Used Ram Level

Well after Christmas I might buy one of these
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814143071

Hopefully my mom lets me get it

The BFG cards got off to a bad start, but recently, they've been getting a lot of praise.

Doesn't seem like a bad idea to me.

-Dave

I love Albatron cards. Solid brand never failed me all ways honor warranties no questions asked. And also they try and keep prices down by just having the card, cables and the manual in the box.

I got iTunes, word and two Firefox windows open an I using 440mb.

What programs are open is only half the equasion. There can be %100 utilization from back ground tasks(generally not the case unless you have a nasty virus).

Durrock, while playing a game, you want full utilization. If there is memory thats not being used, then your game isnt using it either.

Here's what I have being used.

Wow, that's a lot of ****.

You can probably close about %90 of that. Just don't close down any svhost.exe or explorer.exe and you'll be fine. One of those will be your sound card, (under SYSTEM) but trial and error will let you know which one that is-cos your sound card won't work when you stop it! If you can't shut it down, the computer won't let you. Shut down something vital, and you'll get the 60 sec timer, in which case hit up command prompt and type in:

Code:

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shutdown -a

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to stop it.

-Dave

I know what most of it is, and most of it I'll keep running.

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Originally Posted by DaveW

The extra RAM will give you a HUGE performance increase in gaming, whether it's on the Graphics card or the motherboard. In my opinion RAM upgrades always give you the best 'bang per buck' when upgrading an old PC-when someone asks "Hey, how can i make my Pentium II run better? I always reply with: Get some more RAM."

-Dave

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That's solid advice, especially when making the jump from 1gig to 2. Xp and its native processes take up a good chunk of a gig, if it isn't running barebones. Add in the other processes that are constantly going on a machine and it isn't hard to believe that your system is using nearly 500 mb at idle. Throw in a high-end game like Oblivion and you're going to be slowing down quite a bit.

It is pretty amazing how much of an improvement you can get going ot 2 gigs. EVen games like WoW, which are hardly graphics powerhouses, really notice a solid performance upgrade - places like Ironforge can really use up active memory.

Trust me on this one - I just had one of my one-gig sticks die on me, and it has been a real pain in the arse slowing back down to one-gig size, especially considering how many applications I tend to run at the same time when I'm working on a project.

Does Linux have a windows task manager program?

I need to know which Linux first, I'm pretty sure Ubuntu does not. however, I bet you there is a utility for it.