Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 13:41:20 04/12/00
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On April 12, 2000 at 14:57:42, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >Shopping for a computer at Gateway (they custom configure). He suggested that >since windows 95 supported only 128 meg ram I was wasting money on requesting >256. I told him my apps software (chess programs, fritz etc) could use for sure >up to 184 meg ram on my current configured computer with 256 meg ram. This >value is what fritzy will setup when i tell it to play full strength. Is he >right ? is anything over 128 meg ram of little or no value because of windows ? >Even so is performance significantly improved by goiong to 256 meg ram ? >Thanks This is BS. I have several friends with more than 128MB RAM and they use Win98 and it works just fine. I don't know what the Gateway guy has been smoking. So Windows will work just fine with the extra memory, but your chess programs probably won't run much better. This is because you get diminishing returns from increasing the hash table size. A better option is to take the money you would have spent on the additional memory and buy a faster processor. -Tom
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