[dba-Tech] upgrading RAM

That's why I like Crucial's System Scanner tool:  tells you what type to
use, what's in your box, what slots are free, etc.  AND guarantees the
result, usually!

I have no commercial interest in Crucial:  I'm just a coward who builds his
own, relying on other people's guarantees when possible.

Fifty bucks?  Spend it on a GB - you'll be happy you did!

John


-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Lembit Soobik
Sent: 07 April 2008 14:59
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] upgrading RAM


Susan,
if you do decide to upgrade (which I do recommend, but ofcourse its a 
function of available $s),
you need to look upin your motherboard manual what type of memory to use, 
and also, what's presently in your box and how many slots are free and 
whether you have to fill slots in pairs.
also, get memtest, s amall free memory testerand run it after upgrading, so 
you can return the memory when defective.

Lembit

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From: "Susan Harkins" <ssharkins at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" 
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] upgrading RAM


>> I recommend 1 gig at a MINIMUM for Windows XP.  XP itself uses at 
>> around 256 megs all by itself.  If you throw in Antiviruses, software 
>> firewalls, malware detectors and the like... well you get the 
>> picture.  If you multitask heavily (access, word and Office plus 
>> Outlook all open at the same
>> time) then you should have much more.
>
> =======I'm running Windows XP and honestly, with just the 256MB, 
> things aren't that bad. I've been working with this system since 02 or 
> 03 (can't remember). It just recently started to slow down. 
> Multi-tasking is limited -- I usually have Word and "something else" 
> open -- but it seldom gets busier than that.
>
> Thanks for the information.
>
> Susan H.
>
>
>>
>> If you want to run VMs then you will need more.  Depending on what 
>> you want to run inside of the VM, I would recommend at LEAST an 
>> additional 500 megs
>> /
>> VM, probably 750 Megs / VM to be on the safe side - those will be the
>> amounts that you give the VM.  Most people will not multi-task heavily
>> inside of a VM, they tend to be used mostly for testing a program against
>> a
>> specific OS, so the memory requirements usually won't be as extreme as a
>> developer's main machine.  If you use a lot of memory in the VM then
>> obviously you will need more memory for that VM, however you will quickly
>> run into a limit of how many VMs you can have going at the same time, not
>> that most of us run a lot of them simultaneously.  BTW, more cores helps
>> the
>> speed of VMs.  I would HIGHLY recommend at least a dual core and a quad
>> core
>> if you really get into the VM thing heavily.
>
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