Upgrading RAM - Kingston
Written on April 17, 2008 – 2:06 pm | by jaygaulardcom |
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Boy, what a past couple of days. I have been getting some additional hardware installed on my servers and it has been keeping me very busy with support tickets and phone calls. Let’s just say that once you make the jump to the real deal, things require more attention. There are some clear benefits that I am going to have to implement soon, such as server clustering. I am just laying the groundwork for them now. Let’s just say it’s been a learning experience.
That’s not what this post is about though…that’s just what keeps me up at night. This post is about the 2GB of Kingston RAM I purchased the other day for my desktop.
I have been doing some reading on Windows Vista lately and the common thread is that you need a mainframe to run it. Not really, but you get the picture. The good ol’ days of thinking you were king with 2GB of RAM are over. Now, 4GB is more like the norm.
Since my machine came with 2GB already installed and 4 slots to put RAM in, I decided to get 2 more. I got them from Circuit City and popped them in. I started the computer up and really didn’t notice all that much of a difference. Some things are faster and some things (like Outlook) were much faster. Outlook now flies for some reason. The RAM I got is the Kingston 1GB, DDR2, PC2-5300, 667MHz. This RAM is backwards compatible with the 533MHz already installed. After I restarted the computer again, things seemed to pick up some so now the computer runs more like my old XP machine did.
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One Response to “Upgrading RAM - Kingston”
By Hannigan on Apr 17, 2008 | Reply
Anyone getting Vista should get no less than 4GB, totally agree with you that it should be the new norm.
Since you now have 4GB of RAM, you don’t need a pagefile. Set your computer to no pagefile to ensure everything is kept in RAM for processing. You won’t really notice the difference until you have many, many programs open, but it helps open them faster.
A good trick for people that want faster pagefiles, stick the pagefile on a flash drive. It saves hard drive space and is actually a lot faster since its not rotating cylinders and its essentially a memory stick in itself. Remember, RAM runs in nanoseconds, hard drives run in milliseconds, big difference.