I have an old pc, 1300 mhz p4 with 256mb rambus ram. I recently got 512mb more ram (total of 768) and noticed a very mild increase in performance. I've done the paging-file, and performance options in control panel > p & m > system > advanced. Is there anything else I can do to maybe put more work on the ram and free up the cpu aside from overclocking? I'm currently running xp with photoshop, dreamweaver, flash, and vegas video open... I still have 550 megs of ram free. I'd like to put it to use... any ideas? I can still send the ram back for a refund... is that the best solution?
Too much ram, too little cpu...
- Thread starter halfofbob
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More ram will speed up app loading and make the computer feel less sluggish. There isn't much you can do to allocate more of the ram to each app. Even if you could it wouldn't help much. The cpu is the bottleneck. The programs you are running are cpu intensive. They will only use the minimum amount of ram need to run. The only real option to get better performance is to upgrade the cpu.