From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 5 12:40:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (procyon-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B5AC37B408 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:40:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lilith (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA01692; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 21:40:37 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <018c01c13642$a60d1060$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> From: "Siegbert Baude" To: "Trevin Chow" Cc: References: <20010904235605.B1654-100000@benny.geektank.org> <0109050617260S.44697@chip.wiegand.org> Subject: Re: How much RAM to upgrade to? Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 21:40:40 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I'm thinking about upgrading my machine with some more RAM considering the > > insanely low prices. > > > > My current setup is: > > > > Celeron 300A, 64MB RAM, 15GB HD, soon to be adding an 80GB HD > > > > I'm wondering how much RAM is going to be in the "sweet spot" for me. I > > know there isn't a definitive answer and probably more is better, but I'm > > wondering about diminishing returns of adding too much ram. I mean, my > > mother supports up to 768MB of RAM, but going that high seems a bit > > insane. I'm also wondering about the balance between buying lots of > > RAM or some RAM and a faster CPU (like going to a P2 400mhz). Any > > info/opinions appreciated. > > The cpu change is only worth while if the change is VERY big, not so sure > you'll see as much differance between the cpu's you mention. I considered > moving from K6-2/350 to Celeron 350, but found the ram made a bigger > differance than the cpu change would have. Yes, but this is a different thing. The K6-2/350 uses FSB100 whereas the Celeron 350 uses FSB66. So you actually decrease the speed of RAM on this way. The Celeron 350 -> P2 400 increases both RAM and Processor power. So the effect would be significant on RAM intensive operations. Of course you could also go to the new Celeron >800MHz as they also use FSB100. This only, if your motherboard supports the low core voltage needed. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message