Hmm... I just realized MB of RAM in my system is nearly == Mhz

[TnT]

Never really thought about it, but I have a Celeron 466 and 448MB of RAM.

[Greebe]

Would you mind putting that into terms that the rest of the world can follow.

[J1NG]

Actually, I thought that the subject and sentence was quite self explanatory... *ducks and runs for the hills*

I'm sure what TnT meant was he nearly has 1MB for every 1Mhz of his processor. 448MB almost 466Mhz.

Thing is, most people don't have equal or more RAM than processor, as it doesn't boost too much in performance.

J1NG
*still running*

[Liquid Snake]

I think he's just thinking aloud.

[TnT]

lol

yeah pretty much thinking out loud while doing some other stuff and reading the forum. Basically I was thinking about people with 500Mhz comps and 128 MB of RAM or people with 1Ghz and 512 MB of RAM. The RAM to Mhz ratio is important... didn't you know that???

[J1NG]

What happens when you've got more RAM than processing power then?

J1NG
4GB RAM on a 1Ghz system is useless if you ask me... even if it is DDR PC2100...

[Marshmallowman]

I wouldn't uses 4g memory on a 1 g system, hmm.. 3 Gig of disk cache, maybe I would 8-)

But my brother who does atomic scatteringm modeling would use that and more if he could get it.

large database servers would consume that amount easily, even a smaller one would benefit form it, total database in memory with mirroring to a hardrive for backup.

my memory /mhz trend

16k /2mhz atari 400
64k /2mhz atari 600xl
2mb /8mhz atari 1040 st
4mb /8mhz atari 520 ste
8mb /66mhz pentium 66
32mb /150mhz cyrix 150+
48mb /233mhz k6
64mb /450mhz celeron 300a
128mb/450mhz celeron 300a
256mb/980mhz duron 750
512mb/1400mhz athlon 1.4

so thats a 32000x increase in memory
and 700x increase in mhz

so memory capacity has increased a lot more than mhz but memory size is starting to match mhz increase rate..

hmm...I have to much spare time

[TnT]

That makes two of us Marshmallowman! Me for starting this thread and you for really analyzing it.

I can see some fields needing as much RAM as they can get, such as the one you mentioned.

I think I just need a new processor... I'm thinking a cheap PIII, is there such a thing, to hold me over until the next generation of processors come out. Then I'll get a new mobo and processor (assuming I have a job by then).

[Jon P. Inghram]

I'm getting mighty close to the RAM > MHz mark... 768 megs, 800 MHz Celeron (but it's O/C'ed to 1050).

[Maggi]

Sometimes, I'm using our new working rig and that is 2x 1.2GHz Athlon MP on 2GB PC2100 ...

[Jon P. Inghram]

Wow... I'm afraid to know what they use a PC like that for!

[Maggi]

Nothing scary ...

we're doing visual FX for movies and TV series and run a couple of tools to generate and combine some nice pictures.

[TnT]

Yeah lots of RAM is nice for multimedia stuff, but with my processor I have to do all the encoding while I'm sleeping.