driver Version 5.01.2001.1240
Video Memory 64 MB
Resolution 1024x768 32bit
Texture Format Compressed
FSAA Disabled
Z-Buffer Depth 24bit
Frame Buffer Double
Rendering Pipeline D3D Pure Hardware T&L
3DMark Result 4572 3D marks
Game 1 Car Chase - Low Detail 70.8 FPS
Game 1 Car Chase - High Detail 23.6 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - Low Detail 73.7 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - High Detail 37.6 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - Low Detail 78.6 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - High Detail 35.5 FPS
Game 4 Nature 20.0 FPS
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 586.9 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1321.4 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 light) 16.0 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 lights) 3.1 MTriangles/s
Environment Bump Mapping 103.0 FPS
DOT3 Bump Mapping 101.8 FPS
Vertex Shader Speed 38.2 FPS
Pixel Shader Speed 75.6 FPS
Point Sprite Speed 14.8 MSprites/s
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Originally posted by EmperorRob
I remember buying my stick of PC2100 256 MB DDR for $100 back in April. Times are bad but pc parts are very cheap. Just wait a couple days and somebody will say "Oh Soulgrind you got ripped off"
Buhahaha doubt that. I get manufactures cost prices, and buy at manufacture costs. NOT Retail prices. Why? like i said, my brother owns a pc hardware business.. I also get listing on when prices are goin to change. (there not always spot on. But there pretty close) So, I doubt i\'ll ever get ripped off.. AGAIN. (I used to pay retail) BUHAHAHAHAH
I think getting ripped off, is when someone pays say 200 dollers for a product.. when you can get it elsewhere in the SAME time for 100.. Not acouple of months later... Off course things drop in prices as they get older. DUHH But DDR is fairly new too mem.
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Hey, I also happen to buy retail, but you don\'t here me bragging about it.